World War II
After WWII broke out Newsome served as Chair of Appeals Board 2, State of Alabama Selective Service System. He was in that position in 1942-1943. He was elected on the Democratic ticket to the Seventy-eighth Congress in November 1942. He served from 3 January 1943 until 3 January 1945, having made an unsuccessful bid for re-election in November 1944.
Newsome served as president of Associated Industries of Alabama (1953–1955). He also served as a director of Exchange Security Bank, and Alabama Gas Corporation.
Newsome died in Birmingham, Alabama on 10 November 1961. He was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in that city.
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