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Herschel Whitfield Arant (1887-1941) —
also known as Herschel W. Arant —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Church Hill, Tallapoosa
County, Ala., July 18,
1887.
Son of William Jackson Arant and Villulia (Akin) Arant.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Order of the
Coif; Rotary.
Died, from a kidney
ailment, in a hospital
at Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, January
14, 1941 (age 53 years, 180
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Arrington, Jr. (b. 1943) —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala., October
19, 1943.
Democrat. University professor; mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1979-85; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Xi; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Still living as of 1996.
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Karon O. Bowdre (b. 1955) —
of Alabama.
Born in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., 1955.
Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, 2001-.
Female.
Still living as of 2002.
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John Glen Browder (b. 1943) —
also known as Glen Browder —
of Jacksonville, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Sumter, Sumter
County, S.C., January
15, 1943.
Democrat. University professor; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1983-87; secretary of
state of Alabama, 1987-89; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1989-97; candidate in
primary for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1996; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1996.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president,
Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college professor; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Angela Yvonne Davis (b. 1944) —
also known as Angela Davis —
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., January
26, 1944.
Daughter of Sallye E. Davis.
Communist. Following a violent escape
attempt at the Marin County (California) Hall of Justice, August
7, 1970, in which several people were killed,
she was implicated
as an accomplice and fled;
later arrested
in New York, tried,
and acquitted in 1972; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1980, 1984; during the Communist
coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, she supported Gorbachev, and
subsequently left the Communist Party; university professor.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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John Cooper Godbold (b. 1920) —
also known as John C. Godbold —
Born in Alabama, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; author; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1966-81; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-86; took senior
status 1986.
Still living as of 2006.
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Relatives:
Married to Betty Showalter. |
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John Mason Martin (1837-1898) —
of Alabama.
Born in Athens, Limestone
County, Ala., January
20, 1837.
Son of Joshua
Lanier Martin.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate, 1871-76; law professor; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1885-87.
Died in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., June 16,
1898 (age 61 years, 147
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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Condoleezza Rice (b. 1954) —
also known as Condi Rice; "Guru";
"The Steel Magnolia" —
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., November
14, 1954.
Daughter of John Wesley Rice, Jr. (1923-2000) and Angelena (Ray) Rice
(1924-1985).
Republican. University professor; U.S. National Security
Advisor, 2001-05; U.S.
Secretary of State, 2005-.
Female.
Presbyterian.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Ormond Somerville (b. 1868) —
of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., November
26, 1868.
Son of Henderson Middleton Somerville (1837-1915) and Cornelia Banks
(Harris) Somerville.
Lawyer;
Tuscaloosa
County Solicitor, 1891-92; law professor; associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1911.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma Nu.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henderson Middleton Somerville (1837-1915) and Cornelia Banks
(Harris) Somerville; married, September
14, 1892, to Kate Walter (died 1895); married, December
22, 1898, to Bessie Randolph Edgar. |
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Charles Tait (1768-1835) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.; Wilcox
County, Ala.
Born near Hanover, Hanover
County, Va., February
1, 1768.
Democrat. College professor; lawyer;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1803-09; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1809-19; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1820-26.
Died near Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., October
7, 1835 (age 67 years, 248
days).
Interment at Dry
Forks Cemetery, Camden, Ala.
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Mark Thornton (b. 1960) —
of Auburn, Lee
County, Ala.
Born in Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y., June 7,
1960.
Libertarian. Economist;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1984; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1996; university professor.
The first
person to win election in Alabama on the Libertarian Party ticket, as
Lee County Constable in 1988.
Still living as of 2002.
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Clement Clay Torbert, Jr. (b. 1929) —
also known as Bo Torbert —
of Opelika, Lee
County, Ala.
Born in Opelika, Lee
County, Ala., August
31, 1929.
Son of Clement Clay Torbert, Sr. and Lynda (Meadows) Torbert.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
law professor; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1958-62; member of Alabama
state senate, 1966-77; chief
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1977-89.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Still living as of 2006.
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Relatives:
Married to Gene Hurt. |
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