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Melba Till Allen (1933-1989) —
also known as Melba Till —
of Hope Hull, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Grady, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Marbury, Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Friendship Community, Butler
County, Ala., March 3,
1933.
Daughter of Samuel Ben Till and Gertrude (Johnson) Till.
Democrat. Alabama
state auditor, 1967-75; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1972; Alabama
state treasurer, 1975-78; Convicted
in 1978 of using her position as state treasurer to obtain bank
loans to build a theme park, and for failing
to disclose her personal finances; she denied any wrongdoing; sentenced
to six years in jail, but
spent most of her sentence working as a bookkeeper in a retirement
home.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order of the Eastern Star.
Died, of cancer, in
Baptist Medical
Center, Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., October
20, 1989 (age 56 years, 231
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Agnes Beahn Baggett (1905-1992) —
also known as Agnes Baggett; Agnes Beahn —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., April 9,
1905.
Daughter of John Richard Beahn and Leila Belle (Thomason) Beahn.
Democrat. Secretary of
state of Alabama, 1951-55, 1963-67, 1975-79; Alabama
state auditor, 1955-59; Alabama
state treasurer, 1959-63, 1967-75; Presidential Elector for
Alabama, 1968.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary; Order of the Eastern Star; Altrusa.
Died December
15, 1992 (age 87 years, 250
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank William Boykin (1885-1969) —
also known as Frank W. Boykin —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw
County, Ala., February
21, 1885.
Son of James Clark Boykin and Glo Emenia (Ainsworth) Boykin.
Democrat. Manufacturer
of railway crossties; lumber and
timber business; shipbuilder;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1935-63; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the Eastern Star; Shriners;
Elks; Woodmen;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 12,
1969 (age 84 years, 19
days).
Interment at Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Cora M. Brown (1914-1972) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Bessemer, Jefferson
County, Ala., April 19,
1914.
Democrat. Social
worker; police
officer; member of Michigan
state senate, 1953-56 (2nd District 1953-54, 3rd District
1955-56); defeated in primary, 1950, 1951; candidate in primary for
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1956.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Kappa Alpha; Order of the Eastern Star.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
17, 1972 (age 58 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) —
also known as Carl Elliott —
of Jasper, Walker
County, Ala.
Born in Vina, Franklin
County, Ala., December
20, 1913.
Son of George W. Elliott and Lenora (Massey) Elliott.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Alabama
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1942-50; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1949-65 (7th District 1949-63,
at-large 1963-65); candidate in primary for Governor of
Alabama, 1966; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1972.
Methodist.
Member, Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Amvets; Disabled
American Veterans; Lions; Freemasons;
Order of the Eastern Star; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen.
Died January
5, 1999 (age 85 years, 16
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
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C. Virginia Fields (b. 1946) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., August 4,
1946.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1998-; candidate in primary for
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2005.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Kappa Alpha; Urban
League; Order of the Eastern Star.
Still living as of 2008.
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Kenneth Allison Roberts (1912-1989) —
also known as Kenneth A. Roberts —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Piedmont, Calhoun
County, Ala., November
1, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate; elected 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1951-65 (4th District 1951-63,
at-large 1963-65); defeated, 1964; shot and
wounded in an attack on the U.S. House by Puerto Rican
nationalists, 1954.
Baptist.
Member, Lions; Freemasons;
Order of the Eastern Star; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Potomac, Montgomery
County, Md., May 9,
1989 (age 76 years, 189
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Corley Wallace, Jr. (1919-1998) —
also known as George C. Wallace —
of Clayton, Barbour
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Clio, Barbour
County, Ala., August
25, 1919.
Son of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1947-53; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alabama, 1948
(alternate), 1956;
circuit judge in Alabama, 1953-58; Governor of
Alabama, 1963-67, 1971-72, 1972-79, 1983-87; defeated in
Democratic primary, 1958; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1964,
1972,
1976;
American Independent candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Order of the Eastern Star; Shriners;
Moose;
Elks; Woodmen;
Civitan;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans.
Worked as a professional boxer in
the late 1930s. While campaigning in Maryland on May 15, 1972, was shot
by Arthur Bremer; the injury paralyzed
both legs. Along with Ohio's James
A. Rhodes, he was the longest serving state governor in U.S.
history.
Died in Jackson Hospital,
Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., September
13, 1998 (age 79 years, 19
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of George C. Wallace and Mozell (Smith) Wallace; married, May 21,
1943, to Lurleen
Burns; married, June 4,
1971, to Cornelia Ellis Snively (divorced 1978; niece of James
Elisha Folsom; first cousin of James
Elisha Folsom, Jr.); married 1981 to Lisa
Taylor (divorced 1987); father of George
C. Wallace, Jr.. See Wallace-Folsom
family of Alabama. |
| | | Cross-reference: Seybourn
H. Lynne |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about George C. Wallace: Stephan
Lesher, George
Wallace : American Populist — Dan T. Carter, The
Politics of Rage : George Wallace, the Origins of the New
Conservatism, and the Transformation of American
Politics — Lloyd Rohler, George
Wallace : Conservative Populist |
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