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Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Robert Stell Heflin (1815-1901) —
of Wedowee, Randolph
County, Ala.
Born near Madison, Morgan
County, Ga., April
15, 1815.
Republican. Member of Georgia
state senate, 1840; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1849; member of Alabama
state senate, 1860; state court judge in Alabama, 1865; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1869-71; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1880.
Slaveowner.
Died January
24, 1901 (age 85 years, 284
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Wedowee, Ala.
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James Thomas Heflin (1869-1951) —
also known as J. Thomas Heflin —
of Lafayette, Chambers
County, Ala.
Born in Louina, Randolph
County, Ala., April 9,
1869.
Lawyer;
mayor of Lafayette, Ala., 1893-94; member of Alabama
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1896-1902; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1897-1900; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901; secretary
of state of Alabama, 1903-04; resigned 1904; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 5th District, 1904-20; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1908;
speaker, 1912;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1920-31; defeated (Independent), 1930.
Died April
22, 1951 (age 82 years, 13
days).
Interment at Lafayette
Cemetery, Lafayette, Ala.
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Howell Thomas Heflin (1921-2005) —
also known as Howell T. Heflin —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.
Born in Poulan, Worth
County, Ga., June 19,
1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer; chief
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1971-77; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1979-97; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1996.
Methodist.
Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha.
Died in Sheffield, Colbert
County, Ala., March
29, 2005 (age 83 years, 283
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Ala.; statue at Colbert
County Courthouse Grounds, Tuscumbia, Ala.
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