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Entertainment Industry Politicians in Alabama

  Rose Agnes Barnes (b. 1910) — also known as Rose Agnes Langford; Mrs. Ernest A. Barnes — of Albany, Clinton County, Ky. Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Ala., August 5, 1910. Republican. School teacher; model; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1936. Female. Methodist. Member, American Legion Auxiliary. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Daughter of Edward Langford and Alma (Coleman) Langford; married, January 22, 1931, to Ernest A. Barnes.
  Nat King Cole (1919-1965) — also known as Nathaniel Adams Coles — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., March 17, 1919. Singer; musician; actor; honored guest, Republican National Convention, 1956 ; honored guest, Democratic National Convention, 1960. African ancestry. Member, Freemasons; NAACP. Died, from lung cancer, in St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 15, 1965 (age 45 years, 335 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
  Relatives: Married to Nadine Robinson; married, March 28, 1948, to Maria Hawkins Ellington.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Andrew Haley (1899-1981) — also known as James A. Haley; Jim Haley — of Sarasota, Sarasota County, Fla. Born in Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Ala., January 4, 1899. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; accountant; chair of Sarasota County Democratic Party, 1925-53; member of Florida state house of representatives, 1949-52; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1952 (alternate), 1960; U.S. Representative from Florida, 1953-77 (7th District 1953-73, 8th District 1973-77). Methodist. Member, American Legion; Forty and Eight; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Sons of the American Revolution; Freemasons; Elks. Former president and director, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus. Died in Sarasota, Sarasota County, Fla., August 6, 1981 (age 82 years, 214 days). Interment at Boca Raton Cemetery, Boca Raton, Fla.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Jackson Haley and Mary Lee (Stevenson) Haley; married to Aubrey B. Ringling.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Gilbert R. Hill (b. 1931) — also known as Gil Hill — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., 1931. Police officer; candidate for mayor of Detroit, Mich., 2001. African ancestry. Portrayed Inspector Douglas Todd in the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies. Still living as of 2001.
  See also Wikipedia article — Internet Movie Database profile
Milford W. Howard Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) — also known as Milford W. Howard — of Fort Payne, DeKalb County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born near Rome, Floyd County, Ga., February 18, 1862. U.S. Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99; novelist; appeared as an actor in a silent movie based on one of his novels; one of the editors of the conservative magazine The Awakener in the 1930s. Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., December 28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Sallie Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
  Relatives: Married, December 23, 1883, to Sarah A. 'Sallie' Lankford.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)
  Horace Garvin Platt (1852-1910) — also known as Horace G. Platt — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in Selma, Dallas County, Ala., 1852. Democrat. Lawyer; orator; member of California state assembly 9th District, 1881-83; Vice-Consul for Russia in San Francisco, Calif., 1892-1903; president of a San Francisco streetcar line. Died, in Adler Sanatorium, San Francisco, Calif., August 29, 1910 (age about 58 years). Interment at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Dr. William Henry Platt and Cornelia Margaret (Cuthbert) Platt; third cousin once removed of Delos Fall; fourth cousin of Howard B. Peck.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Fred Dalton Thompson (b. 1942) — also known as Fred Thompson — of Tennessee. Born in Sheffield, Colbert County, Ala., August 19, 1942. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1994-; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 2008. Member, Screen Actors Guild. Became an actor when he played himself in the 1985 film Marie, and went on to appear in other films in 1985-94, including No Way Out, The Hunt for Red October, Cape Fear, and In the Line of Fire, as well as the television series Law and Order. Still living as of 2014.
  Relatives: Son of Fletcher Thompson and Ruth Thompson; married, September 12, 1959, to Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey; married, June 29, 2002, to Jeri Kehn.
  The Fred Thompson U.S. Courthouse (under construction 2019), in Nashville, Tennessee, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
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