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Post Office Politicians in Alabama

James P. Aaron (1895-1981) — of Camp Hill, Tallapoosa County, Ala. Born in Winston County, Ala., November 19, 1895. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; postmaster; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1940. Died in Camp Hill, Tallapoosa County, Ala., March, 1981 (age 85 years, 0 days). Interment at Camp Hill Cemetery, Camp Hill, Ala.   Relatives: Son of Margaret (Powell) Aaron and George W. Aaron; married to Florine Brazell.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Farrington Aldrich (1853-1925) — also known as William F. Aldrich — of Aldrich, Shelby County, Ala. Born in Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y., March 11, 1853. Republican. Civil engineer; mining business; manufacturer; postmaster; U.S. Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1896-97, 1898-99, 1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1900, 1904. Died in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., October 30, 1925 (age 72 years, 233 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of William F. Aldrich and Louisa Maria (Klapp) Aldrich; brother of Truman Heminway Aldrich; married, April 16, 1889, to Josephine Cables; married, July 15, 1920, to Fannie Spire; second great-grandfather of William Jackson Edwards.   Political family: Aldrich family of Birmingham, Alabama.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Walthall M. Moore (1881-1960) — of St. Louis, Mo. Born in Marion, Perry County, Ala., May 1, 1881. Republican. Postal clerk; laundry business; member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1921-22, 1925-30 (St. Louis City 6th District 1921-22, St. Louis City 3rd District 1925-30); defeated, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1928. African ancestry. Died in St. Louis, Mo., April 8, 1960 (age 78 years, 343 days). Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, St. Louis County, Mo.   Relatives: Son of John Moore and Sarah Moore; married, December 29, 1911, to Fern A. Ferguson.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Gottfried Adolph Prinz (1851-1902) — also known as G. A. Prinz — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; Cullman, Cullman County, Ala. Born in Nieder-Ingelheim, Germany, December 20, 1851. Democrat. Merchant; banker; postmaster; mayor of Cullman, Ala., 1876-77; Cullman County Treasurer, 1882-88; alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Alabama, 1896. Evangelical Christian. German and French Huguenot ancestry. Member, Odd Fellows. Died in Cullman, Cullman County, Ala., September 16, 1902 (age 50 years, 270 days). Interment at Cullman Cemetery, Cullman, Ala.   Relatives: Married 1870 to Ingeborg Lueddemann.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Henry Haywood Tison (1822-1882) — also known as W. H. H. Tison — of Carrollville, Prentiss County, Miss. Born in Jackson County, Ala., November 6, 1822. Democrat. Farmer; lawyer; postmaster; dry goods merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1860, 1880; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Murdered, in Baldwyn, Lee County, Miss., December 4, 1882 (age 60 years, 28 days). Interment at Baldwyn Masonic Cemetery, Baldwyn, Miss.   Relatives: Married, April 19, 1853, to Sarah Celina Walker.   William Ora Walton (b. 1892) — of Waverly, Lee County, Ala.; Lafayette, Chambers County, Ala. Born in Waverly, Lee County, Ala., December 6, 1892. Democrat. Postmaster; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; school teacher; lawyer; newspaper editor; member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1923-27. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Knights of Pythias; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Exchange Club. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Ora Walton and Susie Emma (Trimble) Walton; married, July 18, 1925, to Lynda Ruth Tatum.

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