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Politician Writers in Alabama

Maryon Pittman Allen (1925-2018) — also known as Maryon Pittman; Maryon Pittman Mullins; Mrs. Jim Allen — of Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala.; Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala. Born in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss., November 30, 1925. Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1978; appointed 1978; defeated, 1978; columnist for the Washington Post newspaper, 1978-81. Female. Presbyterian. Member, Zonta. Died July 23, 2018 (age 92 years, 235 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Daughter of John D. Pittman and Tellie (Chism) Pittman; married, August 7, 1964, to James Browning Allen; married, October 17, 1946, to Joshua Sanford Mullins, Jr.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Cooper Godbold (1920-2009) — also known as John C. Godbold — Born in Coy, Wilcox County, Ala., March 24, 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, 1981-87; took senior status 1987. Died in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., December 22, 2009 (age 89 years, 273 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married to Betty Showalter.   The John C. Godbold Federal Building, in Atlanta, Georgia, is named for him.   See also federal judicial profile — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges   Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer (b. 1964) — also known as Quin Hillyer — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La.; Mobile, Mobile County, Ala. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., March 16, 1964. Republican. Newspaper columnist; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1988; candidate for U.S. Representative from Alabama 1st District, 2013. Still living as of 2017.   Relatives: Son of Haywood Hanson Hillyer III and Brenda (Edmonson) Hillyer.   See also Wikipedia article 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)   John B. Nicholson (b. 1896) — of Texas. Born in Attalla, Etowah County, Ala., November 4, 1896. Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Changsha, 1917-18. Burial location unknown.   Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) — also known as Max Rafferty — of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., May 9, 1917. Republican. School teacher and principal; superintendent of schools; newspaper columnist; California superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1968; dean, Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82. Episcopalian. Irish ancestry. Member, Phi Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary. Drowned when his car went off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike County, Ala., June 13, 1982 (age 65 years, 35 days). Interment at Green Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.   Relatives: Son of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1886-1967) and DeEtta (Cox) Rafferty; married, June 4, 1944, to Frances Luella Longman.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) — of Alabama. Born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., September 21, 1851. Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97. Author of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books. Died in Washington, D.C., December 26, 1922 (age 71 years, 96 days). Originally entombed at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.   Relatives: Son of Richard Nixon Taylor and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor; brother of Richard Vipon Taylor; married, May 8, 1878, to Mary Leonora LeBaron (daughter of William Alexander LeBaron; sister of Leonard DeCantlaine LeBaron; granddaughter of Charles LeBaron).   Political family: LeBaron-Taylor family of Mobile, Alabama.   The World War II Liberty ship SS Hannis Taylor (built 1943 at Wilmington, North Carolina; scrapped 1972) was named for him.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial

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