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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Braxton Bragg Comer |
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, Alabama , United States |
| Email | None |
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November 07, 1848
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| Died | August 15, 1927
(78 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | RP
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| Info | born in Spring Hill, Barbour (now Mobile) County, Ala., November 7, 1848; attended the common schools, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the University of Georgia at Athens; was graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1869; engaged as a planter, merchant, banker, and cotton manufacturer; member of the commissioners’ court of Barbour County, Ala., 1874-1880; moved to Anniston, Ala., and to Birmingham, Ala., in 1890; continued in his agricultural and business pursuits; president of the Railroad Commission of Alabama 1905-1906; Governor of Alabama 1907-1911; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Bankhead and served from March 5, 1920, to November 2, 1920, when a successor was elected; resumed his former business pursuits in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., and died there August 15, 1927; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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