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  Almon, Edward B.
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameEdward B. Almon
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Tuscumbia, Alabama , United States
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Born April 18, 1860
Died June 22, 1933 (73 years)
ContributorWishful Thinking
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Jul 26, 2015 05:08am
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InfoRepresentative from Alabama; born near Moulton, Lawrence County, Ala., April 18, 1860; attended the rural schools; was graduated from the State Normal College, Florence, Ala., and from the law department of the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, in 1883; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala.; served in the State senate 1892-1894; judge of the circuit court of the eleventh judicial circuit of Alabama 1898-1906; member of the State house of representatives 1910-1915, serving as speaker in 1911; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1933; chairman, Committee on Roads (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses); interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Ala.


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  11/08/1932 AL District 8 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/04/1930 AL District 8 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/06/1928 AL District 8 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/02/1926 AL District 8 Won 90.13% (+80.25%)
  11/04/1924 AL District 8 Won 81.46% (+62.91%)
  11/07/1922 AL District 8 Won 96.26% (+92.52%)
  11/02/1920 AL District 08 Won 76.40% (+53.42%)
  11/05/1918 AL - District 08 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/07/1916 AL - District 08 Won 85.20% (+72.18%)
  11/03/1914 AL - District 08 Won 96.63% (+94.63%)
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