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gress for the term ending March 3,
1885, and died in Athens, Ala, August
8, 1900.
Pugh Was Twentieth Senator
James Lawrence Pugh of Enfaula was
born in Burke county, Georgia, December
Il, 1920; moved to Alabama in 1874 and
was admitted to the bar in 1871. Was a
Taylor elector in 1913; Buchanan elector
in 1906 and Tilden elector in 1876, and
was member of Congress from Alabama
at the outbreak of the Civil war
Joined the Confederate army and served
as a private; elected to the Confederate
Congress in 1861 and reelected in 1868;
after the war he resumed the practice
OF Jaw and was elected to the united
States Senate and served from November
2, 1880, TO March 3, 1897, and died at
Washington March 81 1907.
An Old Roman
Edmund Winston Pettus of Selma vet
eran oil the Mexican and Civil wars, law
yer and judge, who came to the Senate
at the age of 76 and served for 10 years
thereafter was born in LiIpestone coun-
ty, Alabama, July 6, 1871 ~'studed law
and was admitted to the bar in 1872 and
became solicitor for the Seventh circuit
in 1874; served as lieutenant in the
Mexican war and in 1S49 went TO Califor-
mia on horseback; elected judge of the
Seventh circuit in 1855 and resigned in 1858;
entered the Confederate army and rose
to be brigadier general; after the war
he resumed the practice of law at Selma
and was elected TO the Senate of the
United States and served from March 4,
1897, until his death at Hot Springs, n.
c., July q, 1901, at the age of 81.
Twenty-SecOnd Senator
Joseph Forney Johnston of Birmingham
was the twenty-second senator and the
last of Alabama senators who have died
In office. He was born in Lincoln coun-
ty, North Carolina, March %, 1913; re-
ceived a public school education. enlisted
In the Confederate army as a private
and served throughout the war and rose
to the rank of captain admitted to the
bar in 1866 and moved to Selma and from
thence to Birmingham. He was elected
governor of Alabama in 1896 and reelected
in 1898, and served four years. and was
elected to the United States Senate to
fill a vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Edmund W. Pettus and took his
seat December 3, 1907 was reelected. and
served until his death at Washington, d.
c., August I, 1913.
Twenty-Third Senator
John Hollis Bankhead of Fayette, for 20
years member of the United States
House of Representatives, and the sue
cessor of John Tyler Morgan In the Uni
ted States Senate, was born in Marion
(now Lamar) county, Alabama, Septem-
Der 10, 1872; served four years in the Con-
federate army; member of the general
assembly of Alabama 1s65-66 and 1867
member of the state senate 1S76-77, and
of the house of representatives 1Ss0-S1 and
warden of the Alabama penitentiary
1885, and served as democrat In Con-
gress from March 4, 1887, TO March g. 1907
and was appointed and subsequently elect
ed to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Senator
John I. Morgan and took his seat June
IS, 1907 and has served continuously from
that date and his present term will ex-
pire March 3, 1918.
Henry d. Clayton
Henry De Lamar Clayton of Eufaula
member of Congress from Alabama
since March 4, 1897, period of l6 years
was on August II, 1913 appointed by Gov
ernor O'Neal United States senator to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Senator Johnston. but has as yet not
been admitted to his seat, their being
scme question in the mind OF the Senate
whet.far or not Governor O'Neal, under
the new constitutional provision affect
ing the election of senator's, has the power
to make the appointment. Should he be
admitted, he will be the twenty-fourth
Alabama senator.
He was born in Barbour county. Ala
bama, February 10, 1851: is a graduate
of the law department of the University
of Alabama: served one term in the Ala
bama legislature; United States district
attorney from May. 1s93 to October, 1896,
and elected as a democrat to the fifty
fifth and the eight succeeding Congresses
Former Senators
There Is no ex-senator of Alabama liv-
ing. Senator Pugh being the last to die
in 1907.