page_title: Howell Heflin
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Howell Heflin / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Howell Heflin Memorial at the War Memorial, Colbert County Courthouse, Colbert County, Alabama
context_page_description: Howell Thomas Heflin was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate representing Alabama from 1979 to 1997. He chose not to run for reelection in 1996.
context_section_description: The University of Alabama School of Law has honored Heflin with the "Howell Heflin Conference Room" in the Bounds Law Library. Tuscumbia named a street "Howell Heflin Lane" in his honor. The Howell Heflin Lock and Dam in Alabama is named in his honor. The Howell T. Heflin Seminar room in the Birmingham-Southern College Library is also named in his honor.
  The New York Times characterized him as the "conscience of the Senate."
caption: Memorial to Howell Heflin at the war memorial near the Colbert County Courthouse, Colbert County, Alabama
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