Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Stallings, Jesse F. April 4 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JESSE F. STALLINGS, member of Congress and a distinguished lawyer of
Greenville, Butler county, Ala., was born in that county April 4, 1856, and was
educated at the university of Alabama, where he graduated in 1877. After his
graduation he read law with J. C. Richardson, of Greenville, uutill he was
admitted to the bar in 1879, and located for the practice of his profession at
his present home in Greenville. From the start in public life, Mr. Stallings has
been prominently identified with the politics of his county and state, having
been a delegate from Butler county to all the state conventions, since 1880, and
in 1886 he was elected solicitor for the second judicial district for a term of
six years. In 1888 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention at
St. Louis. In 1892, he was elected to congress from the second district by a
majority of 7,100. He is a man of great personal popularity and political
sagacity, and has never violated any of the numerous and important trusts
reposed in him. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was united in
marriage in 1888 to Belle, daughter of Capt. A. M. McAllister, of Barbour
county, Ala. His father was Reuben Stallings, of Alabama. He was an extensive
farmer and served all through the war under Gen. Lee. He died in December, 1891.
His wife was Lucinda Ferguson, a native of Alabama.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 579

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