Chambers County AlArchives Photo person.....Heflin, J. Thomas 1869-1951
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                      J. Thomas Heflin
                        1869 – 1951

 

Attorney – Statesman – Orator – Patriot

Mayor, City of LaFayette  1893 – 1895
Legislature of Alabama  1896 – 1900
Alabama Constitutional Convention  1901
Alabama Secretary of State  1902 – 1904
Congress of the United States  1904 – 1920
United States Senate  1920 – 1931
 
Unawed By Opinion
Unseduced By Flattery
Undismayed By Disaster
He Confronted Life with Antique Courage
And Death with Christian Hope.
                                                                                
                                                Petigru
 

(Epitaph from Sen. Heflin's granite slab in LaFayette Cemetery.)

 

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