Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Turpin, Louis W. February 22 1849 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   LOUIS W. TURPIN, congressman from the ninth Alabama district, was born in
Albemarle county, Va., February 22, 1849, and was thus, as Lowell said of
himself, annually brought into competition with the most august figure in our
history, Washington. Young Turpin was left an oprhan at an early age, and when
he was nine years old moved to Perry county, Ala., on account of the war between
the states. He enjoyed few educational advantages, but grew up amid the
surroundings and the activities of southern farm life. When he grew up he took
an active. interest in politics. He was for seven years tax assessor of Hale
county, where he had gone to live. He also served as chairman of the democratic
committee of that county for six years and was ex-officio member of the
democratic district executive committee. In 1882 he was a candidate for the
democratic nomination to congress and received thirty-one votes out of a
possible fifty. He was defeated, however, by the two-thirds rule, and a dark
horse got the prize. In 1888 he was nominated in the Selma district, and
received the certificate of election, but was unseated by the republican
majority in the Fifty-first congress. He was re-elected to the Fifty-second
congress, and when the state was redistricted, in 1890, he received the
nomination in his new district, the Birmingham district, and was elected by a
larger majority than the whole state gave the democratic nominee for governor
only three months before the national election, running several hundred ahead of
the Cleveland ticket. Mr. Turpin has established himself as a member of
character and influence in congress. He is a successful planter, and owns
several valuable plantations in the celebrated prairie region of Alabama. He
married the youngest daughter of Maj. Archer Hunt Christian of Greensboro, Ala.,
and has four children living.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1069-1070
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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