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James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
5 mag 2021 · James Thomas “Cotton Tom” Heflin (1869-1951) had two things he would say he was proud of during his political career: founding Mother’s Day and shooting a black man in an altercation. This is the story of the man who made Mother’s Day possible but also rose and fell in politics through his practice of bigotry.
Most Senators thought they had heard the final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As...
Over the fierce objection of the majority leader, the Senate, by a one-vote margin, extended this unusual privilege to former Alabama senator James Thomas Heflin.
7 lug 2023 · James Thomas Heflin was born on April 9, 1869, at Louina, Randolph County, to physician Wilson Lumpkin Heflin and Lavicie Catherine Phillips Heflin. His grandfather, Wyatt Heflin, was one of the first settlers of the county and served in the Alabama State Legislature.
26 apr 2017 · One of them occurred on this day in 1932, when, by a one-vote margin, the Senate let James Thomas Heflin (1869-1951), a former Democratic senator from Alabama, take the floor. A rococo figure in...
Biography. HEFLIN, JAMES THOMAS, (nephew of Robert Stell Heflin and uncle of Howell Thomas Heflin), a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in Louina, Randolph County, Ala., April 9, 1869; attended the common schools of Randolph County, Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., and Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College (later ...
