Armistead Inge Selden junior

Armistead I. Selden (right) in conversation with Wernher von Braun , 1968

Armistead Inge Selden, Jr. (born February 20, 1921 in Greensboro , Alabama , † November 14, 1985 in Birmingham , Alabama) was an American politician . He represented the state of Alabama as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

Armistead Selden attended Greensboro Public School. He graduated from Greensboro High School in 1938 and from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1942 . Selden served in the United States Navy from August 1942 to March 1946 . He spent 31 months at sea, mostly in the North Atlantic, and left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant. He then served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve. He attended the University of Alabama School of Law and received his doctorate there in 1948. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and opened a practice in Greensboro.

politics

In the following years, from 1951 to 1952, he was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives . Selden was elected as a Democrat to the 83rd Congress and re-elected to the next seven subsequent Congresses. His term of office ran from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1969. Selden decided not to run again as a candidate in the 1968 election for the House of Representatives. He tried to run for the US Senate , but failed. Thereafter, Selden returned to work in his practice, which he held until October 1970.

Selden was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) between October 1970 and February 1973 . He then went to New Zealand , Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa as the United States Ambassador . He carried out this activity between 1974 and 1979. A year later, in 1980, Selden tried to be elected to the US Senate as a Republican candidate for the state of Alabama, but failed again. He then became President of the American League for Exports and Security Assistance , where he held this position from 1980 until his death in 1985.

Armistead Selden was a resident of Greensboro, Falls Church, Virginia, and Birmingham. He died in the latter city on November 14, 1985. He was buried in City Cemetery in Greensboro.

Web links

• Armistead Inge Selden junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• THE NEW YORK TIMES: Armistead I. Selden Jr. Dies ex-Congressman of Alabama (November 16, 1985)