George Huddleston Junior

George Huddleston junior (born March 19, 1920 in Birmingham , Jefferson County , Alabama , † September 14, 1971 in Washington ) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Huddleston, whose father George was also active as a politician, attended public school in Birmingham. He then studied at George Washington University in Washington, after a year he moved to Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1941. He is also the co-author of a Scoreboard of Official Reports on the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901.

When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the United States Navy , where he served in the rank of lieutenant from 1942 to 1946. During his service, he spent 32 months in the Pacific theater. After the war, he continued to serve in the Naval Reserve with the rank of captain. He also began to study again at the University of Alabama Law School , where he graduated in 1948. He was admitted to the bar in the same year. He then served as the Assistant District Attorney for the 10th District Attorney in Alabama between 1948 and 1949. He then served as the US Assistant Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1949 to 1952. He then ran a practice in Birmingham between 1952 and 1954.

Huddleston was elected a Democrat in the 84th and four subsequent Congresses. He served there between January 3, 1955 and January 3, 1965. When he was re-elected in 1965 in the 89th Congress, he failed. He then started working for North American Rockwell Corp. in 1964. to work and was company director for government affairs until his death on September 14, 1971. He lived until then in Middleburg , Virginia and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham.

Web links

• George Huddleston junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)