Zadoc L. Weatherford

Zadoc Lorenzo Weatherford (born February 4, 1888 in Marion County , Alabama , † May 21, 1983 in Red Bay , Alabama) was an American politician.

Weatherford was born in 1888 on a farm in Marion County, near the Franklin County town of Vina . He attended the medical school of the University of Tennessee in Memphis and worked after his graduation in 1914 for two years as a doctor at the St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis. He then moved to Red Bay, Alabama in 1916, where he worked as a doctor. During the First World War Weatherford served from August 26, 1917 in the field hospital of the 326th Infantry. He received the Purple Heart and was discharged from the army on October 6, 1920. Back in Alabama, he worked in the United States Veterans' Bureau in Montgomery from 1922 to 1924 and then began practicing medicine again in Red Bay. From 1933 to 1937 he was vice chairman of the Democratic Committee of Franklin County. Weatherford was a Senator in the Alabama Senate from 1939 until he was elected to Congress . He had been elected to Congress as a Democrat to fill the vacant seat of the late William B. Bankhead in the US House of Representatives and to bring his current term to an end. He was thus active from November 5, 1940 to January 3, 1941 as a member of the US House of Representatives. He was not available for another term. Weatherford was practicing as a doctor again and did not retire until January 1, 1958. During this time he held the office of Mayor of Red Bay from 1945 to 1948. The office of President of the Bank of Red Bay, which he had held since 1938, he held until 1970.

Web links

• Zadoc L. Weatherford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)