Edward Berton Almon

Democrat Representative of Alabama's 8th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

April 18, 1860 (73 years old)

Birthday

June 22, 1933

Death

Graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1883 and entered the legal profession in 1885.
Served in the Alabama Senate from 1892 to 1894.
Was a Presidential Elector for Alabama in 1896.
Served as a circuit court judge from 1898 to 1906.
Served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1910 to 1915, including a term as Speaker in 1911.
Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1914, serving from 1915 until his death in 1933.
Served as Chairman of the House Committee on Roads from 1931 to 1933.
Voted against declaring war on Germany in 1917.
Married Luie Clopper in 1887 and had two daughters.
Died in Washington, D.C., in 1933 and is interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Alabama.