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(El)c illontigomcrj 5tincttiscr MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1979 22 Senators Representatives ing the life insurance industry. During the past 10 years, Weeks has ranked annually in the top 12 in production for his company, Costal State Life Insurance. The 36-year-old senator is a member of the Troy Jaycees, Exchange Club, and Century Club at Troy State University. chosen "Outstanding Young Man of the Year" in Huntsville and one of four "Outstanding Young Men in Alabama." In 1977, the Democratic legislator received the Jaycees' Good Government Award. A native of Dunlap, Smith and his wife Betty have three children, Brett, 16, Bart 13 and Bonnie, 9.

Exchange Club, B.P.O. Elks, and St. Matthias Episcopal Church. Barton and his wife Elane have one son, Chet Barton, 12. of the Tannehill Historical State Park Authority.

His wife Barbara Jean is a native of Gadsden and they have two children, Don, 16, and Tara, 14. Proctor of Sylacauga has served in both the legislative and judicial branches of government. Prior to becoming the senator from District 18, Proctor was deputy district attorney for Talladega County for seven years. Now his Senate district covers all of Chilton and Coosa counties plus parts of Shelby, Talladega and Jefferson counties. A Navy veteran, Proctor is a member and past president of the Sylacauga Rotary Club, Sylacauga Quarterback of Childersburg, who has served two years each in the House and Senate, is expected to be chairman of the Commerce, Transportation and Utilities Committee.

The Democratic senator from District 19, which covers all of St. Clair County and parts of Calhoun and Talladega counties, worked for Beaunit Fibers and Kimberly-Clark before starting his own insurance and real estate firm in 1976. Teague, who attended Jacksonville State University, is a member of the Childersburg Quarterback Club, City Planning Board, Chamber of Commerce, and First Baptist Church. He and his wife Judy have four children, Kristi, 18; Tracy, 16; Allison, 13; and Todd, 8. Ann Pnpanneclub' and South Talla" iViUC rUrSOnSdega County Chapter of Vf JI Dewey White v.

iK i'i Albright has served on the House Education and Business and Labor committees. He earned both his master's and A. A. degrees from Alabama University after receiving his bachelor's degree in biology from Athens College. Albright has also attended the University of Chattanooga and Auburn University.

He is a member of the Alabama Planning Committee for Career Education and the Huntsville, Alabama and National Education associations. Albright and his wife Joan have three children, Robbie, Joey and Cherise. John Amari John E. Amari of Birmingham will serve the northeast portion of that city as House representative. Amari received his bachelor's degree cum laude from the University of Montevallo and his law degree from Cumberland School of Law, where he served as associate editor of The Cumberland-Samford Law Review.

He is presently an attorney in private practice. Amari is past president of the Roebuck Neighborhood, Birmingham Community Development Planning Board, and he is a member of the Birmingham and Alabama Bar Associations. Park Barton Park Barton, a 35-year-old Democract, will enter the political arena for the first time when he begins his first term as a member of the state House of Representatives for the south and west sections of the city of Tuscaloosa. Barton has served as Deputy District Attorney in Tuscaloosa and is now engaged in a private law practice. A graduate of Escambia County High School, Troy State University, and the University of Alabama School of Law, Barton has also served in the U.S.

Army as a hell-copter pilot in Vietnam. He is a Major in the Alabama Army National Guard. He is a member of the twiifati hum- 1 1 lm, i fftin nwumtfrmw 0 Ann BedsoJe Ann Bedsole of Mobile had been active in Republican party politics before making her first try for the state House from District 101, which includes sections of the city of Mobile. Mrs. Bedsole, 49, is a trustee of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, St.

Paul's Episcopal School in Mobile, and the Mobile Historic Development Foundation. She is a regent of Spring Hill College in Mobile and a member of the Junior League, Mobile Historic Development Commission, and Dauphin Way United Methodist Church. She and her husband Palmer have three children, Mary Riser of Birmingham, John Martin of Mobile and Loraine Bedsole of Mobile. 4 Jim Bennett Jim Bennett, 40, a native of Red Oak, Iowa, is beginning his first term in the House, representing the western portion of Birmingham and the city of Bessemer. A resident of Home-wood, Bennett served as a member of the 1974 Democratic National Charter Conference in Kansas City.

Bennett, who received his Bachelor of Science degree from Jacksonville State University, is the director of public affairs at Birmingham Southern College. He is a member of the Rotary Club, Public Relations Council of Alabama, and has served three terms as chairman BiJJ Adams Cherokee and a portion of Etowah counties in District 30 will be served by newly-elected Rep. H.H. (Bill) Adams, who originally is from Law-renceburg, and now lives in Piedmont. This will be the first term in public office for the 53-year-old legislator, who has spent 31 years in various phases of the farming industry.

Adams served five years with the U.S. Army during World War II in Europe. He is a chairman of the Limestone County Cancer Crusade, United Givers Fund and the Southwest. Cherokee County Water and Fire Protection Committee. He is president and programs chairman of Kiwanis International, a secretary of the Alabama Council of Farmer Cooperatives, first vice president of the Cherokee County Cattlemen's Association and a member of the Baptist Church.

He and his wife Allene have three children, James, 19, William, 15, and Cathy, 13. Charies Adams Charles H. Adams, a Baptist and a Troy State University graduate, is a salesman who resides in Phenix City. Robert -Albright Elected to a second term as House representative serving the northeast Huntsville area, Robert E. Albright is a vocational counselor for that city's Lee High School.

the American Red Cross. He is also a member of the First Baptist Church of Sylacauga, a director of the sylacauga Chamber of Commerce, and a Democrat. A native of Clay County, Proctor received his foorM frnm gtate University b-j Atn. tmm the University of Ala bama. The 41-year-old senator and bis wife Janice have two children, Brad, 8, and Libbi, 6.

Edward Robertson Edward D. Robertson, a three-term Alabama House member, is beginning a new role as state senator representing Choctaw and Pickens counties and parts of Sumter, Greene and Hale counties. Robertson, 48, of Northport, was a House representative for 11 years, serving from 1967 to 1978. Before that, he served one term on the Northport City Council. A native of Tuscaloosa County and a Democrat, Robertson is an employee with B.F.

Goodrich Co. and has spent 20 years in farming. He has served as a vice president of the United Rubber Workers Local 351. Robertson is a Mason and a member of Five Points Baptist Church and serves on the North-port Clinic Board. He and his wife Jean hav.e a daughter, Donna Gaston, who lives in Northport.

After one term in the Alabama House, Bill Smith of Huntsville wlU be moving to the Senate, where he is expected to be chairman of the new Governmental Affairs Committee. Smith represents District 7, which is the Huntsville metropolitan area. The 40-year-old legislator is in the apartment construction and transportation consulting business. He received a B.S. degree in math from Tennessee Tech and served as an Army artillery officer from 1960-62, when he saw duty In Germany during the 1961 Berlin wish, ue nas achieved the rank of captain in the Army Jt686TV6 to' .1971.

Smith was Crisis. He has achieved Hueytown attorney Mac Parsons is a new member of the Alabama Senate, representing a portion of Jefferson County. Parsons is a 35-year-old Fairfield native and Democrat who is enter- ing his first elective of-. lice. He attended Jack-i sonville State University, and received his law degree from the Birm-1 ingham School of Law.

Parsons is a member of Bessemer Masons, Birmingham Home-builders Association, Alabama and Birmingham Bar Associations, Alabama and Birmingham Trial Lawyers, and North Highlands Baptist Church. He is married to- the former Lucille Crim and they have two children, Jennifer, 9, and April, 8 months. Richmond Pearson Beginning his second term in the Alabama Senate is J. Richmond Pearson of Birmingham, who is expected to be chairman of the powerful Finance and Taxation Committee. A Democrat, Pearson represents District 13, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Home-wood, Brownsville, Bessemer, and Lipscomb.

A Birmingham attorney for more than 20 years, Pearson received his law degree from Howard University after graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta. Pearson, 49, has served as an assistant U.S. attorney and as deputy city attorney for the city of Fairfield. He was a special state attorney assigned, to the kidnapping case of Birmingham businessman A. G.

Gaston. An Army veteran, he is chairman of the board of trustees of Thlrgood C.M.E. Church and is a member of the Alabama Youth Services Board. He also serves on the executive boards of the Boy Scouts of America, the Campflre Girls, and Ala bama Goodwill. to Dr.

Juliet Nunn and have two children, 19-year-old Janlne, a freshman at Princeton University and 17-year-old Julene, a high school senior in Birmingham. ft. 1 Lister Hill Proctor State Sen. Lister HU1; ack Biddle Jack Biddle in will begin serving a second term in the Alabama House when the legislature reconvenes. Biddle, a 48-year-old Democrat, represents north Jefferson County.

A real estate broker and home builder in Birmingham, Biddle was a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps and holds a bachelor's degree from Sanford University. He is on the Official Board of the Gardendale Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church and is a member of several civic organizations. He is married to Nena Berry Biddle. The couple has two children, John Berry Biddle and Carolyn Jan Biddle.

A.J. Blake A. J. Blake brings 30 years of civil service work to his first term as District 56 representative of St. Clair County and a portion of Calhoun County.

Blake, 52, now works as an independent contractor and homebuilder and has served two terms on the Riverside Town Council. The Democrat attended Massey-Draughn Business College and is a member of the Cattlemen's Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Fraternal Order of Police, Rotary Club, Shriners and Masons. Blake and his wife Doris have four children, the Rev. Jeff Blake of Fultondale, Mrs. Sherry Lowery of Harpersville, Mrs.

Brenda Nixon of Pell City and Mrs. Pam Calhoun of Pell City. Continued on page 23 -ir -ir tr Finis St. John The Alabama Senate's new president pro tempore, Finis E. St.

John III of Cullman, is the fourth consecutive member of his family to serve in the Alabama Legislature. St. John, a Democrat, served one term in the House before getting elected to his present post as District 4 senator in 1974. His district covers all of Winston and Cullman counties and parts of Morgan and Walker counties. The 45-year-old attorney is a private pilot and serves as director of Leeth National Bank and the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Cullman.

He is a past president of the Alabama Young Lawyers Association. St. John received his B.S.L., LL.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of Alabama, where he was president of the Law School student body.

St. John and his wife Juliet have two sons, Fess, 21, and Bill, 19. Cordy Taylor political newcomer Cordy Taylor is embarking on his first term in the state Senate representing Butler, Lowndes and Wilcox counties and parts of Autauga, Crenshaw, Dallas, Montgomery and Elmore counties. A 53-year-old public accountant from Prattvllle, Taylor is a retired U.S. Air Force major who left the service to enter the University of Alabama.

There he received a bachelor's degree in accounting. Taylor taught high school from 1970 to 1971. He is a member of the Prattvllle Planning Commission and a member of the board of directors of the Prattvllle Ar Chamber of Commerce. Taylor was born in Montlcello, He Is a member of First Methodist Church of Prattvllle. He and his wife Ann have two children, Charles, 11, and Cathy, 7.

OliTl 1 eOglle State Sen. John Teague Beginning his first term in the Alabama Senate after four years in the House of Representatives is Birmingham physician Dewey White. The 55-year-old Democrat represents District 11, which includes part of the city of Birmingham and the eastern portion of Jefferson County. White, who is expected to be named chairman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, received his B.S. degree from Birmingham Southern College and his M.D.

degree from the University of Virginia Medical College. He is a member of the Youth and Life Board, a Little League coach and commissioner, and an elder of the South High-land Presbyterian Church. The recipient of the "Bufford Ward Award" for exceptional service in the field of medicine, White and his wife Lillian have four children and two grandchildren. James to use traditional Bible Following Alabama tradition, Gov. Fob James is using the "Jefferson Davis Bible" to take the oath of office.

Gov. John Anthony Winston was the first governor to be sworn in with the Bible on Dec. 20, 1853, and it has been used in every inauguration since except 1955, when Gov. James E. "Big Jim" Folsom used a Bible that was given to him at an inaugural prayer breakfast.

The Bible gets its name from its being used to swear in the president of the Confederacy on Feb. 18, 1861. When not being used in inaugural activities, the Bible, which is bound in brown leather, is kept in a glass case in the Archives and History Museum. It was published in 1851 by the American Bible Society in New York. Attached to the inside front pages of the Bible are three letters attesting to its historical signif icance.

Two are from Davis and the third is from a former secretary of state. Double-feature inauguration Alabama had a double-feature Inauguration in 1894 when two men took the oath of office as governor one officially and the other unofficially. The twin inauguration was the aftermath of a bitter campaign between William C. Oates and Reuben F. Kolb, one of Alabama's most colorful and controversial political figures.

Oates was declared the winner of the election by 25,000 votes, but Kolb insisted he had won. On inauguration day, Oates was sworn in on the Capitol steps while a few blocks away on Dexter Avenue, Kolb took the oath of office from a justice of peace. PatVacca Veteran legislator Paschal P. "Pat" Vacca is entering his fourth term in the state Senate, his sixth term in the Alabama Legislature. A city attorney and judge for 11 years in Tarrant, Vacca, 77, has served eight years in the Alabama House and 12 years in the state Senate.

He was re-elected to represent eastern Birmingham, Tarrant, Fulton-dale, Graysville, Gar-dendale, Wylam and nearby areas. A Pennsylvania native and a Democrat, Vacca's occupational background varies from businessman, attorney and tax consultant to accountant, safety director and an arbitrator with the Labor Department in Washington, D.C. Vacca has been executive director of the Tarrant Alabama Housing Authority. Vacca served with the American Red Cross during World War II. He has attended numerous colleges and universities and holds a law degree from the Birmingham School of Law and a B.S.

from Youngstown Business University. He is a member of numerous civic and social organizations. Vacca and his wife Lelia Frances currently live in Tarrant. They have no children. Mike Weeks Troy Insurance man Mike Weeks is the new senator for District 23, which covers all of Macon, Bullock and Pike counties and parts of Barbour, Coffee, Dale and Henry counties.

A Navy veteran, Weeks is a business graduate of the University of Alabama. He is past president of the Alabama Association of Life Underwriters, a professional group of more than 4,000 Alabama insurance agents. For the past five years, he has served as chairman of the organization's State Law and Legislation Committee and has worked In Montgomery on legislation affect- Material Service Inc. The Trutted Name in Dump Hauling Congratulations to COVEXMOR fab FOD-JIZMaES WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST DURING THE NEXT FOUR YEARS! STERN BROS. OFFICE FUZXITUH 206 N.

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