George Huddleston


George Huddleston was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, father of George Huddleston, Jr.

Life and career

Huddleston was born on a farm near Lebanon, Tennessee, the son of Nancy Emeline and Joseph Franklin Huddleston. Huddleston attended the common schools. He studied law at Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and practiced in Birmingham, Alabama, until 1911, when he retired from practice.
During the Spanish–American War, Huddleston served as a private in the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry.
Huddleston was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses, representing Alabama's 9th congressional district. He generally championed progressive laws and measures. In March 1932, Huddleston addressed a committee of the United States Senate on the subject of the condition of sharecroppers, stating "Any thought that there has been no starvation, that no man has starved and no man will starve, is the rankest nonsense. Men are actually starving in their thousands today..."
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936.
Huddleston died in Birmingham on February 29, 1960, and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
He is a grandfather of writers George Packer and Ann Packer.
He is the father of Nancy Packer, Jane Aaron, Mary Chiles, George Huddleston, and John Huddleston.

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