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James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
James Thomas Heflin was born on April 9, 1869, at Louina, Randolph County, to physician Wilson Lumpkin Heflin and Lavicie Catherine Phillips Heflin. His grandfather, Wyatt Heflin, was one of the first settlers of the county and served in the Alabama State Legislature.
Over the fierce objection of the majority leader, the Senate, by a one-vote margin, extended this unusual privilege to former Alabama senator James Thomas Heflin. Known as "Cotton Tom" because of his devotion to Alabama's leading agricultural commodity, the flamboyant Heflin built a political career as an unremitting opponent of equal rights ...
Most Senators thought they had heard the final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As...
English architect. He designed a great number of competently composed houses, including the handsome Italianate palazzo at 15 Kensington Palace Gardens, London (1854). Together with his son, (Sir) James Thomas Knowles (1831–1908), he was responsible for the Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria Station, London (1860–2).
James Thomas “Cotton Tom” Heflin. U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator. He attended Auburn University, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced to practice law in Lafayette, Alabama. He was Mayor of Lafayette, (1893-94), register in chancery, (1894-96) and a a member of the Alabama State House of Representatives, (1896-1900).
James Thomas “Cotton Tom” Heflin (1869-1951) was an Alabama politician who served in the House of Representatives and the Senate as a Democrat. He was born in Louina, Alabama, to Dr. Wilson L. Heflin and LaVicie Catherine Phillips Heflin as one of twelve siblings.