Etowah County
Alabama
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Etowah County
Alabama
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Etowah County
Index to Locations UnknownLocation Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama CrestwoodCemetery Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama Founded 1940
ForrestCemetery Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama
|  John Lawson Burnett (1854-1919) — also known asJohn L. Burnett — of Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.Born in Cedar Bluff,CherokeeCounty, Ala.,January20, 1854.Democrat. Member ofAlabamastate house of representatives, 1884; member ofAlabamastate senate, 1886;U.S.Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1899-1919; died inoffice 1919.Died in Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.,May 13,1919 (age65 years, 113days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
| John Perkins Ralls (1812-1904) — also known asJohn P. Ralls — of Alabama. Born in Greensboro,GreeneCounty, Ga.,January1, 1812.Delegateto Alabama secession convention, 1861;Representativefrom Alabama in the Confederate Congress 3rd District, 1862-64;defeated, 1863;delegateto Alabama state constitutional convention, 1875; member ofAlabama state legislature, 1878.Methodist.Died in Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.,November22, 1904 (age92 years, 326days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery. | George Copeland Hawkins Jr. (1918-1991) — also known asGeorge C. Hawkins, Jr. — of Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.Born in Elora,LincolnCounty, Tenn.,December4, 1918.Democrat.Lawyer;alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,1948;member ofAlabamastate house of representatives; elected 1950, 1954; candidate forGovernorof Alabama, 1958; member ofAlabamastate senate; elected 1962; candidate forU.S.Representative from Alabama, 1964.Methodist.Member,Associationof Trial Lawyers of America;American BarAssociation.Died, ofkidneyfailure,August9, 1991 (age72 years, 248days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery. | Balpha Lonnie Noojin, Sr. (1885-1950) — also known asB. Lonnie Noojin;B. L.Noojin —of Attalla,EtowahCounty, Ala.; Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.BornAugust10, 1885.Republican. Candidate forU.S.Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1922; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Alabama,1924(alternate),1928,1932,1940(member,Committeeon Rules and Order of Business),1944,1948;member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Alabama, 1940-45.DiedSeptember7, 1950 (age65 years, 28days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery. | L. L. Herzberg (d. 1946) — of Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,1920,1936;probate judge in Alabama, 1920; chairman, Board of Trustees of theUniversity of Alabama; chairman, Alabama Highway Department.Germanancestry.Died in1946.Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
| Hobdy G. Rains (1912-1988) — of Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.Born inDeKalbCounty, Ala.,March29, 1912.Democrat.Paroleofficer;lawyer;bankdirector; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromAlabama,1952,1968;secretaryof Alabama Democratic Party, 1967.Baptist.Member,AmericanJudicature Society;OddFellows;Freemasons;Shriners.Died in Alabama,April18, 1988 (age76 years, 20days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
| Horace Alexander Houze (1914-1994) — also known asH. A. Houze — of Gadsden,EtowahCounty, Ala.Born in Alabama,June 28,1914.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama,1964,1968.Died in Birmingham,JeffersonCounty, Ala.,June 4,1994 (age79 years, 341days).Interment at Forrest Cemetery.
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