Thomas Dale Alford Sr (1916 - 2000)

Born 28 Jan 1916 in Newhope, Pike, Arkansas, United States

Died 25 Jan 2000 at age 83 in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States

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U S Congress Thomas was born in 1916. He passed away in 2000.

He won on a write in ballot.

An American ophthalmologist and politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas who served as a conservative Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from Little Rock from 1959 to 1963.

Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and politician remembered largely as a leader of opposition to federally mandated desegregation during the crisis at Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Alford’s role as a leading segregationist came first through his seat on the Little Rock School Board and then as the “Segregation Sticker Candidate” who upset incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Brooks Hays after a notorious ten-day write-in campaign in the 1958 election for the Fifth Congressional District of Arkansas.

• Fact: Residence (1920) Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Rector, Clay, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Residence (1935) Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas
• Fact: Residence (1940) Ward 3, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States
• Fact: Burial (January 2000) Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
• Fact: Obituary (27 Jan 2000) Memphis, Tennessee, United States
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch ALFORD, Thomas Dale, a Representative from Arkansas; born in New Hope, Pike County, Ark., January 28, 1916; attended the public schools of Rector, Ark.; B.S., Arkansas State College, Jonesboro, Ark., (University of Central Arkansas); M.D., University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, Ark., 1939; postgraduate training at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.; United States Army Medical Corps, 1940-1946; assistant professor, Emory University College of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., 1947-1948; teaching faculty, University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, Ark., 1948-1958; member of the board of education, Little Rock, Ark., 1955-1958; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1960; elected as an Independent Democrat as a write-in candidate to the Eighty-sixth and as a Democrat to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination; died on January 25, 2000, in Little Rock, Ark.; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.

--https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/8404, retrieved 1 March 2021

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 March 2021, 15:12), entry for Thomas Dale Alford (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KHPP-7WN ); contributed by various users.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDNV-PHN : 31 January 2021), Thomas D Alford in entry for Thomas F Alford, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM2V-Z41 : accessed 22 January 2022), Dale Alford in household of Thomas A Alford, Rector, Clay, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 7B, line 67, family 169, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 68; FHL microfilm 2,339,803.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB2W-TX9 : 5 January 2021), Thomas Dale Alford, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 78-101, sheet 1B, line 43, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3345.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYGS-N6J : 10 January 2021), T Dale Alford, 25 Jan 2000; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6851242/thomas-dale-alford : accessed 21 January 2022), memorial page for Thomas Dale Alford Sr. (28 Jan 1916–25 Jan 2000), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6851242, citing Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave .

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