“Alabama Senator” Howell Heflin Hand Signed 4X6 Card Todd Mueller COA

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“Alabama Senator” Howell Heflin Hand Signed 4X6 Card.
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Howell Thomas Heflin
(June 19, 1921 – March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the
United States Senate
, representing
Alabama
, from 1979 to 1997. Heflin was born on June 19, 1921, in
Poulan
,
Georgia
. He attended public school in Alabama, graduating from Colbert County High School in
Leighton
. He earned his
Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1942 from
Birmingham-Southern College
in
Birmingham
, where he became a member of
Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity. There was a tradition of politics in his family: He was a nephew of
James Thomas Heflin
, a prominent white supremacist politician and U.S. Senator, and great-nephew of
Robert Stell Heflin
, a
U.S. Representative
. During
World War II
, from 1942 to 1946, Heflin served as an officer in the
United States Marine Corps
. He was awarded the
Silver Star
for valor in combat and received two
Purple Heart
medals, having seen action on
Bougainville
and
Guam
. After World War II, Heflin attended the
University of Alabama School of Law
, from which he graduated in 1948. For nearly two decades, he served as a law professor, while concurrently practicing law in
Tuscumbia, Alabama