Jesse Francis Stallings (April 4, 1856 – March 18, 1928) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
.
Born near
Manningham, Alabama, to Reuben Stallings and Lucinda Ferguson. Stallings completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
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in 1877.
He studied law at that university. Through his father he was descended from
Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading
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and
Edward Ford.
He was
admitted to the bar
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in April 1880 and commenced practice in
Greenville, Alabama
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.
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Stallings was elected by the legislature of Alabama as solicitor for the second judicial circuit in November 1886 and served until his resignation in September 1892.
He served as delegate to the ]Democratic National Convention
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in 1888.
Stallings was elected as a Democrat
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to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1900 and resumed the practice of his profession in Birmingham, Alabama
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.
Also served as president of the Lincoln Reserve Life Insurance Co. 1912 to 1928.
Personal life
He married Ella McAllister in 1883, who later died in 1885. He then married Belle McAllister in 1887. In 1909, Stallings married Marie Hudmon.[
]
References
External links
*
The Political Career of Jesse Francis Stallings, 1937 - Google books
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1856 births
1928 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
19th-century American politicians