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style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Dale Alford</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a> from <a href="/wiki/Arkansas%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Arkansas's 5th congressional district">Arkansas's 5th congressional district</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1963</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brooks_Hays" title="Brooks Hays">Brooks Hays</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">District eliminated</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Little Rock School Board</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1955–1958</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Thomas Dale Alford</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span 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(January 28, 1916 – January 25, 2000)<sup id="cite_ref-ssdi.rootsweb.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssdi.rootsweb.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Ophthalmologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Ophthalmologist">ophthalmologist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a> from the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> who served as a <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Democrat" title="Conservative Democrat">conservative Democrat</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> from <a href="/wiki/Little_Rock,_Arkansas" title="Little Rock, Arkansas">Little Rock</a> from 1959 to 1963. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years_and_education">Early years and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alford was born to Thomas H. Alford and the former Ida Womack in the small community of <a href="/wiki/Newhope,_Arkansas" title="Newhope, Arkansas">Newhope</a> near <a href="/wiki/Murfreesboro,_Arkansas" title="Murfreesboro, Arkansas">Murfreesboro</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pike_County,_Arkansas" title="Pike County, Arkansas">Pike County</a> in southwestern Arkansas. He attended <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (government funded)">public schools</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rector,_Arkansas" title="Rector, Arkansas">Rector</a> in <a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Arkansas" title="Clay County, Arkansas">Clay County</a> in far northeastern Arkansas. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/High_school" class="mw-redirect" title="High school">high school</a> in 1932, a year ahead of schedule.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Dale_Alford_pp._62-63_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Dale_Alford_pp._62-63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alford first attended <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_State_University" title="Arkansas State University">Arkansas State College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jonesboro,_Arkansas" title="Jonesboro, Arkansas">Jonesboro</a> in eastern Arkansas, followed by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Central_Arkansas" title="University of Central Arkansas">Arkansas State Teachers College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Conway,_Arkansas" title="Conway, Arkansas">Conway</a>, and received his medical degree in 1939 from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Arkansas_for_Medical_Sciences" title="University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences">University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences</a> at Little Rock. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service_and_medical_practice">Military service and medical practice</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military service and medical practice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alford served as a <a href="/wiki/Captain_(United_States)" title="Captain (United States)">captain</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Corps" title="United States Army Medical Corps">United States Army Medical Corps</a> from 1940 to 1946. He was on active duty as a surgeon in the <a href="/wiki/European_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="European Theater">European Theater</a> of operations. Afterwards, from 1947 to 1948, he was an <a href="/wiki/Assistant_professor" title="Assistant professor">assistant professor</a> at <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a>-affiliated <a href="/wiki/Emory_University_School_of_Medicine" title="Emory University School of Medicine">Emory University School of Medicine</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta, Georgia">Atlanta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections_to_Congress,_1958_and_1960"><span id="Elections_to_Congress.2C_1958_and_1960"></span>Elections to Congress, 1958 and 1960</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Elections to Congress, 1958 and 1960"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alford was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Write-in_candidate" title="Write-in candidate">write-in candidate</a> in the 1958 <a href="/wiki/General_election" title="General election">general election</a> that occurred in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Little_Rock_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Rock Crisis">Little Rock Crisis</a>. He was only the second write-in candidate ever to have been elected to the House. (The <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Skeen" title="Joe Skeen">Joe Skeen</a> was thereafter elected to the House from <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> as a write-in candidate in 1980.) Alford jumped into the election against <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a> <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Hays" title="Brooks Hays">Brooks Hays</a> who had endorsed the <a href="/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration">integration</a> of <a href="/wiki/Little_Rock_Central_High_School" title="Little Rock Central High School">Little Rock Central High School</a>. Alford supporters printed thousands of stickers with his name on them and handed them out at polling places. Hays maintained a lead during the counting until an extra twenty boxes arrived bearing ballots with Alford stickers. Ultimately, Alford prevailed, 30,739 (51 percent) to Hays' 29,483 (49 percent).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Osro_Cobb" title="Osro Cobb">Osro Cobb</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Arkansas" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas">United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas</a>, recalled that: </p> <blockquote><p> There were loud protests and allegations of irregularities and fraud from Hays supporters. Because it was a federal election, I had a <a href="/wiki/Grand_jury" title="Grand jury">grand jury</a> impaneled, and an order was obtained from the U.S. District Court that impounded all of the ballots cast for review by the grand jury. When the grand jury completed its minute review of all the votes cast, it was established that the count had been unusually accurate for each candidate [Alford and Hays], and the grand jury was so outraged by the allegations made and the lack of evidence to support them that it seriously considered indicting those who had made the accusations. I was surprised by Hays' defeat because I did not realize the extent and commitment of the majority of the voters in the Fifth Congressional District to separate-but-equal schools in lieu of integration, which they feared would destroy their schools.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1960, Alford won his second term in the House with 57,617 votes (82.7 percent) to Republican L. J. Churchill (1902–1987) of <a href="/wiki/Dover,_Arkansas" title="Dover, Arkansas">Dover</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pope_County,_Arkansas" title="Pope County, Arkansas">Pope County</a> in northwestern Arkansas, who received 12,054 ballots (17.3 percent).<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Churchill was a highly regarded civic and political figure in Dover. A Cumberland <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Masonic_lodge" title="Masonic lodge">Mason</a>, Churchill served as <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">mayor</a> of Dover and on the municipal school board, both nonpartisan positions. He had been state chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_Stabilization_and_Conservation_Service" title="Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service">Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture" title="United States Department of Agriculture">United States Department of Agriculture</a>. He operated L.J. Churchill's General Merchandise Store and was a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Dover.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Two_gubernatorial_races">Two gubernatorial races</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Two gubernatorial races"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alford's Little Rock-based district was merged with <a href="/wiki/Arkansas%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Arkansas's 2nd congressional district">Arkansas's 2nd congressional district</a>, represented by the chairman of the <a href="/wiki/House_Ways_and_Means_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Ways and Means Committee">House Ways and Means Committee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wilbur_D._Mills" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilbur D. Mills">Wilbur D. Mills</a>, after the 1960 <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a> revealed that Arkansas had grown at less than the national average during the 1950s. Rather than face certain defeat in the 1962 Democratic primary against Mills, at the time an icon in Arkansas politics, Alford instead chose to enter the primary against <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a> Governor Orval Faubus. In an active campaign, Faubus polled a narrow majority over Alford, former Governor <a href="/wiki/Sid_McMath" title="Sid McMath">Sidney Sanders McMath</a>, Vernon H. Whitten, and two other candidates. Faubus received 208,996 ballots (51.6 percent) to McMath's 83,437 (20.6 percent), Alford's 82,815 (20.4 percent), and Whitten's 22,377 (5.5 percent). Faubus then prevailed with ease over the Republican nominee, <a href="/wiki/Fayetteville,_Arkansas" title="Fayetteville, Arkansas">Fayetteville</a> <a href="/wiki/Pharmacist" title="Pharmacist">pharmacist</a> Willis Ricketts.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alford ran for governor again in 1966 and finished fourth with 53,531 votes (12.7 percent). He received fewer voters than his old nemesis <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Hays" title="Brooks Hays">Brooks Hays</a>, who with 64,814 (15.4 percent) finished third in the primary balloting. The <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">runoff</a> positions went to former <a href="/wiki/Arkansas_Supreme_Court" title="Arkansas Supreme Court">Arkansas Supreme Court</a> Justices <a href="/wiki/James_D._Johnson" title="James D. Johnson">James D. Johnson</a>, a segregationist, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Frank_Holt_(Arkansas_politician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank Holt (Arkansas politician) (page does not exist)">Frank Holt</a>. Johnson narrowly defeated Holt in the Democratic runoff but then lost to Republican <a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller" title="Winthrop Rockefeller">Winthrop Rockefeller</a> in the general election. In 1984, Alford entered the Democratic primary election for Congress in Central Arkansas's Second District for the open seat being vacated by Republican <a href="/wiki/Ed_Bethune" title="Ed Bethune">Ed Bethune</a>. Appearing to many voters as a throwback to another era, Alford ran a distant fifth in a race ultimately won by Pulaski County Sheriff <a href="/wiki/Tommy_F._Robinson" title="Tommy F. Robinson">Tommy Robinson</a>. Alford, was far outpolled by African-American Thedford Collins, a Little Rock banker and former aide to U.S. Senator <a href="/wiki/David_Pryor" title="David Pryor">David Pryor</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alford's_death"><span id="Alford.27s_death"></span>Alford's death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Alford's death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alford died in Little Rock of <a href="/wiki/Congestive_heart_failure" class="mw-redirect" title="Congestive heart failure">congestive heart failure</a> on January 25, 2000, three days shy of his eighty-third birthday. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dale_Alford&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit 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<ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ssdi.rootsweb.com-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ssdi.rootsweb.com_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi">Social Security Death Index Interactive Search</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Thomas_Dale_Alford_pp._62-63-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Thomas_Dale_Alford_pp._62-63_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Dale Alford, <i>Who's Who in America, 1962-1963</i>, pp. 62-63</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Dale Alford obituary, <i>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette</i>, January 26, 2000</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceB-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceB_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Osro_Cobb" title="Osro Cobb">Osro Cobb</a>, <i>Osro Cobb of Arkansas: Memoirs of Historical Significance</i> (<a href="/wiki/Little_Rock,_Arkansas" title="Little Rock, Arkansas">Little Rock, Arkansas</a>: Rose Publishing Company, 1989), p. 62</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"L.J. Churchill, 84, dies at Dover", <i><a href="/wiki/Arkansas_Gazette" title="Arkansas Gazette">Arkansas Gazette</a></i>, October 3, 1987, obituary section</span> </li> </ol></div> <p><i>Adapted from the article <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195358/http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dale_Alford">Dale Alford</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Wikinfo" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikinfo">Wikinfo</a>, licensed under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="GNU Free Documentation License">GNU Free Documentation License</a>.</i> </p> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div 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Caraway">Caraway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Driver" title="William J. Driver">Driver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezekiel_C._Gathings" title="Ezekiel C. Gathings">Gathings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Vollie_Alexander_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William Vollie Alexander Jr.">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanche_Lincoln" title="Blanche Lincoln">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Berry" title="Marion Berry">Berry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Crawford_(politician)" title="Rick Crawford (politician)">Crawford</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em"><span data-sort-value="Arkansas02 !"><a href="/wiki/Arkansas%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Arkansas's 2nd congressional district">2nd district</a></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_A._Warren" title="Edward A. 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