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DENT, Stanley Hubert, Jr., a Representative from Alabama; born in Eufaula, Barbour County,
Ala., August 16, 1869; attended the common schools, and was graduated from
Southern University (later known as Birmingham Southern College), Greensboro,
Ala., in 1886; was graduated from the University of Virginia Law School at
Charlottesville in 1889; was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in
Eufaula, Ala., until 1899; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1899 and continued the
practice of his profession; delegate to the State constitutional convention in
1901; prosecuting attorney for Montgomery County 1902-1909; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3,
1921); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law in
Montgomery, Ala.; served as president of the State constitutional convention
for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933; died in Montgomery, Ala., on
October 6, 1938; interment in Eufaula Cemetery, Eufaula, Ala.
Bibliography Ward, Robert D. Stanley Hubert Dent and American Military
Policy, 1916-1920.
Alabama Historical Quarterly 33 (Fall/Winter 1971): 177-89.
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