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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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JARMAN, Peterson Bryant (Pete), a Representative from Alabama; born in Greensboro, Hale County,
Ala., on October 31, 1892; attended the public schools, the Normal College,
Livingston, Ala., and Southern University, Greensboro, Ala.; was graduated from
the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1913, and attended the University of
Montpellier, France, in 1919; clerk in probate office in Sumter County, Ala.,
1913-1917; during the First World War served overseas as second and first
lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry; served in the
Alabama National Guard as inspector general with rank of major 1922-1924, and
as division inspector of the Thirty-first Infantry Division with rank of
lieutenant colonel 1924-1940; assistant State examiner of accounts 1919-1930;
secretary of state of Alabama 1931-1934; assistant State comptroller in 1935
and 1936; member of the State Democratic executive committee of Alabama
1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on
Memorials (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1948; appointed by President Harry S Truman as Ambassador to Australia on June
8, 1949, and served until July 31, 1953; died in Washington, D.C., February 17,
1955; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
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