S. Hubert Dent, Jr.

Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr. ( born August 16, 1869 in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama, † October 6, 1938 ) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party).

Career

Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr. attended the Community School and graduated in 1886 from Southern University ( later Birmingham Southern College ) in Greensboro (Alabama ). He graduated in 1889 from the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville. He was admitted as a lawyer in the same year and then began to practice in Eufaula. He was there until 1899 worked as he then dragged to Montgomery (Alabama ).

Dent also pursued a political career. He took 1901 as a delegate to participate in the Constituent Assembly of Alabama. Then he worked for Montgomery County 1902-1909 as a prosecutor. Dent took 1908 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part. He was elected to the 61st U.S. Congress and reelected to the five succeeding U.S. Congresses. There he worked in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1909 to 3 March 1921. During this time, he had presided over the Committee on Military Affairs ( 65th Congress ). In his candidacy in 1920 in the 67th Congress, he suffered a defeat. Then he went to Montgomery again his work as a lawyer after. He was also the 1933 president of the Constituent Assembly of Alabama, where it was about the lifting of the 18 additional article. Dent died in 1938 in Montgomery and was buried in the Cemetery Eufaula.