Carl Elliott
Carl Atwood Elliott (born 20 December 1913 in Vina, Alabama; † January 9, 1999 in Jasper, Alabama ) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives. He practiced this activity between January 1949 and January 1965.
Career
Early years
Carl Atwood Elliott was born on 20 December 1913 in Vina, a small community in the mountains of northwest Alabama. He graduated already with sixteen years of high school. Because of the educational policy of the University President George H. Denny during the Great Depression Elliott was able to attend the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Through various jobs around the campus, Elliot was able to pay his education and received his diploma in 1933. Afterwards he started at the University of Alabama School of Law to study.
During his law studies, he was a candidate for the position of Student Government President of the University of Alabama. With the help of the growing number of non-state students Elliott was the first candidate to ever " The Machine" struck a fine amalgamation of religious and sororities that dominated the campus policy of the University to this day. 1936 Elliott finished his term as SGA president and graduated with his law degree.
Then he opened a practice in Russellville, Alabama, near his hometown. But a short time later, he moved to a city where he was to spend the rest of his life: Jasper, Alabama. During his career as an attorney in Jasper, Elliott spent most of this, coal miners and their families to represent a premonition of his long political career of fighting for Alabama's poorest, most disadvantaged people.
He served between 1942 and 1944 in the United States Army. Thereafter, he was elected twice to the local judge in Jasper before 1948 took the road in the U.S. Congress.
Political career
His " from farm hand to Congress' role was very popular in the middle of the working class in the district and tossed by the incumbent Rep. Carter Manasco, to the surprise of many political observers, from his office. Then Elliott won the election and procured his wife an official residence in the Capitol. They spent the next 16 years between Washington, DC and Jasper.
Elliott took the old seventh district in the U.S. Congress. He served in the House Veterans Committee, the Education and Labor Committee and the Rules Committee. In addition, he set the Select Committee for a government research. In 1956 he wrote the Library Services Act, which millions of rural Americans mobile libraries ( Facebook Mobile ) and continuing library service brought. Two years later, in 1958, he was co - author of the National Defense Education Act ( NDEA ), which improved the science, foreign languages and technology education nationwide. Here, for example, Loans at low loan rates for colleges and universities introduced for needy students. The NDEA was also a reaction to the success of the Soviet Union in the race for the conquest of space. Both laws have been expanded over time. Today, more than 30 million college students have received loans under legislative nationwide Elliotts NDEA.
Elliott was in 1964 in an extraordinary campaign for the reduction of the headquarters of the Alabama defeated congressional delegation. His defeat was attributed to his struggles with the late Governor George C. Wallace of the different political paths, including this election campaign. He also suffered equally by the pro- Goldwater - current damage to electoral victory in Congress helped some Republicans this year.
Elliotts run for governor in Alabama in 1966 took place on a catwalk of government support for the needy, for better education and racial tolerance. He lost the election, which was burdened by the racial tension and characterized by bomb threats, as well as by the appearance of the Ku Klux Klan on several of his campaign speeches, to Lurleen Wallace, who took on behalf of her husband, George C. Wallace, who due to the state Articles were not admitted. After Elliott's defeat, he slipped into political oblivion and into poverty, because he spent his Congress board for the governor's race. He took his work as a lawyer again, wrote books on local history, turned columns and book reviews for local newspapers here and published books by local authors. His books include five volumes of reports of the Northwest Alabama, a history of Red Bay, Alabama, and seven volumes of the history of coal workers.
Retirement and last years
Elliott received 1990 new confirmation for his achievements, when he became the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award. On the evening of life he received the long sought-after justification, as he was able to travel to Boston to receive the award from Senator Ted Kennedy. His autobiography, The Cost of Courage: The Journey of An American Congressman was released in 1992, ultimately through the University of Alabama Press reprinted.
A one-hour television program, Conscience of a Congressman: The Life and Times of Carl Elliott, was generated as a result of The Alabama Experience documented series for The University of Alabama Center for Public Television & Radio. A week before his death, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis " Conscience of a Congressman " look. She knew Elliott already, because he worked with her husband in Congress. Jacqueline Onassis was also the editor of Elliott's memoranda. In a letter to Elliott, she wrote that the driving force of this program " was going to be to what it does to young people."