Howell Heflin

Howell Thomas Heflin ( born June 19, 1921 in Poulan, Worth County, Georgia; † 29 March 2005 in Sheffield, Alabama ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 1979 to 1997 he sat for the U.S. state of Alabama in the Senate.

Biography

Howell Heflin was born the nephew of Senator James Thomas Heflin on June 19, 1921 in Poulan in southwest Georgia. In Alabama Heflin attended the public schools and graduated at Colbert County High School in Leighton from. In 1942 he received the Birmingham - Southern College Bachelor of Arts degree.

During the Second World War he served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was twice awarded the Purple Heart for wounds he suffered in Bougainville and in the Battle of Guam. He also received the Silver Star. After the war he attended the University of Alabama and studied law there. In 1948 he completed his studies and became a law professor. From 1971 to 1977 he was Chief Justice ( Chief Justice ) of the Supreme Court of Alabama (Alabama Supreme Court ).

1978 Heflin was elected as a Democratic Party candidate for senator. He succeeded John Sparkman. In the Senate he served until 1997. From 1987 to 1992 he was Chairman (German President) of the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics. During his time as a senator, he was by then U.S. President Ronald Reagan as Judge at the Supreme Court of the United States proposed, but the nomination refused. For reelection in 1996, he could no longer put up, he was succeeded by Jeff Sessions.

Heflin died in March 2005 in Sheffield, after he had suffered a myocardial infarction.

Posthumous work

At the University of Alabama, a conference hall, the Howell Heflin Conference Room was named after him at the School of Law. In Tuscumbia the Howell Heflin Lane, a street was named after him.