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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaALLGOOD, Miles Clayton
(1878—1977)
ALLGOOD, Miles Clayton, a Representative from Alabama; born in Chepultepec (now Allgood), Blount County, Ala., February 22, 1878; attended the common schools of his native county and was graduated from the State Normal College at Florence, Ala., in 1898; taught school in Blount County; tax assessor of Blount County, Ala., 1900-1909; member of the State Democratic executive committee 1908-1910; Blount County agricultural demonstration agent 1910-1913; State auditor of Alabama 1914-1918; State commissioner of agriculture and industries 1918-1922; elected as a delegate at large from Alabama to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on War Claims (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; served as a member of the Farm Security Administration from September 4, 1935, until he retired on December 1, 1943; made an unsuccessful campaign for State treasurer in 1954; retired; died in Fort Payne, Ala., March 4, 1977; interment in Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, Ala.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. Creation of organized rural communities to demonstrate the benefits of planned settlement and supervised rural development
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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