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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaBULWINKLE, Alfred Lee
(1883—1950)
BULWINKLE, Alfred Lee, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., April 21, 1883; moved with his parents to Dallas, N.C., in 1891; attended the common schools; studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C.; prosecuting attorney for the municipal court of Gastonia 1913-1916; captain in Company B, First Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, 1909-1917; served on the Mexican border in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War served as a major in command of the Second Battalion, One Hundred and Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fifty-fifth Brigade, Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; elected to the Seventy-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his death; chairman, Committee on Memorials (Seventy-sixth Congress); delegate to the International Aviation Conference at Chicago, Ill., in 1944; United States adviser, International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal, Canada, and Geneva, Switzerland, in 1947; died in Gastonia, N.C., August 31, 1950; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
United States. 82d Cong., 1st sess., 1951. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, late a Representative from North Carolina
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1951.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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