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cotton tom heflin
About him
- Born in 1869 in Louina, Alabama.
- His actual name is James (Thomas) Heflin.
- Died in 1951 in LaFayette, Alabama.
- He went to the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama but never graduated.
- He practiced law and successfully argued for completely excluding the Black people of Alabama from voting.
Heflin fought to expand rural mail routes, regulate railroads, and raise cotton prices.
An act that gave him the title "Cotton Tom" that stuck with him forever.
What he did
In 1904, Heflin was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat after the previous representative, Charles Winston Thompson, died. Four years later he shot and seriously wounded a black man who confronted him, while he was still in office. Although he was accused and charged for doing that, Heflin had the charges dismissed. In later campaigns, he bragged about the shooting as one of his major career accomplishments. later in life he became an Anti-Roman Catholic crusader and supporter of the white supremacy.