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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Comer, Braxton Bragg
Comer, Braxton Bragg, a Senator from Alabama; born in Spring Hill, Barbour (now Mobile) County, Ala., November 7, 1848; attended the common schools, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the University of Georgia at Athens; was graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., in 1869; engaged as a planter, merchant, hanker, and cotton manufacturer; member of the commissioners’ court of Barbour County, Ala., 1874-1880; moved to Anniston, Ala., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Birmingham, Ala., in 1890 and became president of the City National Bank and the Birmingham Corn & Flour Mills; later became president of the Avondale Cotton Mills and served in that capacity until his death; president of the Railroad Commission of Alabama in 1905 and 1906; Governor of Alabama 1907-1911; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Bankhead and served from March 5 to November 2, 1920, when a successor was elected; resumed his former business pursuits in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., and died there August 15, 1927; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Comer, Braxton Bragg," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1006 Original Sources, accessed February 14, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GXGHKNX7Y93M7K5.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Comer, Braxton Bragg." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1006, Original Sources. 14 Feb. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GXGHKNX7Y93M7K5.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Comer, Braxton Bragg' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1006. Original Sources, retrieved 14 February 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GXGHKNX7Y93M7K5.
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