Robert Stell Heflin was legislator

Legislator

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 from Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

. Heflin, who was born in Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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, started his life as a court clerk and a lawyer. He then became a state representative in the state of Georgia. After one year, he moved to Randolph County, Alabama, where he became a state representative in 1849, and a state senator in 1860. From there, he was elected to the United States Congress

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 as a member of the House of Representatives

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 in 1869. Robert Heflin died in 1901 in Alabama.

He was the uncle of Alabama Senator James Thomas Heflin and granduncle of Alabama Senator Howell Heflin

Howell Heflin

Howell Thomas Heflin was a United States Senator from Tuscumbia, Alabama, and a member of the Democratic Party.-Biography:...

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