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Dr Zadoc Lorenzo Dow Weatherford

Birth: 4 Feb 1888
Vina, Franklin County, Alabama, USA
Death: 21 May 1983 (aged 95)
Red Bay, Franklin County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Red Bay Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 31542667 View Source

Congressman. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Memphis, M.D. in 1914. He practiced medicine until World War I in which he served as a battalion surgeon in the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry. He received the Purple Heart Medal and was discharged on October 6, 1920,. He served in the State senate from 1939 until he was elected as a Decmocrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B. Bankhead. He served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941 but he was not a candidate for the full term. He retired from active medical practice January 1, 1958 and ran for mayor of Red Bay, Ala., 1945-1948. He was elected vice chairman for the Franklin County Democratic Committee, 1933-1937.

He was the son of Leander Jackson Weatherford and Lucinda Adalia Ritter.

Congressman. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Tennessee at Memphis, M.D. in 1914. He practiced medicine until World War I in which he served as a battalion surgeon in the Three Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry. He received the Purple Heart Medal and was discharged on October 6, 1920,. He served in the State senate from 1939 until he was elected as a Decmocrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B. Bankhead. He served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941 but he was not a candidate for the full term. He retired from active medical practice January 1, 1958 and ran for mayor of Red Bay, Ala., 1945-1948. He was elected vice chairman for the Franklin County Democratic Committee, 1933-1937.

He was the son of Leander Jackson Weatherford and Lucinda Adalia Ritter.

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Created by: C
Added: Nov 19, 2008
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