![]() Peterson "Pete" Bryant Jarman Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army Member of Congress - U.S. Ambassador |
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Courtesy
of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Representative from Alabama; born in Greensboro,
Hale County, Ala., on October 31, 1892; attended the public schools, the
Normal College, Livingston, Ala., and Southern University, Greensboro,
Ala.; was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1913,
and attended the University of Montpellier, France, in 1919; clerk in probate
office in Sumter County, Ala., 1913-1917; during the First World War served
overseas as second and first lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh
Infantry; served in the Alabama National Guard as inspector general with
rank of major 1922-1924, and as division inspector of the Thirty-first
Infantry Division with rank of lieutenant colonel 1924-1940; assistant
State examiner of accounts 1919-1930; secretary of state of Alabama 1931-1934;
assistant State comptroller in 1935 and 1936; member of the State Democratic
executive committee of Alabama 1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January
3, 1949); chairman, Committee on Memorials (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1948; appointed by President Harry S Truman
as Ambassador to Australia on June 8, 1949, and served until July 31, 1953;
died in Washington, D.C., February 17, 1955; interment in Arlington National
Cemetery.
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