Fred L. Blackmon

Fred Leonard Blackmon (September 15, 1873 - February 8, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Born at Lime Branch, Georgia, Blackmon moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1883.He attended the public schools in Dearmanville and Choccolocco, the State normal college at Jacksonville, Alabama, Douglasville (Georgia) College, and Mountain City Business College, Chattanooga, Tennessee.He was graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1894.He was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in Anniston, Alabama. City attorney for Anniston 1898-1902.He served as member of the State senate 1900-1910.He served as chairman of the congressional committee for the fourth Alabama district from 1906 until 1910, when he resigned.

Blackmon was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911. Had also been reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress.He died in Bartow, Florida, on February 8, 1921.He was interred in the Hillside Cemetery, Anniston, Alabama.

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