Miles C. Allgood

Miles Clayton Allgood (February 22, 1878 – March 4, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.

Born in Chepultepec (now Allgood), Blount County, Alabama, Allgood attended the common schools of his native county and was graduated from the State Normal College at Florence, Alabama (now the University of North Alabama), in 1898. He taught school in Blount County. He then was the tax assessor of Blount County, Alabama from 1900 to 1909. He served as member of the State Democratic executive committee 1908-1910. Blount County agricultural demonstration agent 1910-1913. State auditor of Alabama 1914-1918. State commissioner of agriculture and industries 1918-1922.

Allgood was elected as a delegate at large from Alabama to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920.

Allgood was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935). He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934. He served as a member of the Farm Security Administration from September 4, 1935, until he retired on December 1, 1943. Made an unsuccessful campaign for State treasurer in 1954. He retired. He died in Fort Payne, Alabama, March 4, 1977. He was interred in Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, Alabama.

References

• Miles C. Allgood at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Miles C. Allgood at Find-A-Grave

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Name	Allgood, Miles Clayton
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Date of birth	February 22, 1878
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Date of death	March 4, 1977
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