Terry Everett
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Robert Terry Everett (born February 15 1937), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 2nd District of Alabama (map (http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/al02_109.gif)). The district includes the entire southeastern portion of the state, including Dothan, Enterprise, Opp and a portion of Montgomery.
Everett was born in Dothan as the oldest son of a sharecropper and railroad worker. Both died at an early age, and Everett had to work two jobs to help his two brothers and sister. After graduating high school, he served four years in the Air Force as an intelligence specialist in Europe. Shortly after returning to the States, he became a reporter at the Dothan Eagle and eventually became owner of a chain of newspapers in the Southeast. He sold all but one of his holdings in 1988.
The 2nd District had been one of five Alabama districts to fall into Republican hands as Barry Goldwater carried the state in the 1964 presidential election, when Bill Dickinson won the seat. He retired in 1992, and it was widely expected that the race to succeed him would be between Democratic state treasurer George Wallace, Jr. (son of the former governor) and Republican state senator Larry Dixon. However, Everett scored two major upsets to take the seat. First, he upset Dixon in the Republican primary, winning by 15 points. Then he defeated Wallace by just over a point in November. (Wallace, Jr. later became a Republican and currently serves on the state Public Service Commission.) Everett was reelected with 73 percent of the vote in the 1994 Republican wave and has not faced serious opposition since then.
Everett is chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, and vice-chairman of the Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence. He lives in Rehobeth, just outside Enterprise.
External link
- Official website (http://www.house.gov/everett/)