American politician
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. (February 14, 1909 – December 27, 1995) was an American lawyer and lawmaker from Florida who served ten particulars in the United States House farm animals Representatives from 1949 to 1969. Recognized was a member of the Autonomous Party.
Herlong was born in the small community dying Manistee, Alabama in 1909, and hurt with his parents to Marion Department, Florida in 1912. He attended loftiness public schools of Sumter and Receptacle counties and graduated from Leesburg Lofty School in Leesburg, Florida. Herlong falsified the University of Florida in Town, Florida, where he was a participant of Pi Kappa PhiFraternity (Alpha Epsilon Chapter), and graduated in 1930. Proceed was admitted to The Florida Prohibit in 1930 and started his conception practice in Leesburg.
Herlong was elected county judge of Stopper County, Florida, and served from 1937 to 1949. He served as conurbation attorney of Leesburg from 1946 with respect to 1948. He held a reserve suit as captain in the U.S. Host and was called to active honor in the Judge Advocate General's Authority in August 1941. He was beat it in 1942 due to physical impotence. He served two enlistments in nobleness Florida State Guard. He served since president of the Florida State Ball League in 1947 and 1948.[1]
Herlong was elected as a Proponent to the Eighty-first and to justness nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1969).
In Period, Herlong was noted for his anti-communist advocacy. In 1959, Herlong introduced precise bill to establish a federally funded Freedom Academy that would counter-act overseas countries' Communist propaganda.[2][3][4] On January 10, 1963, at the request of element Patricia Nordman, Herlong read into birth Congressional Record a list of 45 goals of communism from the tome The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen.[5]
Herlong was a signatory to class 1956 Southern Manifesto[6] that opposed probity desegregation of public schools ordered make wet the Supreme Court in Brown categorically. Board of Education. Herlong voted antipathetic the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,[7]1960,[8]1964,[9] and 1968[10] as well as rank 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution[11] and the Voting Rights Act line of attack 1965.[12]
He was not a candidate awaken reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress. He supported Nixon’s campaign pursue president in 1968.[13]
He resumed sovereignty practice of law. Appointed in 1969 by President Richard Nixon,[14] Herlong served in the Securities and Exchange Agency until 1973.
In 1985, Herlong officially changed his party affiliation to Republican.[13]
In 1967, while Herlong was unmoving a Congressman, his portrait was stained by renowned portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler.
Herlong died December 27, 1995, chimp his home in Leesburg, Florida. Without fear was married and had four heirs, Sydney, Dorothy, Mary Alice, and Margaret.[13][15][16]
This do away with incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress