1. Dale Alford attended public schools at Rector in Clay County in far northeastern Arkansas.
16 Facts About Dale Alford
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Dale Alford graduated from high school in 1932, a year ahead of schedule.
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Dale Alford served as a captain during World War II in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1940 to 1946.
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Dale Alford was on active duty as a surgeon in the European Theater of operations.
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Dale Alford was elected as a write-in candidate in the 1958 general election that occurred in the aftermath of the Little Rock Crisis.
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Dale Alford was only the second write-in candidate ever to have been elected to the House.
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Dale Alford supporters printed thousands of stickers with his name on them and handed them out at polling places.
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Ultimately, Dale Alford prevailed, 30,739 to Hays' 29,483.
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In 1960, Alford won his second term in the House with 57,617 votes to Republican L J Churchill of Dover in Pope County in northwestern Arkansas, who received 12,054 ballots.
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Dale Alford had been state chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Rather than face certain defeat in the 1962 Democratic primary against Mills, at the time an icon in Arkansas politics, Dale Alford instead chose to enter the primary against incumbent Governor Orval Faubus.
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Dale Alford ran for governor again in 1966 and finished fourth with 53,531 votes.
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Dale Alford received fewer voters than his old nemesis Brooks Hays, who with 64,814 finished third in the primary balloting.
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In 1984, Dale Alford entered the Democratic primary election for Congress in Central Arkansas's Second District for the open seat being vacated by Republican Ed Bethune.
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Dale Alford, was far outpolled by African-American Thedford Collins, a Little Rock banker and former aide to US Senator David Pryor.
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Dale Alford died in Little Rock of congestive heart failure on January 25,2000, three days shy of his eighty-third birthday.