1. Samuel Francis Hobbs was a United States Representative from Alabama.
10 Facts About Sam Hobbs
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Sam Hobbs was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Selma.
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Sam Hobbs was appointed judge of the fourth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1921.
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Sam Hobbs served as chairman of the Muscle Shoals Commission in 1931 and of the Alabama National Recovery Administration Committee in 1933.
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Sam Hobbs was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses.
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Sam Hobbs passed a bill that would have deported labour leader Harry Bridges.
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Sam Hobbs successfully introduced the Hobbs Act of 1946, which criminalized at least three distinct forms of criminal conduct: robbery, extortion by force, fear or threat, and extortion under color of law.
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Sam Hobbs formed a friendship with Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel while living in Washington DC.
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Sam Hobbs did not seek renomination in 1950, but returned to Selma, Alabama and reestablished his law practice.
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Sam Hobbs died in Selma in 1952 and was interred in Live Oak Cemetery.