32 Facts About Terry Everett

Robert Terry Everett was an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district.

Terry Everett served from 1993 to his retirement in 2009.

On September 26,2007, Everett announced his intention to retire at the end of the 110th Congress after the 2008 elections.

Terry Everett was succeeded by Bobby Bright, the first Democrat to represent the district since William Louis Dickinson won it during the Barry Goldwater landslide in Alabama in 1964.

Terry Everett was born on February 15,1937, in Dothan, Alabama, the son of Bob and Thelma Terry Everett.

Terry Everett lived and attended school in Midland City, Alabama.

Terry Everett served as analyst for reconnaissance aircraft flights including the Lockheed U-2 which, as a congressman, he protected from defunding.

Terry Everett began a career in journalism after leaving the Air Force.

Terry Everett began as a reporter for the Dothan Eagle then became publisher and editor of the Graceville News and the Hartford News Herald.

In 1966, Terry Everett started weekly newspapers Down Home Today in Dothan and Daleville Today in Daleville.

Terry Everett expanded his weeklies to include The Enterpriser and The Army Flier at Fort Rucker.

Terry Everett later expanded into publishing dailies with The Daily Ledger in Enterprise and The Aurora Advertiser in Aurora, Missouri.

Terry Everett sold all of his newspaper holdings except the Union Springs Herald in 1988.

Terry Everett established Everett Land Development and served as president and chairman of the board of the Alabama Press Association, chairman of the board for Dothan Federal Savings Bank, president of the Daleville Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Environment Protection Commission for the Southeastern Region of the United States.

Terry Everett was likely helped by redistricting changes that moved many of the district's African American residents, particularly in Montgomery and Selma, to the 7th District to create a minority-majority district.

The district reverted to form in the 1994 Republican wave, and Terry Everett was reelected with 73 percent of the vote.

Terry Everett was reelected six more times after that with no substantive opposition.

Terry Everett had the highest lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union of any member of the Alabama delegation.

Terry Everett showed a concern about local issues and demonstrated a real impact on some issues that are vital to his constituency.

Terry Everett worked on military and veterans' issues.

In 1998, Congressman Terry Everett received the "Excellence in Programmatic Oversight Award" from the House Republican Leadership for his Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee probe into improper burial waivers at Arlington National Cemetery.

Terry Everett focused on improving space acquisition and procurement programs and beginning a national debate on space protection.

Terry Everett spearheaded key legislative initiatives in national security space, including development of a space protection strategy, management of the space cadre and space acquisition personnel, and establishment of the Operationally Responsive Space Office.

Terry Everett held frequent hearings and classified briefings on space control, threats, acquisition and procurement challenges, space cadre, and space policy.

When Republicans on the House Intelligence Panel attempted to defund the classified spacecraft Boeing X-37 program, Terry Everett led the panel's Democratic members and two of his fellow Republicans to kill the defunding amendment.

Terry Everett defeated a Republican amendment to halt funding for Cobra Judy in the Intelligence Committee.

Subsequently, Terry Everett became the first active or retired member of Congress to participate in an Air Force space war game, and was appointed to the role of President of the United States.

When Secretary Clinton resigned in 2013, Terry Everett resigned from ISAB, but newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry "respectfully declined" Terry Everett's resignation.

Kerry urged Terry Everett to continue serving as a member of the Board working on "some of our most important diplomatic and international security challenges".

In February 2007, Terry Everett co-sponsored a house bill with Ron Paul of Texas to end United States membership in the United Nations.

Terry Everett thought for a moment: 'One's in one location, another's in another location.

Terry Everett died at home on March 12,2024, at the age of 87.