Alfred Goldthwaite
| Alfred Witherspoon Goldthwaite, Sr. | |
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| Alabama State Representative from Montgomery | |
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In office 1958–1966 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 12, 1921 Montgomery, Alabama, USA |
| Died | May 13, 1997 (aged 75) |
| Resting place | Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican (1964) |
| Spouse(s) | Evelyn Adams Goldthwaite |
| Children |
Alfred W. Goldthwaite, Jr. |
| Parents |
Archibald "Archie" Arrington (uncle-guardian) |
| Residence | Montgomery, Alabama |
| Alma mater | Law school missing |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Alfred W. Goldthwaite, Jr.
Mary Arrington Goldthwaite Perry
Archibald "Archie" Arrington (uncle-guardian)
Alfred Witherspoon Goldthwaite, Sr. (August 12, 1921–May 13, 1997), was an attorney from his native Montgomery, Alabama, who as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives became the first public official in his state to defect in the early 1960s from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
Goldthwaite was descended from George Goldthwaite, the founder of a political family who came to Alabama from Massachusetts in the early 19th century and served during the 1870s as a member of the United States Senate. Alfred Goldthwaite was born in the historic Goldthwaite-Arrington Home in Montgomery and reared and totally supported financially by his guardian and uncle by marriage, Archibald "Archie" Arrington (September 13, 1874–May 27, 1946). His aunt was Olivia Goldthwaite Arrington (August 10, 1868–August 7, 1946). The Goldthwaites and the Arringtons had a financial interest in both the Durr Drug Company and the Alabama National Bank in Montgomery, but Alfred Goldthwaite himself was not on the payroll of either firm. In 1940, Goldthwaite graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery.
Goldthwaite and his wife, the former Evelyn Adams, an educator and a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who died in 2003, had three children, Alfred W. Goldthwaite, Jr., of Montgomery, Mary Arrington Goldthwaite Perry and husband Dudley, also of Montgomery, and Ellen Adams Goldthwaite of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Goldthwaites are interred along with other family members at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery.
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