Ann Bedsole
| Ann Smith Bedsole | |
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| Alabama State Representative from District 101 (Mobile) | |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Sonny Callahan |
| Succeeded by | Ken Kvalheim |
| Alabama State Senator from District 34 (Mobile) | |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Sonny Callahan |
| Succeeded by | Hap Myers |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 7, 1930 Selma, Dallas County Alabama, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Massey Palmer Bedsole, Jr. (married 1958-2006, his death) |
| Children |
Margaret Loraine "Raine" Bedsole |
| Parents |
Malcolm White Smith |
| Residence | Mobile, Alabama |
| Alma mater | University of Denver |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Religion | United Methodist Church |
Margaret Loraine "Raine" Bedsole
Mary Martin Riser
Malcolm White Smith
Ann Smith Bedsole (born January 7, 1930), is a businesswoman, philanthropist, and a Republican politician from Mobile, Alabama. She is the first Republican woman to have been elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, in which she served from 1979 to 1983, and the first female ever elected to the Alabama State Senate, in which her tenure extended from 1983 to 1995.
Bedsole is a daughter of the late Malcolm White Smith and the former Sybil Huey. Born in Selma in Dallas County in south central Alabama, Bedsole was reared partly in Jackson in Clarke County in southwestern Alabama. She studied at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
She was married to the businessman-philanthropist Massey Palmer Bedsole, Jr. (1928-2006), a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. He was awarded the 2004 "Outstanding Citizen Award of Mobile" because of his work with the Centre for the Living Arts, which operates Space 301, an art gallery in the former Mobile Press-Register building, and the Saenger Theatre in the Lower Dauphin Street Historic District in downtown Mobile. He died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-seven at the Bedsole Farms in Monroe County north of Mobile.
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