John Hall Buchanan Jr.
| John Hall Buchanan Jr. | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 6th district |
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In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | George Huddleston Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Albert L. Smith Jr. |
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March 19, 1928 Paris, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Buchanan |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence |
Birmingham, Alabama (1965–1981) Bethesda, Maryland (1981–present) |
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| Service/branch | United States Navy |
John Hall Buchanan Jr. (born March 19, 1928) is a Republican former U.S. representative from Alabama's 6th congressional district.
A native of Paris, Tennessee, Buchanan served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946 and then relocated to Alabama to attend Samford University in Birmingham. After his graduation, Buchanan did graduate work at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, before he transferred to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1957, he graduated from the seminary and served as pastor of churches in Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia.
In 1962, Buchanan, while still an active pastor in Birmingham, was one of three unsuccessful Republican candidates for Congress. The U.S. House candidates that year ran statewide. Because state law required that voters support eight candidates for their ballot to count, the Republicans had to back five Democrats, who were technically their at-large opponents, or to write in the names of five Republicans who were not official candidates, a process that proved too burdensome to overcome. The congressional race corresponded with the controversial admission of James Meredith, who became the first African American in history to graduate from the University of Mississippi in neighboring Mississippi. Buchanan said that the Alabama congressional delegation had responded to the desegregation crisis "only after intense pressure from the home folks. ... they nodded their heads 'yes' when the Kennedys asked them to, and have come back home and denied they were national Democrats." Buchanan led the three-candidate field in 1962 with 141,202 votes but failed to dislodge the eighth-place Democratic candidate, Representative Carl Elliott of Jasper.
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