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Tom Donald Fike Bevill (March 27, 1921 – March 28, 2005) was an American attorney, politician, and Democratic fifteen-term U.S. congressman who represented Alabama's 4th Congressional District and Alabama's 7th congressional district from 1967 to 1997. Early years and education Bevill was born in Townley, Alabama, on March 27, 1921. He attended Walker County High School, the University of Alabama School of Commerce and Business Administration, and the University of Alabama School of Law. Bevill was an initiate of the Gamma Alpha chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha at UA. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He also privately practiced law. Political career In 1958, Bevill was elected to the Alabama Legislature, serving there until his election to Congress in 1966. In Congress, Bevill was known for securing federal money and development projects for his district. This earned him the nickname "The King of Pork", a term which he actually turned into a positive. After fifteen terms in Congress, he retired in 1997. Bevill is credited with answering the world's very first 9-1-1 emergency call on February 16, 1968, made from Haleyville by then-Alabama House Speaker Rankin Fite at the invitation of the Alabama Telephone Company. He also sponsored the Bevill Amendment to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act which excludes mining wastes from the act's jurisdiction. Personal life Bevill died on March 28, 2005, in Jasper, Alabama, the day after his 84th birthday. He had been in declining health for several years due to heart problems.His son Don Bevill ran for his old seat in 1998. He lost 56%-44% to his father's Republican successor Robert Aderholt. References External links United States Congress. "Tom Bevill (id: B000431)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the C L Bevill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular C L Bevill books.

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  • Bubba and the Wacky Wedding Wickedness synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Wacky Wedding Wickedness

    C.L. Bevill

    It’s the day of Bubba and Willodean’s wedding day. The sun is shining. There isn’t a cloud in the sky. The pergola is decorated in high style with baby’s breath and ribbons streami...

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    Crescent Moon

    C.L. Bevill

    Ula is a wolf shifter who was kidnapped from the northern woods of Manitoba. Although she was freed from her captivity by the Cat Clan of Colorado, her sister is still missing. In ...

  • The Flight of the Scarlet Tanager synopsis, comments

    The Flight of the Scarlet Tanager

    C.L. Bevill

    Teddy is a young woman who rescues a boy from drowning in a public manner. But she is also on the run for her life from men who who do anything to prevent the secrets she is carryi...

  • Bubba and the Zigzaggery Zombies synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Zigzaggery Zombies

    C.L. Bevill

    It’s trouble as usual for Bubba. His mother, Miz Demetrice, and her good friend, Miz Adelia, are up to no good with the DEA watching them for mysterious reasons. In addition, Bubba...

  • Blackteeth synopsis, comments

    Blackteeth

    C.L. Bevill

    If you’re close enough to see the color of its sharp, pitch colored teeth…Hesper had been too close. Along with five other children, she vanished without so much as a shred of clot...

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    Bubba and the Late Lamented Lassie

    C.L. Bevill

    What could possibly go wrong?Bubba Snoddy is a good ol’ boy with a wonderful family. His beauteous wife, a sheriff’s deputy, Willodean, is wondrous, his baby has starting sleeping ...

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    The Bubba Mysteries Novels

    C.L. Bevill

    Bubba Snoddy is a good ol' boy from the rurality of Texas. Unfortunately, stuff seems to happen to him in the form of dead bodies and mysteries galore.Previously published individu...

  • The Life and Death of Bayou Billy synopsis, comments

    The Life and Death of Bayou Billy

    C.L. Bevill

    William ‘Bayou Billy’ McCall is an infamous outlaw who dies ignominiously at a very old age. He leaves behind a mixed history of antiheroism and unethical immorality in the form of...

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    The Bureau of Extraordinaires

    C.L. Bevill

    Major Silas Deveraux will never be the same after enduring terrible experiments performed by mad scientists during the Civil War. In the aftermath he joins the newly formed Bureau ...

  • Bubba and the Mysterious Murder Note synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Mysterious Murder Note

    C.L. Bevill

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Pegramville…Oh no! Bubba's got problems…again! For months, Pegramville and Pegram County have been relatively peaceful. But then the...

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    Ruins of Dreams

    C.L. Bevill

    On one day everything was normal. The next morning billions of people had vanished, and new magical creatures had appeared, altering not only the Earth but everyone who woke up on ...

  • Bubba and the Curious Cadaver synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Curious Cadaver

    C.L. Bevill

    What does a gentlemen’s club, mysterious men in black, a dead body, a broken down car with a lady in dire need, a heavily pregnant beauteous sheriff’s deputy, and Miz Demetrice try...

  • The Ransom of Brownie synopsis, comments

    The Ransom of Brownie

    C.L. Bevill

    It started out as a nice day. Then Brownie happened. Watch out, Pegram County!Brownie has returned to the Snoddy Estate. His mother is seven months pregnant, ordered to bed rest an...

  • Missile Rats synopsis, comments

    Missile Rats

    C.L. Bevill

    In the early eighties Richard Skeet is seeking an escape from his life and from his mother’s control. His world is not dismal, but bordering upon dismal. He works in a pipe yard. H...

  • Bubba and the Dead Guy synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Dead Guy

    C.L. Bevill

    Bubba is on a beach vacation with Willodean and baby Gray when what happens? A dead body, of course. Then things really get chaotic. Bubba won the vacation in a radio giveaway but ...

  • Bubba and the Missing Woman synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Missing Woman

    C.L. Bevill

    Quite naturally, Bubba's got another problem. The woman he likes, a lot, is missing. Folks 'round Pegramville don't have an inkling whether Bubba done did anything this time. In fa...

  • Crimson Bayou synopsis, comments

    Crimson Bayou

    C.L. Bevill

    Crimson rays from the sun's morning light shine on an isolated bayou and expose the body of a young woman.Mignon Thibeaux, a renowned artist and recently returned local, is adaptin...

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    Bubba and the Curse of the Boogity-Boo

    C.L. Bevill

    It’s two weeks until Bubba’s wife, Willodean, is due to have their baby, the moon may or may not be full, his mother, Miz Demetrice, is up to her old tricks, some movie people are ...

  • Disembodied Bones synopsis, comments

    Disembodied Bones

    C.L. Bevill

    Leonie Simoneaud was once one of the elusive Lake People, Acadian descendants in Louisiana with odd psychic powers. As a thirteenyearold she rescued an outsider child, Douglas Tren...

  • Dragon Moon synopsis, comments

    Dragon Moon

    C.L. Bevill

    Kale was once halfhuman and halfsomething magical. Now he’s a grizzly shifter and the world is a very different place. He was also trapped in a shadow realm where he found the love...

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    Shadow People

    C.L. Bevill

    Penelope Quick is a thief who has just broken into the wrong house. She steals ancient AmericanIndian artifacts and discovers that there is a hidden world of magic, blood, and shap...

  • Blood Moon synopsis, comments

    Blood Moon

    C.L. Bevill

    Sage Ingram has been changed to a werecougar against her will, kidnapped, and locked in Under, a magickal place with monstrous creatures so alarming, she’s shaking in her paws.Per ...

  • Veiled Eyes synopsis, comments

    Veiled Eyes

    C.L. Bevill

    Anna St. Thais has always wondered who she was; an orphan or abandoned child. As she travels to New Orleans she quickly realizes that the dreams she's had of a strangely attractive...

  • Mountains of Dreams synopsis, comments

    Mountains of Dreams

    C.L. Bevill

    Once the world was normal. The day after the change, there were new creatures galore and nearly every human had vanished. The survivors gathered together to make a new society and ...

  • Harvest Moon synopsis, comments

    Harvest Moon

    C.L. Bevill

    Emma is a member of the Cat Clan. She is an animal shifter who was brutally turned when she was only fourteen years old. Wheeler is the leader of the Cat Clan. He is another shifte...

  • Forest of Dreams synopsis, comments

    Forest of Dreams

    C.L. Bevill

    On one day everything was normal. The next morning billions of people had vanished, and new magical creatures had appeared, altering not only the Earth but everyone who woke up on ...

  • Brownie and the Dame synopsis, comments

    Brownie and the Dame

    C.L. Bevill

    Brownie Snoddy is visiting the Snoddy Mansion for Spring Break! Where Brownie goes, mayhem is sure to follow. Possibly destruction, terror, pandemonium, and anarchy might follow, t...

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    Deadsville

    C.L. Bevill

    Tavie has just died, but that isn’t the end of her existence. Instead, she ends up “living” in Deadsville, where the dead play games, look for entertainment, and wonder when they w...

  • Bubba and the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas

    C.L. Bevill

    Bubba Snoddy's got some problems. His family has descended for the Christmas holidays and not in a good way. His cousin wants to own the Snoddy Mansion, decrepit, falling down colu...

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    Bubba and the Dead Woman

    C.L. Bevill

    Bubba is a good old boy with lots of problems. His exfiancee is deader than a door nail and everyone thinks he dun did it. His house is haunted. His mother is running an illegal ga...

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    Sea of Dreams

    C.L. Bevill

    In a single night, everyone has vanished. Only Sophie remains, a typical seventeen year old girl from Oregon. While hiking with her father, she goes to sleep one night and wakes up...

  • Bubba and the Ten Little Loonies synopsis, comments

    Bubba and the Ten Little Loonies

    C.L. Bevill

    Bubba is in the midst of wedding planning, or rather, Bubba is the midst of evading the wedding planner, when trouble comes looking for him. David Beathard AKA The Purple Singapore...