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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Armistead I Selden Jr news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message Armistead Inge Selden Jr February 20 1921 November 14 1985 was a segregationist U S Representative from Alabama Armistead I Selden Jr Member of theU S House of Representativesfrom AlabamaIn office January 3 1953 January 3 1969Preceded byEdward deGraffenriedSucceeded byWalter FlowersConstituency6th district 1953 63 At large 1963 65 5th district 1965 69 Member of the Alabama House of RepresentativesIn office 1951 1952United States Ambassador to FijiIn office March 1 1974 April 17 1978PresidentRichard NixonGerald FordJimmy CarterPreceded byKenneth Franzheim IISucceeded byJohn P CondonUnited States Ambassador to New ZealandIn office April 22 1974 April 23 1979PresidentGerald FordJimmy CarterPreceded byKenneth Franzheim IISucceeded byAnne Clark MartindellUnited States Ambassador to SamoaIn office April 22 1974 April 23 1979PresidentGerald FordJimmy CarterPreceded byKenneth Franzheim IISucceeded byAnne Clark MartindellPersonal detailsBornArmistead Inge Selden Jr 1921 02 20 February 20 1921Greensboro AlabamaDiedNovember 14 1985 1985 11 14 aged 64 Birmingham AlabamaPolitical partyRepublican 1979 1985 Other politicalaffiliationsDemocratic before 1979 Armistead I Selden right with Wernher von Braun 1968 Contents 1 Early life and military service 2 Congressional and diplomatic career 3 References 4 External linksEarly life and military service editBorn in Greensboro Alabama Selden attended the public schools He graduated from Greensboro High School in 1938 and from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee in 1942 He served in the United States Navy from August 1942 until March 1946 with 31 months aboard ship primarily in the North Atlantic and was discharged as a lieutenant He served as lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve He entered the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated in 1948 He was admitted to the bar in 1948 and commenced practice in Greensboro Alabama He served as member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1951 and 1952 Congressional and diplomatic career editSelden was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty third Congress He was reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses January 3 1953 January 3 1969 While in Congress he was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto 1 that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education Selden voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 2 1960 3 1964 4 and 1968 5 as well as the 24th Amendment to the U S Constitution 6 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 7 Selden served as a member of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and as head of the now defunct US House Inter American Affairs Committee Following the Cuban Revolution in 1958 led by Fidel Castro Selden was influential in the passage of the October 19 1960 United States embargo against Cuba and their expulsion from the Organization of American States on January 31 1962 He also represented the US at the inauguration of Anastasio Somoza in 1967 He was not a candidate in 1968 for reelection to the United States House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate losing the Democratic primary to former Lieutenant Governor James Allen He resumed the practice of law until October 1970 He served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense International Security Affairs October 1970 February 1973 and as U S Ambassador to New Zealand Fiji The Kingdom of Tonga and Western Samoa from 1974 to 1979 He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for nomination in the United States Senate election in Alabama 1980 He served as president of the American League for Exports and Security Assistance from 1980 to 1985 He was a resident of Greensboro Alabama and Falls Church Virginia until he died of cancer in Birmingham Alabama November 14 1985 He was interred in Greensboro City Cemetery Greensboro Alabama A I Selden Dam built in 1958 on Alabama s Black Warrior River bears his name 8 References editUnited States Congress Armistead I Selden Jr id S000232 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2009 03 02 Senate March 12 1956 PDF Congressional Record 102 4 U S Government Printing Office 4459 4461 HR 6127 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 GovTrack us HR 8601 PASSAGE H R 7152 PASSAGE TO PASS H R 2516 A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR House Vote 113 Aug 16 1967 GovTrack us Retrieved 2024 01 11 S J RES 29 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS GovTrack us TO PASS H R 6400 THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT Archived copy Archived from the original on 2012 08 20 Retrieved 2012 08 19 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Archives of Sewanee The University of The SouthExternal links edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Politics portal Armistead I Selden Jr Find a Grave Retrieved 2009 03 02 nbsp This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress U S House of RepresentativesPreceded byEdward deGraffenried Member of the U S House of Representatives from Alabama s 6th congressional district1953 1963 Succeeded byDistrict inactivePreceded byDistrict inactive Member of the U S House of Representatives from Alabama s at large congressional district1963 1965 Succeeded byDistrict inactivePreceded byDistrict inactive Member of the U S House of Representatives from Alabama s 5th congressional district1965 1969 Succeeded byWalter FlowersDiplomatic postsPreceded byKenneth Franzheim II United States Ambassador to Fiji1974 1978 Succeeded byJohn Peter CondonPreceded byKenneth Franzheim II U S Ambassador to New Zealand1974 1979 Succeeded byAnne Clark Martindell Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Armistead I Selden Jr amp oldid 1214635238, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,