Title
Walter Flowers, 1933-1984
Subject
Legislators
Description
Walter Flowers was a conservative Democrat who represented Alabama's 7th Congressional District from 1968 to 1976.
Flowers was born in Greenville, Alabama, in 1933. He attended public schools in Tuscaloosa and earned degrees from the University of Alabama. He studied international law as a fellow at the University of London. Flowers held a commission as a Reserve Lieutenant officer in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence and practiced law in Alabama before being elected to Congress.
Flowers was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings of 1974.
Said to have agonized over impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon, he voted for two out of the three impeachment articles. He found constituents supported his decision.
In 1978, he ran for Sen. John Sparkman's seat but lost in the primary to Howell Heflin who accused him of being "part and parcel of that Washington crowd".
After leaving Congress, he worked as a lawyer in Washington and, in 1979, joined faculty at the University of Alabama as a visiting distinguished professor.
At the time of his death at 51 in 1984, he was survived by his wife, Beverly Burns Flowers; three children, Vivian Flowers Porter of Birmingham, Waller III of Tuscaloosa and Victor of McLean, Va., and his father, Walter W. Flowers Sr. of Northport.
Flowers was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
Flowers was born in Greenville, Alabama, in 1933. He attended public schools in Tuscaloosa and earned degrees from the University of Alabama. He studied international law as a fellow at the University of London. Flowers held a commission as a Reserve Lieutenant officer in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence and practiced law in Alabama before being elected to Congress.
Flowers was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings of 1974.
Said to have agonized over impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon, he voted for two out of the three impeachment articles. He found constituents supported his decision.
In 1978, he ran for Sen. John Sparkman's seat but lost in the primary to Howell Heflin who accused him of being "part and parcel of that Washington crowd".
After leaving Congress, he worked as a lawyer in Washington and, in 1979, joined faculty at the University of Alabama as a visiting distinguished professor.
At the time of his death at 51 in 1984, he was survived by his wife, Beverly Burns Flowers; three children, Vivian Flowers Porter of Birmingham, Waller III of Tuscaloosa and Victor of McLean, Va., and his father, Walter W. Flowers Sr. of Northport.
Flowers was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
Source
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Date
Circa 1960's
Contributor
Jordan Bannister (Description)
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Photograph
Identifier
849
Coverage
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Original Format
Photograph