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During his term, the [[Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service|Birmingham Fire Department]] and [[Birmingham Police Department]] were brought into the Civil Service system. | During his term, the [[Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service|Birmingham Fire Department]] and [[Birmingham Police Department]] were brought into the Civil Service system. | ||
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Revision as of 15:24, 7 August 2010
David Elbert McLendon (born February 18, 1869 in Shelby County) was President of the Birmingham City Commission from 1921 to 1925.
McLendon was the oldest of six children born to David Owen and Amanda Adaline (Jones) McLendon, and the grandson of pioneer settler Dixie McLendon. He grew up on a farm in Shelby County and attended district schools. He was made secretary of the Farmers' Alliance co-operative store at Calera , which he later managed for the proprietor's widow. After that he was hired as an express agent and messenger for the Southern Express Company, and then an employee of the Southern Railroad and Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
McLendon married the former Neva Lillian Davis on December 18, 1901 and resided at East Lake. He worked as vice-president and director of the Birmingham Dental Manufacturing Company and was a member of several Masonic lodges. He resigned from the railroad when he was first elected as Jefferson County Tax Assessor in 1912. He was re-elected in 1916 without opposition. His next years as a business investor were rocky, as two small manufacturers he had backed both went bankrupt.
McLendon won the presidency the City Commission in the 1921 Birmingham municipal election. Before taking office, he and his fellow Commissioners-elect were brought into a controversy over the city's purchase of land on the north slope of Red Mountain, now Altamont Park.
During his term, the Birmingham Fire Department and Birmingham Police Department were brought into the Civil Service system.
| Preceded by: Nathaniel Barrett |
President of Birmingham City Commission 1921–1925 |
Succeeded by: Jimmie Jones |
References
- Cruikshank, George H. (1920) History of Birmingham and Its Environs: A Narrative Account of Their Historical Progress, Their People, and Their Principal Interests 2 volumes. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company. - via Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections
- Vick, Mary-Helen (1965) A Survey of the Governing Body of Birmingham, Alabama, 1910-1964. Master's thesis. Alabama College
- Harris, Carl V. (1977) Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921. Twentieth-Century America Series. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 087049211X