Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937) is an American politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Alabama's 2nd congressional district.
On September 26, 2007, Everett announced his intention to retire at the end of the 110th Congress. He was succeeded by Bobby Bright, who is the first Democrat to represent the district since 1965.
Everett was born in Dothan as the oldest so...
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Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937) is an American politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Alabama's 2nd congressional district.
On September 26, 2007, Everett announced his intention to retire at the end of the 110th Congress. He was succeeded by Bobby Bright, who is the first Democrat to represent the district since 1965.
Everett was born in Dothan as the oldest son of a sharecropper and railroad worker. Both of his parents died at an early age, and Everett had to work two jobs to help his two brothers and sister. After graduating high school, he served four years in the Air Force as an intelligence specialist in Europe, where he learned Russian, and then worked a sports and police beat reporter for the Dothan Eagle. He eventually became owner of a chain of newspapers in the Southeast, as well as a large farm and a real estate development. He sold all but one of his holdings in 1988.
In 1992, Bill...
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