Miles Clayton Allgood (February 22, 1878 – March 4, 1977) was an American politician and a

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Biography

Born in Chepultepec (now Allgood),

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, Allgood was the son of William Barnett and Mary Matilda (Ingram) Allgood. He attended the common schools of his native county and was graduated from the State Normal College at

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), in 1898. He married Willie Randall Fox on February 1, 1917; and was a cousin of Clarence William Allgood.

Career

Allgood taught school in Blount County. He became the tax assessor of

from 1900 to 1909, and was a member of the State Democratic executive committee from 1908 to 1910. He served as Blount County agricultural demonstration agent from 1910 to 1913; State auditor of Alabama from 1914 to 1918; and as State commissioner of agriculture and industries from 1918 to 1922. He was elected as a delegate at large from Alabama to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920. Allgood was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1935. He was chairman of the Committee on War Claims ( Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses). Allgood was a proponent of establishing a minimum wage to encourage businesses to hire white workers over non-white workers who were willing to work for less, telling his fellow Congressmen he hoped a bare minimum wage law would put an end to out-of-state contractors bringing in "cheap colored labor... in competition with

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white labor." An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934, Allgood served as a member of the Farm Security Administration from September 4, 1935, until he retired on December 1, 1943. He made an unsuccessful campaign for State treasurer in 1954 and again retired.

Death

Allgood died in

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, March 4, 1977 (age 99 years, 10 days). He is

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at Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, Alabama.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allgood, Miles Clayton 1878 births 1977 deaths University of North Alabama alumni Alabama Commissioners of Agriculture and Industries People from Blount County, Alabama State Auditors of Alabama Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama