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Shuford, Alonzo Craig

agriculturist, congressman, was born March 1, 1858, in Catawba county, N. C. He was *made county lecturer and later district lecturer of the alliance; was elected delegate to the labor conference in St. Louis in 1892; and also delegate for the state at large to the populist convention in Omaha in the same year. He was elected vice-president of the state alliance in 1894; and was elected from North Carolina to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a populist.

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