ALDRICH, Truman Heminway (brother of William
Farrington Aldrich), a Representative from Alabama; born
in Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y., October 17, 1848; attended
the public schools, the military academy at West Chester,
Pa., and was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1869; engaged in engineering in
New York and New Jersey; moved to Selma, Ala., in 1871;
engaged in banking and in the mining of coal, becoming
vice president and general manager of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron & Railroad Co., in 1892; founder of the Cahaba Coal
Mining Co.; successfully contested as a Republican the election of Oscar W. Underwood to the Fifty-fourth Congress
and served from June 9, 1896, to March 3, 1897; was not
a candidate for renomination in 1896; served as postmaster
at Birmingham, Ala., by appointment of President Taft, from
September 1, 1911, to December 15, 1915; delegate to the
Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904; served
as a dollar-per-year man on the War Industries Board during the First World War; after the war was engaged as
a mining engineer and geologist; died in Birmingham, Ala.,
April 28, 1932; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
