Biography:

Lawyer, legislator. Born– December 12, 1874, in Center Star, Ala. Parents– John Henry and Mary Sue (Ingram) Wallace. Married– Ina Eleanor Winslette, June 1, 1911. Children– Two. Education– State Normal School, Florence, graduated in 1890 ; studied law in Florence and Huntsville. Admitted to Alabama Bar, May 10, 1896; practiced in Huntsville; member Alabama House of Representatives, 1898-1899, 1900-1901. Active in adoption of 1890 Alabama State Constitution.  State Game and Fish Commissioner, 1907-1920. Wrote for magazines and journals. Died January 17, 1922.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Alabama Pioneers database.

Publication(s):

The Senator from Alabama; a Romance Treating of the Disenfranchisement of the Negro and Including a Scathing Arraignment of the White House Social-equality Policy. Washington, D.C.; Neale Pub., 1894.