Steve Flowers: Lister Hill, one of Alabama’s greatest U.S. Senators

We had a very distinguished congressional delegation from Alabama during the 30-year span of 1934-1964.  The congressmen from the Heart of Dixie appeared to be born to serve in Congress.  Their pedigrees were all similar. They had pretty much been born and raised in the town that they would eventually represent in Congress. Almost all had gone to the University of Alabama for their education and most had graduated from Alabama’s Law School. While at the Capstone, most had been members of Greek fraternities.   In addition to their Greek fraternal affiliation, they were politically active at th