Linwood holton biography of barack obama
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Early Years
Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was born on September 21, 1923, in the small town of Big Stone Gap, in the far southwestern corner of Virginia. Holton’s father was the executive of a small coal-hauling railroad.
After graduating from Washington and Lee University in Lexington in 1944, Holton entered an officer candidate program of the U.S. Navy and served in the submarine service in the final months of World War II (1939–1945).
Linwood holton biography of barack obama
After the war, he attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning his degree in 1949.
With an eye toward politics, Holton opened a law practice in Roanoke, an industrial city west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, then the state’s third largest urban center.
He soon was an attorney in good standing and an emerging leader on the city’s Republican Committee. On January 10, 1953, he married Virginia “Jinks” Rogers, the daughter of a leading Democratic figure in Roanoke.
The couple had four children: Anne, Tayloe