Jesse F. Stallings, member of Congress and a distinguished lawyer of
Greenville, Butler County, Ala., was born in that county April 4,
1856, and was educated at the university of Alabama, where he
graduated in 1877.  After his graduation he read law with J. C.
Richardson, of Greenville, until he was admitted to the bar in 1879,
and located for the practice of his profession at his present home in
Greenville.  From the start in public life, Mr. Stallings has been
prominently identified with the politics of his county and state,
having been a delegate from Butler county to all the state
conventions, since 1880, and in 1886 he was elected solicitor for the
second judicial district for a term of six years.  In 1888 he was a
delegate to the democratic national convention at St. Louis.
In 1892 he was elected to congress from the second district by a
majority of 7,100.

He is a man of great personal popularity and political sagacity, and
has never violated any of the numerous and important trusts reposed in
him.  He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was united in
marriage in 1888 to Belle, daughter of Capt. A. M. McAllister, of
Barbour County, Ala.  His father was Reuben Stallings, of Alabama.  He
was an extensive farmer and served all through the war under General
Lee.  He died in December, 1891.  His wife was Lucinda Ferguson, a
native of Alabama.