sentences:  In 1931, as a Major, he commanded the Alabama National Guard troops who guarded the African American Scottsboro Boys from the mob gathered outside the Jackson County, Alabama Court House while those defendants were on trial for allegedly raping white women Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.He served as member of the State board of education 1933-1949 and became vice chairman in January 1948.He graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1921.