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President Kennedy appointed Representative Alford as delegate and keynote speaker at the 51st Inter-parliamentary Conference held in 1962 in [[Brasilia]], [[Brazil]].

President Kennedy appointed Representative Alford as delegate and keynote speaker at the 51st Inter-parliamentary Conference held in 1962 in [[Brasilia]], [[Brazil]].

As a congressman, Alford appointed future [[General]] [[Wesley Clark]], a confidant of later President [[Bill Clinton|William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton]], as a cadet at the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point, [[New York]]. Clark later headed forces of the [[NATO|North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] and sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, but the nomination went instead to [[John Kerry]] of [[Massachusetts]], who served in the [[Vietnam War]] but lost to [[George W. Bush]]'s reelection campaign.

As a congressman, Alford appointed future [[General]] [[Wesley Clark]], a confidant of later President [[Bill Clinton|William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton]], as a cadet at the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point, [[New York]]. Clark later headed forces of the [[NATO|North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] and sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, but the nomination went instead to [[John Kerry]] of [[Massachusetts]], who served in the [[Vietnam War]] but lost to [[George W. Bush]]'s reelection campaign.

===Two gubernatorial races===

===Two gubernatorial races===