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unusual facts about Hugo S. Sims, Jr.



Alexander Sims

Alexander D. Sims (1803–1848), U.S. Representative from South Carolina

David Wm. Sims

Sims currently performs experimental solo electric bass as unFact.

Equal representation

Reynolds v. Sims, the United States Supreme Court case requiring equal population in US election districts

Hugo S. Sims, Jr.

He served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945, commanded Company A, Five Hundred and First Parachute Infantry, Hundred and First Airborne Division while serving in the Second World War.

John McQueen

31st Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Alexander D. Sims.

Reynolds v. Sims

Ratio variances as great as 14 to 1 from one senatorial district to another existed in the Alabama Senate (i.e., the number of eligible voters voting for one senator was in one case 14 times the number of voters in another).

Samuel W. Martien

That advantage was lost completely to rural parishes in 1972, when both legislative chambers came into full compliance with the United States Supreme Court decision Reynolds v. Sims, which requires that each state legislative district be nearly equal in population.


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