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- ↑ Representative Alan Baker Archived 2008-09-19 at the Wayback Machine . Alabama House of Representatives. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.
- ↑ "Alan Baker - Alabama State Representative - District 66". Bama Politics. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
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