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- ↑ Alabama Legislature (1963). Journal of the Alabama Senate, 1963, volume 3 (regular session). Alabama Legislature. p. 2109.
- ↑ "Ernest C. Hornsby". Alabama . Retrieved 2010-08-18.
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