Alvin Holmes | |
State House: | Alabama |
District: | 78th |
Term Start: | 1974 |
Term End: | 2018 |
Birth Date: | 26 October 1939 |
Birth Place: | Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
Death Place: | Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
Profession: | real estate broker, professor |
Alma Mater: | Alabama State University Faulkner University |
Party: | Democratic |
Alvin Adolf Holmes (October 26, 1939 – November 21, 2020) was an American politician who served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 78th District from 1974 to 2018. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was African American.
Alvin Holmes was an Alabama Delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention and again to the 1996 Democratic National Convention.[1]
He campaigned to remove the Confederate flag from Alabama's capitol.
Holmes died on November 21, 2020, at the age of 81.[2]