Although Terry Everett had been out of the public eye since his retirement from Congress in 2008, the onetime newspaper tycoon and leader in the construction and banking businesses was well remembered following his death on March 12.

Everett, who was 87, was, in effect, Donald Trump well before Trump himself got into politics.

“Like President Trump, Terry was an entrepreneur who never held political office before he decided to run for Congress in 1992—something almost unheard of in Alabama politics,” said former State Rep. Perry Hooper, Jr., a leader of the Trump campaign in the Yellowhammer State since 2016.

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