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Gary Aldridge

American state legislator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ128013959 ↗
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Gary Aldridge was a lawyer and state legislator in Alabama. He worked in Birmingham.

He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1978. He was married to Marsha White Aldridge. He served as a municipal judge in Hartselle, Alabama. He also worked in Decatur, Alabama. He co-sponsored the Martin-Aldridge Act, a reform of Alabama's child abuse and neglect laws.

He died in 1998 in a rafting accident in Alaska aged 47. The accident occurred on American Creek in Katmai National Park. Sen.

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“Gary Aldridge” enters the record as american state legislator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gary, Aldridge and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gary Aldridge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.