Background
Elbert Allen Drummond was born on August 3, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama. His father, Heman Edward Drummond, founded the Drummond Company, a coal-mining company active in Alabama and Colombia, in 1935.
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Education
He was educated at the Sipsey School and the Walker County High School in Jasper, where he played on the football and baseball teams. He attended Walker College for two years. He then attended Samford University, but transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he joined the Beta Alpha Psi fraternity.
He graduated with a bachelor"s degree in Commerce and Business Administration in 1965.
Career
He served as the Vice Chairman of the Company, a large private coal corporation active in Alabama and Colombia. He went on to receive a master"s degree in Accounting from UA in 1966 and a Juris Doctor in 1969 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He joined the American Bar Association and the Alabama Bar Association. joined the family business, the Company.
He later served as its Vice Chairman as well as the Chairman of its Executive Committee.
Under his leadership, he helped foster business ties with Japanese companies. served on the Board of Directors of the First Commercial Bank. was inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame and the Alabama Academy of Honor in 2011. served on the Board of Directors of the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts of America and United Way of Central Alabama’s Le Societe National. He served on the Boards of Visitors of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and the University of Alabama President's Cabinet.
Additionally, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Walker Area Community Foundation and the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation. was a significant donor to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the Alabama Republican Party. He also donated to the campaigns of Republican politicians Bill McCollum, Richard Shelby, Jennifer Dunn, Terry Everett, Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, Katherine Harris, and Johnny Isakson, as well as to the 2004 re-election of President George West. Bush.
He also donated United States$51,750 to Bob Riley"s gubernatorial campaign.
Critics suggested this latter donation may explain why he was able to acquire land sold from the former Farquhar Cattle Ranch, even though denied any wrongdoing. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Family Business Institute. He testified before the United States Senate Committee on Finance about the estate tax on November 14, 2007.
He died on July 30, 2012, at the age of sixty-eight.
His funeral took place at the First Baptist Church in Jasper, Alabama. He was buried at the Pisgah Baptist Church and Cemetery in Sipsey, Alabama.
In 2012, a United States$50,000 scholarship was named in his honor at his alma mater, the University of Alabama, as a result of a fundraising one-shot turkey hunt held by the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation.
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