Pete Clifford

Pete Clifford is and assistant to the president of Southeastern Bible College. He is also a minister and former Birmingham City Council member.

Clifford was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1955 and served with the 11th Airborne Division in the Korean War.

Clifford ran unsuccessfully in the 1977 City Council election. He was one of eight candidates to advance to a runoff on November 1. He finally earned a seat on the Council in a special election held in November 1978 after the death of Council President Don Hawkins and finished his term. In the 1979 Birmingham mayoral election he won a full four-year term.

Though unopposed in the Democratic primary, Clifford ran unsuccessfully against Republican Albert Smith to represent the 6th Congressional District of Alabama in 1980. He was not re-elected to the Council in 1981.

In December 1981, before leaving office, Clifford made a 5-day trip to Washington D. C. and applied for $806 in reimbursable expenses from the city. He justified the request because he attended an energy workshop as a representative of the city. Once the reimbursements were publicized, he repaid the city, but was censured by the Council for the inappropriate request.

Clifford joined the administrative staff of Southeastern Bible College in 2005.

Clifford and his wife Sophia have four children and ten grandchildren.

References

• "Clifford's Chance of Election Damaged" (January 21, 1982) Florence Times Daily
• Carlisle, Don (April 29, 2010) "The worst City Council of all time" The Birmingham Times