Alan Drennen

Alan T. Drennen, Jr is a former insurance agent and Birmingham City Council member.

In the 1963 election, Drennen won a two-year at-large term on the first City Council, which served alongside the outgoing Birmingham City Commission while the change in government was being challenged in the courts. on the council he proposed many progressive policies such as recruiting African Americans to the Birmingham Police Department, issuing bonds to improve schools and build a new arena, and fluoridating the city's drinking water. He was also a supporter of the 1964 One Great City campaign to combine municipal governments.

Drennen was re-elected to a full four-year term in the 1965 Birmingham City Council election, but did not run for re-election in 1969.

References

• "Drennen asks police raise, veto and school bond issue" (December 30, 1964) The Birmingham News - via Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections