[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               TRIBUTE TO DR. ARCHIE HILL CARMICHAEL III

  Mr. HEFLIN. Mr. President, I spoke earlier this month about the 
untimely death of Dr. Archie H. Carmichael III, a distinguished 
physician from the shoals area of Alabama, which includes Muscle 
Shoals, Sheffield, Florence, and my hometown of Tuscumbia.
  Dr. Carmichael truly epitomized the high ideals which constitute the 
medical profession. He was a dear friend to many, including his 
patients, who he served so diligently for over 30 years. He had a 
remarkable bedside manner and his patients highly respected him. In 
short, he was the type of rare individual who can never really be 
replaced. He had patients from all over northwest Alabama, northeast 
Mississippi, and southern Tennessee and will be genuinely missed.
  Upon learning of his death, Tuscumbia mayor Ray Cahoon remarked that 
``Archie Hill had done a really great job of serving his community as a 
physician. He was really well-loved. He was already missed by many 
because he had to cease his practice due to his illness.''
  One of his medical colleagues said that he had always treasured his 
professional and personal association with Dr. Carmichael, and noted 
that he had loved his work and his patients and had always put them 
before his personal concerns. He was known as a very pleasant person to 
work with and a dedicated professional.
  Archie Hill Carmichael was an all-state football player from Deshler 
High School who received a football scholarship to attend the Georgia 
Institute of Technology. Later, however, the young athlete gave up his 
football career due to his mother's urging, and finally his own 
decision, to pursue a career in the field of medicine. He subsequently 
took his bachelor of science and medical degrees from Vanderbilt 
University, to which he had transferred from Georgia Tech, and 
completed his residency in internal medicine at Bowman-Gray Medical 
School at Wake Forest University. He served in the U.S. Naval Medical 
Corps for several years. He practiced medicine in Sheffield, AL for 31 
years and served as an adjunct professor of medicine at the University 
of Alabama Medical School for a while.
  Dr. Carmichael married Ann Cothran, and they had two children, 
Lawrence Carmichael, M.D., and Beth Carmichael Riley. Ann Cothran 
Carmichael predeceased her husband by several years, and he then 
married Jean Pigford Cleveland. They had a son, Archie Hill Carmichael 
IV. He was a great family man, a dedicated father, and devoted husband
  From a very distinguished family including his grandfather, former 
Member of Congress Archie H. Carmichael--Archie Hill III, added much to 
his family's legacy. His Congressman grandfather was succeeded in the 
House by my own predecessor in the Senate, the legendary John J. 
Sparkman.
  Dr. Carmichael had retired due to a serious illness, and passed away 
on January 4, 1995. At the time of his retirement, he practiced as a 
specialist in internal medicine with his longtime partner, Dr. R. 
Winston Williams. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in 
Tuscumbia; the Colbert County Medical Society; the Medical Society of 
the State of Alabama, and the American College of Physicians.
  I extend my sincerest condolences to Jean Carmichael and his entire 
family as they lament this tremendous loss.


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