[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF PRESIDING ELDER ALONZO MIDDLETON

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a dear 
friend and mentor who was a man of great faith. Elder Alonzo Middleton 
passed away on March 1, 2022, at the age of 91.
  Elder Middleton used his longevity in great service to the African 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a proud lifetime member of my home 
congregation, Morris Brown AME Church, in Charleston, South Carolina, 
and was a graduate of Allen University, where he later served on the 
board of trustees.
  Elder Middleton was a pastor and presiding elder in the Seventh 
Episcopal District, which encompasses the entire State of South 
Carolina. He served as a delegate to multiple quadrennials of the AME 
Church's general conference and on its general board.
  He retired from active service as presiding elder of the Mount 
Pleasant District, one of the largest in the AME Church.
  One of his lasting accomplishments was engineering the merger of 
three small Charleston congregations to create a single church renamed 
the Greater Middleton Chapel AME Church.
  Elder Middleton was a mentor for many generations of AME clergy and 
laymen. He will be sorely missed.

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