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The Alabama Supreme Court confirmed Maddox’s death in a statement on Friday.
“He was a great man and will be sorely missed,” Scott Hoyem, a spokesman for the Alabama Supreme Court, wrote in a statement on Friday. A cause of death and list of survivors was not immediately available Friday afternoon.
Maddox earned a degree in journalism from the University of Alabama in 1952 and received his law degree from Alabama in 1957. In-between, Maddox served two years in the Air Force, and served in the Air Force Reserve for decades afterward. He retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserve in 1982.