Military Service and Medical Practice
Alford served as a captain during World War II in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1940-1946. He was on active duty as a surgeon in the European Theater of operations. Afterwards, from 1947 to 1948, he was an assistant professor at Methodist-affiliated Emory University College of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
On his return to Arkansas, he opened a private practice of ophthalmology and was also the chief assistant in ophthalmological surgery at the Veterans Hospital in Little Rock. He was active in all levels of the Arkansas and American Medical Association as well as the American Board of Ophthalmology, College of Surgeons, International Surgeons, and Cataract Refractive Surgeons. He served on the teaching faculty at the University of Arkansas Medical School at Little Rock and from 1948-1958.
From 1955-1958, he served on the elected Little Rock School Board during the desegregation crisis as a staunch racial segregationist. He was also an appointed trustee of what became the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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