found: U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on the Judiciary. Providing for the release of ... 1987:caption title (Alcee L. Hastings) p. 1 (Eleventh Circuit ... U.S. district judge)
found: Biographical directory of the United States Congress online, viewed August 15, 2012(Hastings, Alcee Lamar, a Representative from Florida; born in Altamonte Springs, Seminole County, Fla., September 5, 1936; lawyer; appointed United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1979-1989; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-present))
found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Hastings, Alcee; Alcee Lamar Hastings; U.S. Representative, lawyer, legislator; born 5 September 1936 in Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States; graduated from Fisk University (1958); studied at Howard University School of Law (1958-1960); earned JD from Florida A&M University (1963); was appointed circuit court judge of Broward County, Florida (1977-1979) and U.S. district judge for Southern District of Florida (1979-1988); was impeached and removed from the bench from US Congress; won a seat in the House of Representatives (1993) and was reelected seven times; served on Democratic Steering Committee, Congressional Black Caucus, and Human Rights Caucus)
found: Washington post WWW site, viewed April 6, 2021(in obituary dated April 6, 2021: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, a charismatic civil rights lawyer who became Florida's first Black federal judge, was impeached on corruption charges and made a remarkable comeback as a liberal Democratic member of the U.S. House and the dean of his state's congressional delegation, died April 6. He was 84. By one account, he was born Alcea Lamar Merritt in Altamonte Springs, a farming town north of Orlando, on Sept. 5, 1936. According to the Miami Herald, he changed the spelling of his first name early on and adopted his stepfather's last name, Hastings. Other sources give his birth name as Alcee Lamar Hastings)
