Elbert Allen Drummond (a.k.a. E.A. Drummond or Larry Drummond) (August 3, 1943 – July 30, 2012) was an American heir, businessman and philanthropist from Alabama. He served as the vice chairman of the Drummond Company, a large private coal corporation active in Alabama and Colombia.
Drummond joined the family business, the Drummond Company.[1] He later served as its vice chairman as well as the chairman of its executive committee.[2][5] Under his leadership, he helped foster business ties with Japanese companies.[5]
During 1979-1980, Drummond, together with his brother, Garry, and company executive Clyde Black, was indicted for bribing three Alabama legislators, by means of supplying them with prostitutes.[6][7][8][9] The trial lasted three months, but it was dismissed by Judge Frank McFadden; the record is now sealed.[6][7]
Drummond served on the board of directors of the Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts of America and United Way of Central Alabama’s Le Societe National.[3] He served on the Boards of Visitors of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and the University of Alabama President’s Cabinet.[3][4] Additionally, he served on the board of trustees of the Walker Area Community Foundation and the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation.[3]
He married Abbie Kiker, his high school sweetheart, at the age of nineteen.[2] They had two sons, Scott A. Drummond and Patrick L. Drummond, and a daughter, Terri Drummond Lyon.[1]
Death and legacy
He died on July 30, 2012, at the age of sixty-eight.[2][5] His funeral took place at the First Baptist Church in Jasper, Alabama.[5] He was buried at the Pisgah Baptist Church and Cemetery in Sipsey, Alabama.[2]
In 2012, a US$50,000 scholarship was named in his honor at his alma mater, the University of Alabama, as a result of a fundraising one-shot turkey hunt held by the Alabama Conservation and Natural Resources Foundation.[3]
