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1 online resource |
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Part I. Territorial period and early statehood, 1798-1847 -- Territorial governors of the Alabama area, 1798-1819 / Kit Carson Carter III -- William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb / Daniel S. Dupre -- Israel Pickens / Daniel S. Dupre -- John Murphy / Hugh C. Bailey -- Gabriel Moore / Harriet E.A. Doss -- Samuel B. Moore / Mary Jane McDaniel -- John Gayle / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Clement Comer Clay / J. Mills Thornton III -- Hugh McVay / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Arthur P. Bagby / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Benjamin Fitzpatrick / J. Mills Thornton III -- Joshua L. Martin / Hugh C. Bailey -- Part II. Crises, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1847-1874 -- Reuben Chapman / John R. Mayfield -- Henry W. Collier / Leah Rawls Atkins -- John A. Winston / William L. Barney -- Andrew B. Moore / Leah Rawls Atkins -- John Gill Shorter / Henry M. McKiven -- Thomas H. Watts / Henry M. McKiven -- Lewis E. Parsons / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Robert M. Patton / William Warren Rogers Jr -- Wager Swayne / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- William Hugh Smith / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Robert B. Lindsay / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- David P. Lewis / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Part III. The Bourbon Era, 1874-1900 -- George S. Houston / William Warren Rogers -- Rufus W. Cobb / Robert David Ward -- Edward A. O'Neal / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Thomas Seay / Robert David Ward -- Thomas G. Jones / Paul McWhorter Pruitt Jr -- William C. Oates / Paul McWhorter Pruitt Jr -- Joseph F. Johnston / Michael Perman Jr -- Part. IV. The Progressive Era through World War II, 1900-1947 -- William J. Samford / Marlene Hunt Rikard -- William D. Jelks / David E. Alsobrook -- Russell M. Cunningham / Marlene Hunt Rikard -- Braxton Bragg Comer / David Alan Harris -- Emmet O'Neal / R.B. Rosenburg -- Charles Henderson / Lee N. Allen -- Thomas E. Kilby / Michael A. Breedlove -- William W. Brandon / Lee N. Allen -- Bibb Graves / Wayne Flynt -- Benjamin M. Miller / Glenn A. Feldman -- Frank M. Dixon / Glenn A. Feldman -- Chauncey M. Sparks / Harvey H. Jackson III -- Part V. Post-World War II to 1999 -- James E. Folsom / Carl Grafton and Anne Permaloff -- Gordon Persons / S. Jonathan Bass -- John Patterson / Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton -- George C. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew -- Lurleen B. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew -- Albert P. Brewer / Gordon E. Harvey -- Jere Beasley Sr. / Margaret E. Armbrester and Samuel L. Webb -- Forrest "Fob" James Jr. / William H. Stewart -- Guy Hunt / William H. Stewart -- James E. Folsom Jr. / William H. Stewart -- Part VI. The twenty-first century -- Don Siegelman / Samuel L. Webb and Margaret E. Armbrester -- Robert "Bob" Renfroe riley / S. Jonathan Bass -- Robert Julian Bentley / Margaret E. Armbrester |
| Summary |
This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama's years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840s through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallace's period of inf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Governors -- Alabama -- Biography
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Governors -- Alabama -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Governors
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Alabama -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003096
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| Subject |
Alabama
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Armbrester, Margaret E. (Margaret England), 1943-
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Webb, Samuel L., 1946-
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| LC no. |
2014009583 |
| ISBN |
9780817387754 |
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0817387757 |
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