Related Research Articles
The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869, for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War. The claims focused chiefly on the most famous of these raiders, the CSS Alabama, which took more than sixty prizes before she was sunk off the French coast in 1864.
Thomas Erby Kilby Sr. was an American politician. He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Alabama and the 36th governor of Alabama.
David P. Lewis was an American politician who served as the 23rd governor of Alabama from 1872 to 1874. He was also a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, serving from February until April 1861, when he resigned from office. He was the last Republican to serve as Governor of Alabama until H. Guy Hunt was elected in 1986.
John Gill Shorter was an American politician who served as the 17th Governor of Alabama from 1861 to 1863. Prior to assuming the governorship, Shorter was a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from February 1861 to December 1861.
Robert Jemison Jr. was an American politician, entrepreneur and slave owner who served as a Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1863 to 1865. He also served in the two houses of the Alabama Legislature from 1837 until 1863.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown, Jr. noted that in some states, such as Florida, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. The following is a partial list some of the most notable of the officeholders pre–1900.
Richard Wilde Walker was an American politician.
William Russell Smith was a prominent Alabama politician who served in both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress.
Joseph Humphrey Sloss was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1871 and 1875. He was born in Somerville, Morgan County, Alabama on October 12, 1826. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and entered practice in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to Edwardsville, Illinois in 1849, and served in 1858 and 1859 as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. Sloss returned to Alabama, and during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army. He served as mayor of Tuscumbia, Alabama, was elected in 1870 as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and was reelected in 1872, but was defeated for reelection in 1874. He was appointed in 1877 as United States marshal for the northern district of Alabama, serving until 1882; and served as clerk of the U.S. federal court at Huntsville. Sloss moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and died there on January 27, 1911. He is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama.
Alexander McKinstry was the third Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Republican, McKinstry served under Governor David P. Lewis of the same political party from 1872 to 1874. He was the last Republican to serve as Lieutenant Governor until Steve Windom was sworn-in 125 years later.
Benjamin Minge Duggar was an American plant physiologist. He was born at Gallion, Hale County, Alabama.
The Alabama Republican Party is the state affiliate of the Republican Party in Alabama. It is the dominant political party in Alabama. The state party is governed by the Alabama Republican Executive Committee. The committee usually meets twice a year. As of the February 23, 2019 meeting in Birmingham, the committee is composed of 463 members. Most of the committee's members are elected in district elections across Alabama. The district members are elected in the Republican Primary once every four years, with the most recent election for the committee having been on June 5, 2018. The new committee takes office following the general election in November 2018. In addition, all 67 county GOP chairmen have automatic seats as voting members. The state chairman can appoint 10 members. Each county committee can appoint bonus members based on a formula that theoretically could add 312 seats, although that formula currently calls for only about 50 seats.
The 36th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
John Herbert Kelly was, at the time of his promotion, the youngest brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He became one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War, at the age of 24. His death occurred during an engagement at Franklin, Tennessee on September 2, 1864 during Major General Joseph Wheeler's raid into Tennessee in August and early September 1864 in an attempt to destroy the railroad that Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman was using to supply his force from Chattanooga, Tennessee during the Atlanta Campaign.
George Washington Lane was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Seth Barton was an attorney and government official who was active in Alabama and Louisiana. He served the federal government as Solicitor of the United States Treasury and Chargé d'affaires in Chile.
Newell is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, Alabama, United States, located 11.5 miles (18.5 km) north-northeast of Wedowee.
Pleasant Ridge, also known as Ridge, is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Alabama, United States. Pleasant Ridge is located on Alabama State Route 14, 17.2 miles (27.7 km) northwest of Eutaw.
Littlepage Sims was a political leader in Alabama. He served in the Alabama Senate representing Bibb County, Alabama in 1819. He was a delegate to the 1819 Alabama Constitutio al Convention and signed the 1819 Alabama Constitution. He was part of negotiations with the Cherokee over the borders of Rockwood, Tennessee at the Rockwood Oak.
Daniel E. Watrous was a settler, lawyer, and state politician in Alabama. He served in the Alabama State Senate representing Shelby County, Alabama and Bibb County, Alabama.
References
- ↑ The South in the Building of the Nation: Biography K-Z. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 9781589809475 . Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- 1 2 3 Garrett, William. "Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama for Thirty Years", 1872.
- ↑ Brewer, Wilson. Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872, 1872
 | ||
 | This biography of a state judge in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about an Alabama politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |