Forrest Hood "Fob" James Jr. is an American politician,civil engineer,entrepreneur,and former football player. He served as the 48th governor of Alabama,first as a Democrat from 1979–1983,and then as a Republican from 1995 to 1999.
John Tyler Morgan was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. Senator (1877–1907) from the state of Alabama. A prominent slaveholder before the Civil War,he became the second Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. Morgan and fellow Klan member Edmund W. Pettus became the ringleaders of white supremacy in Alabama and did more than anyone else in the state to overthrow Reconstruction efforts in the wake of the Civil War. When President Ulysses S. Grant dispatched U.S. Attorney General Amos Akerman to prosecute the Klan under the Enforcement Acts,Morgan was arrested and jailed.
WCOV-TV is a television station in Montgomery,Alabama,United States,affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting alongside Troy-licensed Cozi TV affiliate WIYC and low-power local weather station WALE-LD. The three stations share studios on WCOV Avenue in the Normandale section of Montgomery;WCOV-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Grady along the Montgomery–Crenshaw county line.
The 2002 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 5. With 669,105 votes or 48.95%,incumbent Democrat Don Siegelman lost re-election to Republican Bob Riley,a margin of 3,120 votes or 0.22%. The close and controversial election was marked by high turnout. This was the third consecutive Alabama gubernatorial election where the incumbent was defeated. Riley was sworn in on January 20,2003,marking what is to date the last time the Alabama Governor's office changed partisan control.
The lieutenant governor of Alabama is the president of the Alabama Senate,elected to serve a four-year term. The office was created in 1868,abolished in 1875,and recreated in 1901. According to the current constitution,should the governor be out of the state for more than 20 days,the lieutenant governor becomes acting governor,and if the governor dies,resigns or is removed from office,the lieutenant governor ascends to the governorship. Earlier constitutions said the powers of the governor devolved upon the successor,rather than them necessarily becoming governor,but the official listing includes these as full governors. The governor and lieutenant governor are not elected on the same ticket.
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.
Vivian Davis Figures is an American politician who is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 33rd District in Mobile County since she was elected on January 28,1997,to serve the remaining term of her late husband,Senator Michael Figures,who was the President pro tempore of the Alabama Senate. She was re-elected without opposition in 1998 and 2002.
The Libertarian Party of Alabama (LPA) is the Alabama affiliate of the national Libertarian Party (LP). It is headquartered in Montgomery,Alabama. Due to the high signature requirement to get onto the ballot and the requirement that a party run a statewide candidate that receives at least 20% in order to maintain ballot access the Libertarian Party of Alabama has rarely fielded candidates.
African Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the era of slavery through the Civil War,emancipation,the Reconstruction era,resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws,the Civil Right movement,into recent decades. According to the 2020 Census,approximately 25.8% of Alabama's population is African American.
John Harold Merrill is an American politician who served as the 53rd secretary of state of Alabama from 2015 to 2023. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2014. Merrill is a member of the Republican Party.
The 1966 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 8,1966,and resulted in the election of Lurleen Wallace as the governor over U.S. Representative James D. Martin. Incumbent Democrat George Wallace was term limited and could not seek a second consecutive term;he later successfully ran again in 1970 and 1974 before being term-limited again,and then successfully ran again in 1982.
The 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama took place on December 12,2017,in order for the winner to serve the remainder of the U.S. Senate term ending on January 3,2021. A vacancy arose from Senator Jeff Sessions's February 8,2017,resignation from the Senate. Sessions resigned his post to serve as the 84th U.S. attorney general. On February 9,2017,Governor Robert J. Bentley appointed Luther Strange,the attorney general of Alabama,to fill the vacancy until a special election could take place. The special election was scheduled for December 12,2017.
The 1978 United States Senate special election in Alabama was held on November 7,1978. It was a special election to fill the seat which had been held by Senator Jim Allen,who died on June 1. His widow Maryon was appointed on June 8 by governor George Wallace to fill the vacancy until a special election could be held.
Michael Anthony Figures was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Alabama Senate from the 33rd district from 1978 until his death in 1996. He served as the body's president pro tempore after he was elected to the position in 1995. His wife Vivian Davis Figures succeeded him in office after his death. Figures argued a wrongful death civil suit against the Ku Klux Klan for the lynching of Michael Donald,winning a judgment that bankrupted the United Klans of America.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama were held on November 3,2020,to elect the seven U.S. representatives from the state of Alabama,one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
Algernon Johnson Cooper,Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who served as the mayor of Prichard,Alabama. Cooper was one of the first black elected officials in Prichard,and one of the first black mayors in the modern era.
Thomas J. Reed Sr. was a civil rights leader,restaurant owner,and politician who served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1970 to 1988,and 1995 to 1997,as a member of the Democratic Party. He served as president of the Alabama NAACP from 1969 to 1979,and 1985 to 1989.
Loraine Bedsole Bush Tunstall was an American social reformer who served as the first director of Alabama's department focused on child welfare,in which capacity she attained national distinction. She was the first woman to ever head a state department in Alabama. She also served as Alabama child labor inspector (1915–17) and was on the staff of the United States Department of Labor (1918–19).
Thomas Henry Figures was an American attorney and judge. He was the first African American assistant district attorney and assistant United States Attorney from Mobile,Alabama. Figures earned convictions on two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the lynching of Michael Donald and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against the judicial nomination of Jeff Sessions.
