Charles Spittal Robb is an American former U.S. Marine Corps officer and politician who served as the 64th governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a United States senator representing Virginia from 1989 until 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Robb sought a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2000,but was defeated by Republican George Allen,another former governor.
Lurleen Burns Wallace was an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Alabama for 16 months from January 16,1967 until her death on May 7,1968. She was the first wife of Alabama governor George Wallace,whom she succeeded as governor because the Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was the 11th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama and a United States Senator from that state. He was a Democrat.
John Anthony Winston was a planter,military officer,and politician who became the 15th Governor of Alabama after serving as president of the state senate (1845–1849). Alabama's first native-born governor,Winston later fought for the Confederate States of America as colonel of the 8th Alabama Infantry early in the American Civil War,and after the conflict was not permitted to assume a seat in the United States Senate.
Clement Claiborne Clay,also known as C. C. Clay Jr.,was a United States Senator (Democrat) from the state of Alabama from 1853 to 1861,and a Confederate States senator from Alabama from 1862 to 1864. His portrait appeared on the Confederate one-dollar note.
Sir Richard William Scott,was a Canadian politician and cabinet minister.
The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state,with each district containing at least 127,140 citizens. Similar to the lower house,the Alabama House of Representatives,the senate serves both without term limits and with a four-year term.
The Alabama Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Alabama. It is chaired by Randy Kelley.
The 1st Utah Senate District is located in Salt Lake County,which includes Salt Lake City,and includes Utah House Districts 20,22,23,26,29,31 and 33.
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.
Charles Jahleal Boatner was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
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.
Kay Ellen Ivey is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama,serving since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat,Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38th Alabama state treasurer from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th lieutenant governor of Alabama from 2011 to 2017.
Frances Lillian Willard Munds was an American suffragist and leader of the suffrage movement within Arizona. After achieving her goal of statewide women's suffrage,she went on to become a member of the Arizona Senate more than five years before ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted the vote to all American women. She lived in Prescott,Arizona and represented Yavapai County in 1915. She was a Democrat.
John Sella Martin escaped slavery in Alabama and became an influential abolitionist and pastor in Boston,Massachusetts. He was an activist for equality before the American Civil War and travelled to England to lecture against slavery. When he returned,he preached in Presbyterian churches in Washington,D.C.
Mable Thomas is an American politician serving as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 56. She previously represented District 55,which includes areas immediately west and southwest of Downtown Atlanta and areas west and northwest of Midtown Atlanta.
Priscilla Dunn is an American politician who was a member of the Alabama Senate from 2009 to 2022 as a member of the Democratic Party.
Women have served in state legislatures in the United States since 1895. Their ranks have increased with the advent of nationwide women's suffrage after 1920. Although the number of women serving in state legislatures has more than quintupled since 1971,they remain underrepresented. In 2023,women held less than half of the seats in state legislatures across the majority of states. Specifically,seven states —Oklahoma (19.2%),Louisiana (19.4%),Alabama (17.4%),South Carolina (14.8%),Mississippi (14.5%),Tennessee (14.4%),and West Virginia (11.9%)—had legislatures where women occupied less than 20% of the seats.
The 2018 Alabama House of Representatives elections were held on November 6,2018,as part of the biennial United States elections. All 105 of Alabama's state representatives were up for reelection. In Alabama,members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate serve four year terms,running in years corresponding with presidential midterm elections.
Ann Smith Bedsole is an American politician,businesswoman,community activist,and philanthropist. She was the first Republican woman to serve in the Alabama House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in the Alabama Senate. In 2002,she was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor.
