George Corley Wallace Jr. was the 45th governor of Alabama,serving from 1963 to 1967,again from 1971 to 1979,and finally from 1983 to 1987. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. During Wallace's tenure as governor of Alabama,he promoted "industrial development,low taxes,and trade schools." Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democratic Party candidate three times,and once as an American Independent Party candidate,carrying five states in the 1968 election. Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement,declaring in his very controversial 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever".
James Browning Allen was an American Democratic politician serving as U.S. senator representing Alabama. Allen previously served as the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama and also served in the Alabama Senate and the Alabama House of Representatives.
John Gayle was the 7th Governor of Alabama,a United States representative from Alabama,a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and 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.
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States.
John McKee Spratt Jr. is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district from 1983 to 2011. The 5th Congressional District covers all or part of 14 counties in north-central South Carolina. The largest cities are Rock Hill and Sumter. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
James Hayes Shofner Cooper is an American lawyer,businessman,professor,and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2023. He is a Southern Democrat and was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition,and represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995. His district included all of Nashville. He chaired the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the House Armed Services Committee,and sat on the Committee on Oversight and Reform,United States House Committee on the Budget,and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,more committees than any other member of Congress. At the end of his tenure,he was also the dean of Tennessee's congressional delegation. Cooper is the third-longest serving member of Congress ever from Tennessee,after Jimmy Quillen and B. Carroll Reece.
The 37th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from March 4,1861,to March 4,1863,during the first two years of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1850 United States census.
Ralph Warren Norman Jr. is an American real estate developer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2017. His district includes most of the South Carolina side of the Charlotte metropolitan area,along with outer portions of the Upstate and Midlands. A member of the Republican Party,Norman served as the South Carolina state representative for the 48th district from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2017.
George Washington Murray,born in the United States in South Carolina,gained education and worked as a teacher,farmer and politician. After serving as chairman of the Sumter County Republican Party,he was elected in the 1890s as a United States congressman from South Carolina. He was the only black member in the 53rd and 54th Congresses. Because South Carolina passed a constitution in 1895 that effectively disenfranchised blacks and crippled the Republican Party,Murray was the last Republican elected in the state for nearly 100 years. The next Republican,elected in 1980,was the result of a realignment of voters and parties.
Bobby Neal Bright Sr. is an American retired lawyer,farmer,and former politician who served as a U.S. Representative and was previously the three-term Mayor of Montgomery,Alabama. He served from 2009 to 2011 as the Representative from Alabama's 2nd congressional district. His 2008 campaign ran on the message of "America First",and his voting record indicated that he was the most conservative member of the House Democratic Caucus in the 111th Congress. His district includes just over half of the city of Montgomery,as well as most of the Wiregrass Region in the southeastern part of the state.
The Alabama Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Alabama. It is chaired by Randy Kelley.
Richard Irvine Manning I was the 50th Governor of South Carolina from 1824 to 1826 and was later a Representative in the United States Congress.
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States,especially in the Southern United States,was based on a series of laws,new constitutions,and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting. These measures were enacted by the former Confederate states at the turn of the 20th century. Efforts were also made in Maryland,Kentucky,and Oklahoma. Their actions were designed to thwart the objective of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,ratified in 1870,which prohibited states from depriving voters of their voting rights based on race. The laws were frequently written in ways to be ostensibly non-racial on paper,but were implemented in ways that selectively suppressed black voters apart from other voters.
The 1996 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 5,1996. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howell Heflin decided to retire. Republican Jeff Sessions won the open seat,becoming the first of his party to win this seat since Reconstruction in 1868 and only the second Republican ever to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama.
The 1964 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 3,1964. Alabama voters chose ten representatives,or electors,to the Electoral College,who voted for President and Vice-president. In Alabama,voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate,as in the other states.
The 1968 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 5,1968,and was part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president. Whereas in the Deep South,Black Belt whites had deserted the national Democratic Party in 1948,in North Carolina,where they had historically been an economically liberalizing influence on the state Democratic Party,the white landowners of the Black Belt had stayed exceedingly loyal to the party until after the Voting Rights Act. This allowed North Carolina to be,along with Arkansas,the only state to vote for Democrats in all four presidential elections between 1952 and 1964. Indeed,the state had not voted Republican since anti-Catholic fervor lead it to support Herbert Hoover over Al Smith in 1928;and other than that the state had not voted Republican once in the century since the Reconstruction era election of 1872. Nonetheless,in 1964 Republican Barry Goldwater may have won a small majority of white voters,although he was beaten by virtually universal support for incumbent President Lyndon Johnson by a black vote estimated at 175 thousand.
Elections in Alabama are authorized under the Alabama State Constitution,which establishes elections for the state level officers,cabinet,and legislature,and the election of county-level officers,including members of school boards.
The 1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 5,1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College,which selected the president and vice president.
The 1940 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 5,1940,as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose 11 representatives,or electors,to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president. In Alabama,voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate,as in the other states.
The Freedom to Vote Act,introduced as H.R. 1,is a bill in the United States Congress intended to expand voting rights,change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics,ban partisan gerrymandering,and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders.
