James Baxter Hunt Jr. is an American politician and retired attorney who was the 69th and 71st governor of North Carolina. He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
Harold Guy Hunt was an American politician who served as the 49th governor of Alabama from 1987 to 1993. He was the first Republican to serve as governor of the state since Reconstruction.
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.
James Elisha Folsom Sr.,commonly known as Jim Folsom or Big Jim Folsom,was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of the U.S. state of Alabama,having served from 1947 to 1951,and again from 1955 to 1959. He was the first Governor of Alabama born in the 20th century.
The 1988 presidential campaign of Al Gore,U.S. Senator of Tennessee and former House Representative began on April 11,1987. He campaigned for President of the United States as a Democratic candidate in the 1988 presidential election,against Democratic candidates Joe Biden,Dick Gephardt,Paul Simon,Jesse Jackson,and Michael Dukakis.
Lucy Mae Bruner Baxley Smith was an American politician who served from 2003 to 2007 as the 28th lieutenant governor of Alabama and from 2008 to 2012 as president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. She was the first woman to hold the state's office of lieutenant governor. In 2006,she was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor. In 2008,Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission,and was the only Democrat to win statewide that year. Until Doug Jones's swearing in after winning a 2017 U.S. Senate special election,Baxley had been the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Alabama.
Charles Woods was an Alabama businessman and broadcaster,and aspiring politician. Woods was raised in an orphanage. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force before joining the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He was a decorated pilot with the Air Corps.
The Alabama Public Service Commission,commonly called the PSC,was established by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1915 to primarily replace the State Railroad Commission. The PSC's responsibility was expanded in 1920 to include regulating and setting rates that utility companies charge their customers for electricity. The legislature expanded the PSC's responsibilities in later years to include those companies that provide gas,water,and communications,as well as transportation common carriers such as trucking and air carriers. The PSC effectively determines the rate of profits that most of these companies are allowed to earn. However,some of its traditional responsibilities have passed to the federal government with the passage of the Federal Aviation Act of 1994 and the Federal Communications Act of 1996.
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 1994 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994,to select the governor of Alabama. The election saw Republican Fob James defeat incumbent Democrat Jim Folsom Jr. in an upset. This was the first of three consecutive Alabama gubernatorial elections where the incumbent was defeated. This was one of four gubernatorial elections where an incumbent Democrat was defeated in 1994.
The 1990 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1990,to select the governor of Alabama. The election saw incumbent Republican governor Guy Hunt defeat Democrat Paul Hubbert,executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association. This marked the first time in history that a Republican won a second gubernatorial term in Alabama.
William Ryan deGraffenried Jr. served as President Pro Tempore of the Alabama State Senate from 1987 to 1994.
The 1982 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 2,1982,to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Fob James declined to run for re-election;he later successfully ran again in 1994 as a Republican. The open seat election saw former Democratic governor George Wallace,who narrowly won the Democratic primary,defeat Republican Emory Folmar,the Mayor of Montgomery,Alabama.
The 1962 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 6,1962. Incumbent Democrat John Malcolm Patterson was term limited and could not seek a second consecutive term.
The 1980 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 4,1980,alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Donald Stewart,elected in a special election to finish the term of the seat left vacant by the death of Senator James B. Allen,decided to run for a full term,but was defeated in the primary by Jim Folsom,who lost the general election to Republican Jeremiah Denton.
Jamelle Moore Folsom was an American First Lady of the U.S. state of Alabama,serving from 1948 to 1951 and again from 1955 to 1959. The wife and widow of Governor of Alabama James E. "Big Jim" Folsom and mother of former Governor Jim Folsom,Jr.,Jamelle Folsom is the only Alabama woman in history to have both married and given birth to a state governor.
The 1968 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 5,1968. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator J. Lister Hill retired. He was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor of Alabama James Allen,who won a hotly contested primary over Armistead I. Selden Jr. In the general election,Allen easily defeated Republican Probate Judge Perry O. Hooper Sr. and National Democratic nominee Robert Schwenn.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Alabama on November 4,2014. All of Alabama's executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat,and all of Alabama's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.
The 1978 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 7,1978,to elect the governor of Alabama. Fob James,a businessman who had switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and campaigned as a "born-again Democrat",won the Democratic primary in an upset over Attorney General Bill Baxley. He went on to defeat Guy Hunt in a landslide in the general election. Incumbent Democrat George Wallace was term limited and could not seek a third consecutive term;he later successfully ran again in 1982.
The 1954 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 2,1954,to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Democrat Gordon Persons was term-limited,and could not seek a second consecutive term.
