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This is a list of mayors who served the city of Huntsville, Alabama. [1]
From 1812 to 1828, a board of trustees governed Huntsville, headed by a popularly elected president:
From 1828 to 1844, popularly elected aldermen selected the President of Huntsville:
From 1844 to 1916, Presidents of Huntsville were again elected by the people, with a President/Council system from 1844 to 1911 and a City Commission form of government from 1911 to 1916:
In 1916, returned to the Mayor/Council form of government:
Gabriel Moore was a Democratic-Republican, later Jacksonian and National Republican politician and fifth governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1829–1831).
Maple Hill Cemetery is the oldest and largest cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Founded on two acres in about the year 1822, it now encompasses nearly 100 acres and contains over 80,000 burials. It was added to the Alabama Historical Commission's Historic Cemetery Register in 2008, and to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Its occupants include five governors of Alabama, five United States senators, and numerous other figures of local, state, and national note. It is located east of the Twickenham Historic District.
The New York circuit courts were circuit courts created by the New York State Constitution of 1821, and abolished by the Constitution of 1846.
William Thomas Hutchens was an American politician who was born and raised in New York City and was raised by a single father who ran a pub/restaurant. They sold the bar and later moved to Alabama in 1879 so they could escape poverty in hopes of buying a farm. After his father's death in 1881, he founded a company called Hutchens in 1886 and also became the first New Yorker to be involved in Alabama politics. Later Hutchens served as president of Huntsville, Alabama, from 1893 to 1897 and later as mayor from 1920 to 1922. Hutchens also served as the city's Postmaster from 1898 through 1914.
The Appleton family is an American political, religious and mercantile family.
William Spence (1793–1849) was an early 19th century British sculptor.