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Madison is a city located primarily in Madison County,near the northern border of the U.S. state of Alabama. Madison extends west into neighboring Limestone County. The city is included in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area,the second-largest in the state,and is also included in the merged Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The population was 56,933 at the 2020 census. Madison is bordered by Huntsville on nearly all sides with some small unincorporated lands within Madison in Madison and Limestone counties.
The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869,for the attacks upon Union merchant ships by Confederate Navy commerce raiders built in British shipyards during the American Civil War. The claims focused chiefly on the most famous of these raiders,the CSS Alabama,which took more than sixty prizes before she was sunk off the French coast in 1864.
Samford University is a private Baptist university in Homewood,Alabama. It was founded in 1841 as Howard College by Baptists. In the fall of 2023,the university enrolled 5,791 students from 49 states,1 U.S. territory,and 16 other countries.
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LeRoy Pope Walker was the first Confederate States Secretary of War.
WJAB is a NPR-affiliated college radio station in Huntsville,Alabama. It primarily features jazz and blues music programming aimed toward African-American residents of the northern counties of Alabama and several counties in southern middle Tennessee. WJAB's signal travels in about a 120-mile radius.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
William James Purman was a U.S. Representative from Florida. A Republican,he also served in the Florida Senate and in the Florida House of Representatives.
Mary Ann Sampson is an American artist based in Ragland,Alabama. Sampson is a book artist,specializing in unique miniatures and broadsides. She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal events and experiences that have been derived from living in her rural environment of Alabama.
State Route 144 (SR 144) is a 26.663-mile-long (42.910 km) east–west state highway in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It travels from U.S. Route 231 (US 231) in St. Clair County near Pell City to US 431 at Alexandria in Calhoun County. The highway is two lanes for its entire length. The highway also crosses the Coosa River using the bridge across the Neely Henry Dam.
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.
Stephen Ralph Windom is an American attorney and politician who served as member of the Alabama State Senate from 1989 to 1998 and as the 27th lieutenant governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003.
Maria Ragland Davis was an American biologist and educator. She was associate professor of Biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she studied molecular biology and plant genetics.
The Patrick Henry Brittan House,also known as the Brittan-Dennis House,is a historic Italianate style house in Montgomery,Alabama. The one-story brick house was completed in 1858 by Patrick Henry Brittan,10th Secretary of State of Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 13,1979. The building is located at 507 Columbus Street.
General Patrick Henry Brittan was born in Thornton Gap,Virginia on September 21,1815.
Joseph Alexander Ragland is an American-Liberian professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv BC of the Israeli Super League. He played college basketball for North Platte Community College and Wichita State.
Reggie Keith Ragland Jr. is an American football linebacker who is a free agent. He played college football at Alabama,winning two national championships. He was then drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2016 NFL draft. In 2016,he missed his rookie season after being placed on injured reserve with a torn ACL. During the 2017 season,he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs for a fourth round pick in the 2019 draft. On January 6,2018,Ragland started his first career playoff game,registering nine tackles during the team's 22–21 loss to the Tennessee Titans. Two years later he won his first Super Bowl,recording two tackles when the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers.
The 2015 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It marked the Crimson Tide's 121st overall season,82nd as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 24th within the SEC Western Division. The team played its home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa,Alabama. They were led by ninth-year head coach Nick Saban. They finished the season with a record of 14 wins and 1 loss,as SEC champions and as consensus national champions after they defeated Clemson in the College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship Game. Alabama also secured its 10th Associated Press (AP) national title. Running back Derrick Henry became Alabama's second Heisman Trophy recipient. He led the nation in both rushing yards (2,219) and rushing touchdowns (28).
Doria Loyce Ragland is the American mother of Meghan,Duchess of Sussex and the ex-wife of American retired television lighting director and director of photography Thomas Markle. Ragland holds a degree in social work and is a former makeup artist and yoga instructor.
Thomas J. Clarke was a farmer,state legislator and constable in Alabama.
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