Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was an American publisher,politician,and Union Army officer. Pinchback was the first African American governor of a U.S. state and the second lieutenant governor. A Republican,Pinchback served as acting governor of Louisiana for 35 days from December 9,1872 to January 13,1873,during which ten acts of Legislature became law. He was one of the most prominent African-American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era.
William James Samford was an American attorney and politician who served as the 31st Governor of Alabama and in the United States House of Representatives.
Tilghman Mayfield Tucker was Governor of Mississippi from 1842 to 1844. He was a Democrat.
The Lee family of the United States is a historically significant Virginia and Maryland political family,whose many prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics and the military. The family became prominent in colonial British America when Richard Lee I immigrated to Colonial Virginia in 1639 and made his fortune in tobacco.
John Henry Morehead was an American politician who served as the 17th governor of Nebraska from 1913 to 1917.
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 president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate is the highest-ranking officer of one house of the North Carolina General Assembly. The president of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina,but the president pro tempore actually holds most of the power and presides in the absence of the Lt. Governor. The president pro tempore,a senior member of the party with a majority of seats,appoints senators to committees and also appoints certain members of state boards and commissions. From 1777 to 1868,North Carolina had no Lieutenant Governor,and the highest-ranking officer of the Senate was known as the "Speaker". The Speaker of the Senate was next in line if the office of Governor became vacant. This occurred on two occasions.
George Henry Cobb was an American politician from New York. He was the president pro tempore of the New York State Senate and the acting lieutenant governor of New York in 1910.
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.
Henry Lowndes Muldrow was an American politician who served as the First Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the first Cleveland administration. Prior to this he served as U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 1st congressional district,a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and as an officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded a cavalry regiment in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He was "Grand Cyclops" of the Oktibbeha County Ku Klux Klan den.
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.
Philip Henri Gilbert was a lawyer and Democratic politician from Napoleonville in Assumption Parish in South Louisiana.
The 1968 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 5,1968. In Alabama,voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate,as in the other 49 states.
African Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the era of slavery through the Civil War,emancipation,the Reconstruction era,resurgence of white supremacy with the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow Laws,the Civil Right movement,into recent decades. According to the 2020 Census,approximately 25.8% of Alabama's population is African American.
John Prentiss Carter was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908.
James Thomas Harrison was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1900 to 1904.
James Henry Jones was an American politician and lawyer. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1896 to 1900. He also was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
