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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786628103321

Titolo

Alabama governors : a political history of the state / / edited by Samuel L. Webb and Margaret E. Armbrester ; foreword by Albert P. Brewer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8775-7

Edizione

[2nd edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

976.10092/2

Soggetti

Governors - Alabama - History

Governors - Alabama

Alabama Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Territorial period and early statehood, 1798-1847 -- Territorial governors of the Alabama area, 1798-1819 / Kit Carson Carter III -- William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb / Daniel S. Dupre -- Israel Pickens / Daniel S. Dupre -- John Murphy / Hugh C. Bailey -- Gabriel Moore / Harriet E. A. Doss -- Samuel B. Moore / Mary Jane McDaniel -- John Gayle / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Clement Comer Clay / J. Mills Thornton III -- Hugh McVay / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Arthur P. Bagby / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Benjamin Fitzpatrick / J. Mills Thornton III -- Joshua L. Martin / Hugh C. Bailey -- Part II. Crises, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1847-1874 -- Reuben Chapman / John R. Mayfield -- Henry W. Collier / Leah Rawls Atkins -- John A. Winston / William L. Barney -- Andrew B. Moore / Leah Rawls Atkins -- John Gill Shorter / Henry M. McKiven -- Thomas H. Watts / Henry M. McKiven -- Lewis E. Parsons / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Robert M. Patton / William Warren Rogers Jr -- Wager Swayne / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- William Hugh Smith / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Robert B. Lindsay / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- David P. Lewis / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins -- Part III. The Bourbon Era, 1874-1900 -- George S. Houston / William Warren Rogers -- Rufus W. Cobb / Robert David Ward -- Edward A. O'Neal / Mary Jane McDaniel -- Thomas Seay / Robert David Ward -- Thomas G. Jones / Paul McWhorter Pruitt Jr -- William C. Oates / Paul McWhorter



Pruitt Jr -- Joseph F. Johnston / Michael Perman Jr -- Part. IV. The Progressive Era through World War II, 1900-1947 -- William J. Samford / Marlene Hunt Rikard -- William D. Jelks / David E. Alsobrook -- Russell M. Cunningham / Marlene Hunt Rikard -- Braxton Bragg Comer / David Alan Harris -- Emmet O'Neal / R. B. Rosenburg -- Charles Henderson / Lee N. Allen -- Thomas E. Kilby / Michael A. Breedlove -- William W. Brandon / Lee N. Allen -- Bibb Graves / Wayne Flynt -- Benjamin M. Miller / Glenn A. Feldman -- Frank M. Dixon / Glenn A. Feldman -- Chauncey M. Sparks / Harvey H. Jackson III -- Part V. Post-World War II to 1999 -- James E. Folsom / Carl Grafton and Anne Permaloff -- Gordon Persons / S. Jonathan Bass -- John Patterson / Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton -- George C. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew -- Lurleen B. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew -- Albert P. Brewer / Gordon E. Harvey -- Jere Beasley Sr. / Margaret E. Armbrester and Samuel L. Webb -- Forrest "Fob" James Jr. / William H. Stewart -- Guy Hunt / William H. Stewart -- James E. Folsom Jr. / William H. Stewart -- Part VI. The twenty-first century -- Don Siegelman / Samuel L. Webb and Margaret E. Armbrester -- Robert "Bob" Renfroe riley / S. Jonathan Bass -- Robert Julian Bentley / Margaret E. Armbrester.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama's years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840's through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallace's period of