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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewer, Albert P., author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Webb, Samuel L., editor.

Armbrester, Margaret E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governors--Alabama--History.

Governors.

Governors--Alabama--Biography.

Alabama--Politics and government.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

2nd edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8775-7

OCLC:

887538305