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Online-Ressource (385 p)
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9780817318437
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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 1840s 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 influenc
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Contents; Foreword by Governor Albert P. Brewer; Acknowledgments; Second Edition Acknowledgments; Political Maps of Alabama; Introduction; 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
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Arthur P. Bagby / Mary Jane McDanielBenjamin 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
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Robert B. Lindsay / Michael W. FitzgeraldDavid 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
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Braxton Bragg Comer / David Alan HarrisEmmet 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 209; Frank M. Dixon / Glenn A. Feldman; Chauncey M. Spark / 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
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Albert P. Brewer / Gordon E. HarveyJere 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; Appendix A: Governors of Alabama; Appendix B: Provenance of Governors' Portraits; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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ISBN 9780817387754
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ISBN 9780817318437
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Print version Alabama Governors : A Political History of the State
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Englisch
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