From Conservapedia
A list of governors from the state of Alabama.[1]
| Name | Party | Years
|
| William Wyatt Bibb
| Democrat
| 1817-1820[2]
|
| Thomas Bibb
| Democrat
| 1820-1821
|
| Israel Pickens
| Democrat
| 1821-1825
|
| John Murphy
| Democrat
| 1825-1829
|
| Gabriel Moore
| Democrat
| 1829-1831
|
| Samuel B. Moore
| Democrat
| 1831
|
| John Gayle
| Democrat/Whig
| 1831-1835
|
| Clement Comer Clay
| Democrat
| 1835-1837
|
| Hugh McVay
| Democrat
| 1837
|
| Arthur Pendleton Bagby
| Democrat
| 1837-1841
|
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick
| Democrat
| 1841-1845
|
| Josua Lanier Martin
| Democrat
| 1845-1847
|
| Reuben Chapman
| Democrat
| 1847-1849
|
| Henry Watkins Collier
| Democrat
| 1849-1853
|
| John Anthony Winston
| Democrat
| 1853-1857
|
| Andrew Barry Moore
| Democrat
| 1857-1861
|
| John Gill Shorter
| Democrat
| 1861-1863
|
| Thomas Hill Watts
| Democrat
| 1863-1865
|
| Lewis Eliphalet Parsons
| Democrat
| 1865
|
| Robert Miller Patton
| Pre-war Whig
| 1865-1867
|
| Wager Swayne
|
| 1867-1868
|
| Willian Hugh Smith
| Republican
| 1868-1870
|
| Robert Burns Lindsay
| Democrat
| 1870-1872
|
| David Peter Lewis
| Republican
| 1872-1874
|
| George Smith Houston
| Democrat
| 1874-1878
|
| Rufus Wills Cobb
| Democrat
| 1878-1882
|
| Edward Asbury O'Neil
| Democrat
| 1882-1886
|
| Thomas Seay
| Democrat
| 1886-1890
|
| Thomas Goode Jones
| Democrat
| 1890-1894
|
| William Calvin Oates
| Democrat
| 1894-1896
|
| Joseph Forney Johnston
| Democrat
| 1896-1900
|
| William Dorsey Jelks
| Democrat
| 1900, 1901-1907
|
| William James Sanford
| Democrat
| 1900-1901
|
| Russell McWhorter Cunningham
| Democrat
| 1904-1905
|
| Braxton Bragg Comer
| Democrat
| 1907-1911
|
| Emmet O'Neal
| Democrat
| 1911-1915
|
| Charles Henderson
| Democrat
| 1915-1919
|
| Thomas Erby Kilby
| Democrat
| 1919-1923
|
| William Woodward Brandon
| Democrat
| 1923-1927
|
| Charles Samuel McDowell, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1924
|
| David Bibb Graves
| Democrat
| 1927-1931, 1935-1939
|
| Benjamin Meek Miller
| Democrat
| 1931-1935
|
| Frank Murray Dixon
| Democrat
| 1939-1943
|
| Chauncey Sparks
| Democrat
| 1943-1947
|
| James Elisha Folsom, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1947-1951, 1955-1959
|
| Seth Gordon Persons
| Democrat
| 1951-1955
|
| John Malcolm Patterson
| Democrat
| 1959-1963
|
| George Corley Wallace
| Democrat
| 1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987
|
| Lurleen Burns Wallace
| Democrat
| 1967-1968
|
| Albert Preston Brewer
| Democrat
| 1968-1971
|
| Jere Beasley
| Democrat
| 1972
|
| Forrest Hood (Fob) James, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1979-1983, 1995-1999
|
| Harold Guy Hunt
| Republican
| 1987-1993
|
| James Elisha Folsom, Jr.
| Democrat
| 1993-1995
|
| Don Siegelman
| Democrat
| 1999-2003
|
| Bob Riley
| Republican
| 2003-2011
|
| Robert J. Bentley
| Republican
| 2011-present
|
Further reading
- Stewart, John Craig. The Governors of Alabama. Gretna, La.: Pelican, 1975. 232 pp.
- Webb, Samuel L. and Armbrester, Margaret E., eds. Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State. Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama Pr., 2001. 289 pp.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.netstate.com/states/government/al_formergov.htm
- ↑ Bibb was the governor of the Territory of Alabama from 1817-1819.
