Governors of Alabama
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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[3] | 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 | 2011–2017 |
| Kay Ivey | Republican | 2017–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
- ↑ William Wyatt Bibb was the governor of the Territory of Alabama from 1817-1819.
- ↑ David Bibb Graves was an Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan
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