Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State

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AlAbAmA Governors AlAbAmA Governors A PoliticAl History of tHe stAte edited by samuel l.Webb and margaret e. Armbrester Foreword by Albert P. brewer The UniversiTy oF AlAbAmA Press Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 uapress.ua.edu Copyright © 2014 by the University of Alabama Press All rights reserved. inquiries about reproducing material from this work should be addressed to the University of Alabama Press. Typeface: bembo manufactured in the United states of America Cover photograph: Top left, William Wyatt bibb; top right, James e. Folsom; bottom left, George C. Wallace; bottom right, robert “bob” renfroe riley. bibb portrait courtesy of mississippi Department of Archives and history. Folsom,Wallace, and riley portraits courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and history. Cover design:Todd lape/lape Designs ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, Ansi Z39.48-1984. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alabama governors :a political history of the state / edited by samuel l.Webb and margaret e. Armbrester ; foreword by Albert P. brewer. — 2nd edition. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8173-1843-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8173-8775-4 (ebook) 1. Governors—Alabama—history. 2. Governors—Alabama—biography. 3. Alabama—Politics and government. i. Webb, samuel l., 1946– ii. Armbrester, margaret e. (margaret england), 1943– F326.A543 2014 976.10092'2—dc23 [b] 2014009583 Territorial governors’ portrait images courtesy mississippi Department of Archives and history. All other images courtesy Alabama Department of Archives and history. Dedicated to the Comer Foundation, whose continued generosity in providing honoraria for the contributors and funding for the photography and cover art helped to make possible the first and second editions of Alabama Governors:A Political History of the State. ...