Alabama Governors : A Political History of the State.

Intro -- 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 -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Appendix A: Governors of Alabama -- Appendix B: Provenance of Governors' Portraits -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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