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Will Boyd —
of Greenville, Bond
County, Ill.
Democrat. Pastor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2010; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 5th District, 2016; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 2017.
Still living as of 2017.
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Joseph Breault —
Republican. Chaplain; candidate for Utah
state house of representatives, 2016; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 2017.
Still living as of 2017.
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Sidney Johnston Catts (1863-1936) —
also known as Sidney J. Catts —
of Florida.
Born in Pleasant Hill, Dallas
County, Ala., July 31,
1863.
Democrat. Lawyer;
pastor; insurance
agent; Governor of
Florida, 1917-21; defeated in primary, 1924, 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen of
the World.
Lost
his right eye in a childhood accident.
Died in DeFuniak Springs, Walton
County, Fla., March 9,
1936 (age 72 years, 222
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
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Iverson Dawson (b. 1859) —
of Eutaw, Greene
County, Ala.
Born in Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala., 1859.
Republican. Minister; postmaster of Eutaw, Ala., 1890;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1896;
member, Committee on Permanent Organization, 1892,
1896.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Our Baptist Ministers and Schools (1892) |
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Ira Flax (born c.1961) —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born about 1961.
Republican. Rabbi; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Alabama, 2008
(speaker).
Jewish.
Still living as of 2008.
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Harold Guy Hunt (1933-2009) —
also known as Guy Hunt —
of Holly Pond, Cullman
County, Ala.
Born in Holly Pond, Cullman
County, Ala., June 17,
1933.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
Baptist minister; candidate for Alabama
state senate, 1962; probate judge in Alabama, 1964-76; Governor of
Alabama, 1987-93; defeated in primary, 1978.
Baptist.
Convicted
in 1993 of misusing
campaign
and inaugural funds to pay personal debts, and removed from
office as Governor.
Died January
30, 2009 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Johnson (1804-1882) —
of Blount
County, Ala.; Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.; Blanco
County, Tex.
Born in Knox
County, Tenn., June 15,
1804.
Methodist minister; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1832-33; member of Alabama
state senate, 1834, 1836.
Methodist.
Died in Blanco
County, Tex., December
17, 1882 (age 78 years, 185
days).
Interment at Old
Johnson Cemetery, Near Blanco, Blanco County, Tex.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor; leader in the civil rights movement;
co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; escaped
death in 1963 when his hotel room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 2008.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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C. Robert Marsh —
of Laurel, Jones
County, Miss.; Dothan, Houston
County, Ala.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Mississippi.
Democrat. Pastor; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988.
Southern
Baptist.
Still living as of 2016.
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John Gardner Murray (1857-1929) —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lonaconing, Allegany
County, Md., August
31, 1857.
Democrat. Episcopal priest; Bishop of Maryland, 1911-29;
Presiding Bishop of the United States, 1926-29; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912.
Methodist;
later Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, of a stroke,
during a session
of the House of Bishops, in St. James Church,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., October
3, 1929 (age 72 years, 33
days).
Interment at Druid
Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of James Murray and Ann (Kirkwood) Murray; married, October
13, 1881, to Harriet May 'Hattie' Sprague; married, December
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Charles Taylor (1819-1897) —
of Millersburg, Bourbon
County, Ky.; Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
15, 1819.
Democrat. Minister; missionary; president,
Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1866-70; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1880.
Methodist.
Died in Courtland, Lawrence
County, Ala., February
5, 1897 (age 77 years, 143
days).
Interment at Courtland Cemetery, Courtland, Ala.
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Bradley Mark Walker (b. 1969) —
also known as Mark Walker —
Born in Dothan, Houston
County, Ala., May 20,
1969.
Republican. Minister; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 2015-.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2018.
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Lacey Kirk Williams —
also known as Lacey K. Williams —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Eufaula, Barbour
County, Ala.
Republican. Ordained minister; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1928,
1936.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Levi Williams and Elizabeth Williams; married, August
16, 1894, to Georgia Lewis. |
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Robert Lee Williams (1868-1948) —
also known as Robert L. Williams —
of Durant, Bryan
County, Okla.
Born near Brundidge, Pike
County, Ala., December
20, 1868.
Democrat. Methodist minister; lawyer;
member of Democratic National Committee from Indian Territory,
1904-07; delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; justice of
Oklahoma state supreme court, 1907-14; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker);
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1915-19; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1919-37; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 1937-39.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
at Wilson N. Jones Hospital,
Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., April
10, 1948 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Durant, Okla.
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