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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
also known as Henry S. Foote; "Hangman
Foote" —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
Lawyer;
co-founder
of LaGrange College, which later became the University of North
Alabama; fought four duels;
fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 19,
1880 (age 76 years, 81
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Charles Christopher Sheats (1839-1904) —
of Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala.
Born in Walker
County, Ala., April
10, 1839.
Republican. Delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1861-62; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1865; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1872,
1884;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama at-large, 1873-75; defeated, 1874.
Opposed secession in 1860; expelled
from the Alabama House of Representatives in 1862 because of his adherence
to the Union; imprisoned
by Confederate authorities on a charge
of treason,
but never tried.
Died in Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala., May 27,
1904 (age 65 years, 47
days).
Interment at McKendree
Cemetery, Near Decatur, Morgan County, Ala.
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Thomas Hill Watts (1819-1892) —
also known as Thomas H. Watts —
of Alabama.
Born near Greenville, Butler
County, Ala., January
3, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1842-45, 1880-81; member of Alabama
state senate, 1847-53; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1855; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Confederate
Attorney General, 1862-63; Governor of
Alabama, 1863-65; arrested
by Union
forces in Union Springs, Alabama, in May 1865; imprisoned
for a few weeks.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., September
16, 1892 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (1816-1882) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., December
13, 1816.
Democrat. Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1842; state court judge in
Alabama, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1853-61; Senator
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Suspected of conspiring with other Confederates
to assassinate
President Abraham
Lincoln, he was imprisoned
for nearly a year after the war.
Slaveowner.
Died near Gurley, Madison
County, Ala., January
3, 1882 (age 65 years, 21
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala.
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Henry Clay Smith —
also known as Henry C. Smith —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Cartersville, Bartow
County, Ga.
Democrat. U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1893; Santos, 1893-96, resigned 1896; at the time of his resignation
as consul, he was about to be dismissed
over unspecified
misconduct.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Glen Hearst Taylor (1904-1984) —
also known as Glen H. Taylor —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., April
12, 1904.
Country-western
singer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Idaho, 1938; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1945-51; defeated, 1940 (Democratic), 1942
(Democratic), 1956 (Independent); arrested
on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, for attempting
to use a door reserved for Negroes, rather than the whites-only door;
convicted
in 1949 of disorderly conduct; Progressive candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died April
28, 1984 (age 80 years, 16
days).
Interment at Skylawn
Memorial Park, San Mateo, Calif.
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Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897-1973) —
also known as Bull Connor —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., July 11,
1897.
Democrat. Sports
reporter on Birmingham radio;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1935-37; Birmingham Commissioner
of Public
Safety, 1936-52, 1956-63; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1940, 1954; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
arrested
on December 26, 1951, on being found having a tryst
in a hotel room with his secretary, Christina Brown; convicted
of adultery,
fined
and sentenced
to jail,
but the conviction was overturned in 1952; member of Democratic
National Committee from Alabama, 1960-63; an ardent white
supremacist; his use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil
rights demonstrators in 1962-63 provoked national outrage;
candidate for mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March
10, 1973 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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John Frederick Hartsfield (1884-1953) —
also known as John F. Hartsfield —
of Illiopolis, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Monticello, Piatt
County, Ill.; Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
3, 1884.
Democrat. Jeweler;
postmaster at Monticello,
Ill., 1934-46 (acting, 1934-35).
According to published
reports, he had an argument with his daughter-in-law over
disciplining two small children; he then shot
her in the chest (she survived), and then shot and
killed
himself, in Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala., May 9,
1953 (age 69 years, 126
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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Melba Till Allen (1933-1989) —
also known as Melba Till —
of Hope Hull, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Grady, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Marbury, Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Friendship Community, Butler
County, Ala., March 3,
1933.
Democrat. Alabama
state auditor, 1967-75; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1972; Alabama
state treasurer, 1975-78; Convicted
in 1978 of using her position as state treasurer to obtain bank
loans to build a theme park, and for failing
to disclose her personal finances; she denied any wrongdoing; sentenced
to six years in jail,
but spent most of her sentence working as a bookkeeper in a
retirement home.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star.
Died, of cancer,
in Baptist Medical
Center, Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., October
20, 1989 (age 56 years, 231
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Samuel Ben Till and Gertrude (Johnson) Till; married, December
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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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John Logan Cashin Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as John L. Cashin, Jr. —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April
16, 1928.
Democrat. Dentist;
candidate for mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1964; National Democratic candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
of theft
and perjury
in 1982; served 17 months in federal
prison.
Died, of renal
failure and pneumonia,
in Specialty Hospital
of Washington-Hadley, Washington,
D.C., March
21, 2011 (age 82 years, 339
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Jesse M. Norwood —
of Prichard, Mobile
County, Ala.
Mayor
of Prichard, Ala., 1996-2000.
Convicted
of willful
neglect of duty as mayor and removed from office on March 17,
2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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Earl Frederick Hilliard (b. 1942) —
also known as Earl F. Hilliard —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., April 9,
1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1975-81; member of Alabama
state senate, 1981-93; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1993-2003; defeated in
primary, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alabama, 1996,
2000,
2008.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Rebuked
by the House Ethics Committee in June, 2001 over three campaign
finance violations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert Julian Bentley (b. 1943) —
also known as Robert J. Bentley; "The Love
Gov" —
of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Columbiana, Shelby
County, Ala., February
3, 1943.
Republican. Physician;
dermatologist;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 2003-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Alabama, 2008;
Governor
of Alabama, 2011-17; resigned 2017; accused
in 2016 of having an extramarital
affair with Rebekah Caldwell Mason, a politcal advisor on his
campaign staff; an impeachment
resolution was brought; as part of an agreement with prosecutors, he
pleaded
guilty to two campaign
finance violations, including failing
to disclose a $50,000 personal loan to his campaign account; his
sentence was suspended, but he was placed on probation,
ordered to do community
service, and fined
$7,000.
Still living as of 2017.
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