Governors of Alabama

A list of governors from the state of Alabama.[1]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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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[edit]

* 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[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.netstate.com/states/government/al_formergov.htm
2. ↑ William Wyatt Bibb was the governor of the Territory of Alabama from 1817-1819.
3. ↑ David Bibb Graves was an Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan

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