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Alabama -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Roy L. Nolen correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1051
Abstract

Correspondence between Montgomery, Alabama, postmaster and Democratic Party activist Roy L. Nolen and U.S. Senator Lister Hill as well as a few other persons. The letters address appointments, elections, political campaigns, the war effort, and etc, 1928-1944.

Dates: 1925-1944

Israel Pickens correspondence

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Identifier: MSS-1146
Abstract

Correspondence from Pickens containing information about selecting of the University of Alabama seal after the University's incorporation.

Dates: 1822-1825

Presidential political campaign ephemera, 2012

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3703
Abstract

Bumper stickers and pins from the Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan presidential campaigns for 2012.

Dates: 2012

Republican Party Letters of Recommendation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3895
Abstract

Two unsigned letters providing reasons why L. J. Bryan and Attorney Reese should not be given federal appointments

Dates: circa 1905

Rufus W. Cobb Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2011
Abstract

Letter, dated November 18, 1879 written by Rufus W. Cobb, Governor of Alabama, to General A. McD. McCook, declining an invitation to attend the 11th reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and the unveiling of the memorial statue of General George H. Thomas.

Dates: 1879-11-18

Charles H. Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3060
Abstract

Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.

Dates: 1889-1906

State of Alabama Candidate Declaration form

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3534
Abstract

State of Alabama Candidate Declaration form.

Dates: 1938

Winston C. Shotts biography of Winston Stidham

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1269
Abstract

Biographical sketch of Winston Stidham, an anti-secessionist from Winston County, Alabama, and a delegate to the Alabama secession convention, January - February 1861.

Dates: circa 1943

Letters from U.S. Senators regarding the "Telepost Bill" of 1910

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Identifier: MSS-3730
Abstract

Letters from three U.S. Senators from Alabama to constituents in 1910 regarding the "Telepost Bill" before the 61st Congress.

Dates: 1910

Thomas P. Abernethy manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0004
Abstract

Two galleys with corrections and one type-written manuscript of Abernethy's study, The Formative Period in Alabama, subsequently published as part of the historical series of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. It is a social and political history and originated as Abernethy's doctoral thesis at Harvard University.

Dates: circa 1965

George Corley Wallace Presidential Campaign Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1511
Abstract

An information pack from Wallace's 1972 presidential campaign.

Dates: 1968

Walter Burgwyn Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0110
Abstract

Speeches, pamphlets, correspondence, and other materials related to the life and career of Alabama circuit court judge Walter Burgwyn Jones.

Dates: 1877 - 1981

White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates: 1957