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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alabama. (search)
seph F. JohnstonNov. 1898 to Nov. 1900 W. J. SamfordNov. 1900 to Nov. 1902 United States senators from the State of Alabama. Names.No. of Congress.Date. William R. King16th to 28th1819 to 1844 John W. Walker16th to 17th1819 to 1822 William Kelley17th to 19th1823 to 1825 Henry Chambers19th1825 to 1826 Israel Pickens19th to 20th1826 John McKinley19th to 22d1826 to 1831 Gabriel Moore22d to 25th1831 to 1837 Clement C. Clay25th to 27th1837 to 1841 Arthur P. Bagby27th to 30th1841 to 1848 Dixon H. Lewis28th to 30th1844 to 1848 William R. King30th to 32d1848 to 1852 Benj. Fitzpartrick30th to 36th1848 to 1861 Jeremiah Clemens31st to 33d1849 to 1853 Clement C. Clay. Jr33d to 36th1853 to 1861 37th, 38th, and 39th Congresses vacant. George E. Spencer40th to 46th1868 to 1879 Williard Warner40th to 42d1868 to 1871 George Goldthwaite42d to 45th1872 to 1877 John T. Morgan45th to----1877 to---- James L. Pugh47th to 55th1880 to 1897 Edmund W. Pettus55th to----1897 to----
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elections, federal control of. (search)
r the election of members, but Congress may make or alter them in accordance with its own will. It may alter them by providing for federal supervision, or it may make such new regulations as will assume the entire election from registration to certification. We have, then, two kinds of remedy— the alteration of State regulations and the making of new ones of our own. As to the first method, so far as it was exhibited in the proposed Senate bill for supervision, the Senator from Alabama, Mr. Pugh, when the bill was presented in the Senate, rose and declared: If the bill becomes a law, its execution will insure the shedding of blood and the destruction of the peace and good order of this country. Its passage will be resisted by every parliamentary method, and every method allowed by the Constitution of the United States. This declaration, made at a time when debate is not usual on a bill, will attract attention to the objections which are urged against the supervisor law. Some
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alabama (search)
...1876-77 John T. Morgan, Democratic Senator, presents credentials in the United States Senate......Feb. 27, 1877 Act granting $75 to any resident of the State who lost an arm or leg in the Confederate army......1879 George S. Houston qualifies as United States Senator......March 18, 1879 United States Senator George S. Houston dies......Dec. 31, 1879 Luke Pryor, Democrat, qualifies as United States Senator under executive appointment to fill vacancy......Jan. 15, 1880 James L. Pugh, United States Senatorelect qualifies......Dec. 6, 1880 State treasurer I. H. Vincent absconds, leaving a deficit of about $212,000......January, 1883 State agricultural department goes into operation, with E. C. Betts, of Madison county, as commissioner......Sept. 1, 1883 Congress grants the State 46,080 acres of land for the benefit of the university......April 23, 1884 Foundation of a monument to the Confederate soldiers of the State laid on the grounds of the capitol in M