ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Gabriel Moore
January 14, 2025
Gabriel Moore, Alabama’s fifth governor, was born in North Carolina’s Piedmont section near the city of Greensboro in 1785. His formal education came at a Greensboro academy known as the… READ MORE
Category: Alabama Governors
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: John Murphy
January 9, 2025
John Murphy was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, in 1785, but he grew up in South Carolina, where he went to preparatory school. He attended South Carolina College in… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: Israel Pickens
December 19, 2024
Born in North Carolina in 1780, Alabama’s third governor, Israel Pickens, became a major political figure in his native state before moving to Alabama. Pickens attended college in Pennsylvania, read… READ MORE
ALABAMA GOVERNORS: William Wyatt Bibb & Thomas Bibb
December 12, 2024
Alabama was not designated by Congress as a formal territory of the United States until 1817, but thousands of white settlers of all economic classes began to pour into the… READ MORE
Alabama’s Territorial Governors
December 3, 2024
In 1798 the US Congress formed the Mississippi Territory out of the present-day states of Mississippi and Alabama above the thirty-first parallel, but during the first decade of the nineteenth… READ MORE
