Success was often obtained through electoral fusion, with the Democrats outside the South, but with alliances with the Republicans in Southern states like Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

James T. Rapier ( also of Alabama ) submitted a motion that the convention condemn all Republicans who had opposed President Grant in that year's election.

In 1964, Alabama Republicans stood to benefit from the unintended consequences of two developments: ( 1 ) Governor Wallace vacating the race for the Democratic presidential nomination against President Johnson, and ( 2 ) the designation of unpledged Democratic electors in Alabama, in effect removing President Johnson from the general election ballot.

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Among the earliest uses were references in this new meaning were Alabama and Georgia newspapers in the summer of 1867, first referring to all southern Republicans, then later restricting it to only White ones.

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Republicans also took control of both houses of the Alabama and North Carolina state legislatures for the first time since Reconstruction.

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

When election disputes occurred during the Alabama state elections in 1872 ; both state Democrats and Republicans appealed to U. S. Attorney General Williams for settlement.

On December 12, 1872 President Grant and George Henry Williams peacefully settled the disputed Alabama state elections between the Democrats and Republicans by issueing five resolutions to Governor David P. Lewis.

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Category: Alabama Republicans

Initially, the balance was 52 – 48 in favor of the Republicans, but after the power change, Democrats Richard Shelby of Alabama and Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado switched parties, bringing the balance to 54 – 46 before the resignation of Bob Packwood of Oregon and his replacement by Democrat Ron Wyden finalized the balance at 53 – 47.

The Republicans captured the open seats in Alabama, Arkansas, and Nebraska.

Without losing any seats, the Republicans took open seats in Alabama, Alaska, and Florida, and defeated nine incumbents: Herman Talmadge ( D-GA ), Frank Church ( D-ID ), Birch E. Bayh II ( D-IN ), John Culver ( D-IA ), John A. Durkin ( D-NH ), Robert Morgan ( D-NC ), 1972 presidential nominee George S. McGovern ( D-SD ), Warren Magnuson ( D-WA ), and Gaylord Nelson ( D-WI ) ( see Reagan's coattails ).

The Populist Party ran candidates in the South and Midwest, but generally lost ground, outside Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas where state-level fusion with the Republicans was successful despite Populist and Republican antagonism at the national level.

Graddick won by a few thousand votes, but Baxley appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled Graddick had violated primary regulations by encouraging Republicans to “ cross over ” and vote as Democrats.

An Alabama soldier whose feminine associations were of the more admirable type wrote boastfully of his achievements among the Virginia belles: `` they thout I was a saint.

The Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers were central to the homeland of the Creek Indians before their removal by United States forces to the Indian Territory in the 1830s. In 1712 the Alabama River was descovered.

It became apparent that, as the slavery issue took center stage, the slaveholding states were more reluctant to agree with the bill, with the primary antagonists being the senators in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Alabama.

The ten numbers, which include the " Alabama Song " and " Benares Song ", were duly incorporated into the full opera.

The other listed destinations were Istanbul, Berlin, Cape Town, Saqqara, Washington DC, Cambodia, Waiheke Island, Cartagena, Waterton Lakes National Park, the Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail, Alabama and the Lassen Volcanic National Park

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In September 2006, new claims that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker may not be extinct were released by a research group consisting of members from Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Windsor in Ontario.

In the aftermath of the Treaty of Fort Jackson and the Treaty of Washington, the Muscogee were confined to a small strip of land in present-day east central Alabama.

They ran away from school together and were arrested in Alabama for arson and vandalism a short time later.

In May 1998, three white supremacists were arrested for allegedly planning a nationwide campaign of assassinations and bombings targeting " Morris Dees, an undisclosed federal judge in Illinois, a black radio-show host in Missouri, Dees's Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and the Anti-Defamation League in New York.

The other versions used for the series were performed by, in season order, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, " DoMaJe " and Steve Earle.

In Powell v. Alabama,, the Supreme Court ruled that “ in a capital case, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel, and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble mindedness, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him .” In Johnson v. Zerbst,, the Supreme Court ruled that in all federal cases, counsel would have to be appointed for defendants who were too poor to hire their own.

* During 2010, resolutions were introduced or reintroduced into the legislatures of 21 states ; the resolution passed in seven states ( Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Utah, and Wyoming ).

27 states had called for a constitutional convention on the subject, with 31 states needed to reach the threshold ; Arizona and New Mexico each achieved statehood that year ( bringing the total number of states to 48 ), and were expected to support the motion, while Alabama and Wyoming, already states, had passed resolutions in favor of a convention without formally calling for one.

Other contenders were Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio, and Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama.

Thousands of boats, piers, and beach houses were damaged by waves exceeding high, and the battleship USS Alabama was pushed off her moorings, leaving her listing to port ( tilted to the left ).

During the 1993 Waco Siege of the Branch Davidians, elements of the Alabama and Texas Army National Guard were called in to assist the ATF and the follow on effort by the FBI ; the National Guard's involvement was limited to several specific areas ; surveillance and reconnaissance, transport, maintenance and repairs, training and instruction, helicopters, unarmed tactical ground vehicles.

On 12 April 2009, in response to a hostage-taking incident off of the coast of Somalia by Somalian pirates, three Navy SEALs from DEVGRU simultaneously engaged and killed the three pirates who were closely holding the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, of the freighter ship, the Maersk Alabama.

* Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana ( the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated ).

For example, Alabama Klansmen like Hugo Black were among the foremost advocates of better public schools, effective Prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other " progressive " measures to benefit poor whites.

After a number of deaths of Chiricahua at the Fort Marion prison near St. Augustine, Florida, the survivors were moved, first to Alabama, and later to Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

As a French ally he opposed Britain during the American Revolution in June 1779, supplying large quantities of weapons and munitions to the rebels and keeping one third of all the British forces in the Americas occupied defending Florida and what is now Alabama, which were ultimately recaptured by Spain.

Similar voter registration campaigns — with similar responses — were begun by SNCC, CORE, and SCLC in Louisiana, Alabama, southwest Georgia, and South Carolina.

The war attracted tens of thousands of laborers from around the country, though most were poor whites and blacks from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — sharecroppers and tenant farmers who had been recruited by Henry J. Kaiser to work in his shipyards.