The Alabama native currently ranks 35th in all-time NASCAR Cup victories.

Howard stepped onto the rolling hills of Clemson in 1931 fresh from the varsity football ranks at Alabama where he was a first stringer on Wallace Wade's 1930 team that drubbed Washington State 24 – 0 in the 1931 Rose Bowl Howard was known as the " Little Giant ' of the Tide's " Herd of Red Elephants.

Early in 1864, his regiment was sent back to Alabama to recruit its depleted ranks but was quickly ordered to Dalton, Georgia, where O ' Neal took command of Brig.

Of the 12 SEC member universities, Auburn currently ranks 6th in the number of SEC football championships, behind Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, LSU, and Florida of 8, with 1 vacated in 1984.

* Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, 4 manuals, 29 ranks ( Wurlitzer, 1927 )

Since 1962, Baxley has served in the Alabama Army National Guard, beginning as an enlisted clerk and rising through the ranks to retire as a colonel on May 29, 2001 ( though he turned down the position of General ), JAG Corps.

The school's visual arts program is known as one of the best in the state and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts ranks the school's program in the top 9 percent nationwide, while the school's Forensics Team is the largest speech and debate program in Alabama and has won 13 of the last 14 state championships.

Savage spent the first seven years of his career in the coaching ranks at Alabama, UCLA, and with the San Antonio Riders of the World League.

: Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Alabama ranks:

Hudson, a young Alabama newspaperman, joined the staff of the Advertiser and rose through the ranks of the newspaper.

Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, the second of Clovis and Marvella Smith's six children ( five boys and one girl ).

* March 9 – The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order.

* March 11 – White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb, beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

In a peace gesture to the Buchanan wing of the party, Pierce's supporters allowed Buchanan's allies to fill the second position, knowing that they would select Alabama Senator William R. King.

Morgan County is the most populous county in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, and the second most populous county in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area in the U. S. State of Alabama.

The first Alabama Grill is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, a second opened up in Myrtle beach in 1998.

However, since the year 2000, Baldwin County as a whole, has experienced rapid population growth, second only to Shelby County in Alabama.

* Cornelia Ellis Wallace ( 1939 – 2009 ), the second wife of Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. and the First Lady of Alabama from 1971 – 1978.

Gadsden is home to Gadsden State Community College, the second largest of the 27 two-year institutions in the Alabama Community College System.

The second school was constructed in 1915 and was located at the site of the present school on Alabama State Route 13 in Phil Campbell.

The segment of Interstate 422 from Alabama State Route 79 to Interstate 65 is currently slated to be the second segment of Interstate 422 to be constructed.

North Johns is the second smallest incorporated town in Jefferson County, Alabama ( after Cardiff ).

The Huntsville International Airport, in suburban Huntsville is the second busiest airport in Alabama, behind Birmingham International Airport.

Hartselle is the second largest city in Morgan County, Alabama, United States, about south of Decatur, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, and the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

Although no Interstate highway passes through Rome, it is the second largest city, after Gadsden, Alabama, near the center of the triangular area defined by the Interstate highways between Atlanta, Birmingham and Chattanooga, which contributes to its importance as a regional center in several areas, such as medical care and education.

The current flag of the state of Alabama ( the second in the state's history ) was adopted by Act 383 of the Alabama state legislature on February 16, 1895:

) She was the second of five children of Thomas and Ella ( née Allen ) Pridgett, from Alabama.

Ishmael Jaffree, an American citizen, was a resident of Mobile County, Alabama and a parent of three students who attended school in the Mobile County public school system ; two of the three children were in the second grade and the third was in kindergarten.

Term limits in the Alabama Constitution prevented Wallace from seeking a second term in 1966.

When Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819, a second township was added to the land grant, bringing it to a total of 46, 000 acres ( 186 km² ).

The case went back to the United States Supreme Court for a second time as Norris v. Alabama.

On April 1, 1935, the United States Supreme Court sent the cases back a second time for retrials in Alabama.

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.

* Axis, Alabama, an unincorporated area

* Decatur County, Alabama, a short-lived former county whose area was divided between Madison County and Jackson County, Alabama

TVA's service area covers most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.

From 1540 – 1543, de Soto explored through present-day Florida and Georgia, and then down into the Alabama and Mississippi area.

The first permanent European settler in the Montgomery area was James McQueen, a Scots trader who settled there in 1716 .< ref name =" Owen 1037 ">< cite id = refOwen ></ cite ></ ref > He married a high-status woman in the Coushatta or Alabama tribe.

The area is also home of the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, a park which contains the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

The Alabama Department of Corrections operates the Kilby Correctional Facility in Mount Meigs, an unincorporated area in the county.

As is universal in the Florida Panhandle, a majority of Calhoun County's residents remain much more attached to Southern culture and lifestyle habits than is common in the Central and Southern regions of the state influenced by large amounts of migration, and the area holds much more in common with states such as Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi than with much of Florida.

The largest county in Alabama by area, it includes a portion of Mobile Bay.

Previously, the county had been a part of the Mississippi Territory until 1817, when the area was included in the separate Alabama Territory.

Alabama Department of Corrections operates the Bullock Correctional Facility in an unincorporated area in the county.

The center of population of Alabama is located in Chilton County, outside of the town of Jemison, an area known as Jemison Division.

In 1912 the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad was completed through the county from north to south, connecting the area to the Port of Mobile and northern Alabama.

The county was created on territory of the Cherokee Nation in the nineteenth century, which had encompassed an area of the southern Appalachians, including northeastern Alabama and parts of adjacent present-day Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina.

In total area, it is the smallest county in Alabama.

The area now known as Dale County was originally inhabited by members of the Creek Indian nation, who occupied all of southeastern Alabama during this period.

Historic American Indian tribes in the area included the Creek, Choctaw, and Alabama, who had inhabited the lands for centuries for hunting and settlements.

The split never happened because there was no way for the proposed new county to have enough area — a minimum of 500 square miles — to meet the requirement of the Alabama State Constitution.

* North Alabama Birding Trail-collection of places with the best birdwatching in the area

On November 27, 1821, the Alabama State legislature passed an Act that altered the boundary of Limestone County include the area east of the mouth of the Elk River with the Tennessee River.

Although in the 1830s, the US government removed most of the Choctaw and Creek were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, some chose to remain in this area of Alabama and become state citizens.