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Engelhardt, Sam (Samuel Martin), 1912-1991.
Samuel Martin Engelhardt, Jr., 1912-1991, received his early education in Shorter, Alabama. He attended McCallie Preparatory School in 1930 and Washington and Lee University from 1930 to 1932. In 1935 he married Sara Miller Bonner. They had four children: Samuel Martin III, Miller Bonner, Sara Marlow and Harriet Brice.
Engelhardt was a planter and ginner in Shorter, Alabama, as well as a prominent politician known for his strong stand on segregation. He began his political career in the Alabama House of Representatives, serving as a representative of Macon County from 1950 to 1954. From 1954 to 1958 he served as a state senator from Macon and Bullock Counties. His legislative accomplishments included authorship of the Alabama Placement Act, 1956; the Tuskegee Gerrymandering Act, 1957; and the Macon County Dissolution Act, 1957. Engelhardt ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1958 and for governor in 1962. He was associated with the White Citizens Council.
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Engelhardt, Samuel, 1912-1991.
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Samuel Engelhardt, a farmer and merchant in Macon County (Ala.), was a prominent Alabama politician who served in the State House of Representatives from 1950-1954 and in the State Senate from 1954-1958. From 1959 to 1963, Engelhardt served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama as well as Highway Department director for Governor John Patterson. In 1962, Engelhardt ran for governor, but he lost in the Democratic Primary to George C. Wallace. From the description...
