Letters, 1898.

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Letters, 1898.

Letters from businessmen, lawyers, circuit court clerks, and a U.S. Representative endorsing Tomlinson's efforts in 1898 to be appointed State Railroad Commissioner by Gov. Joseph F. Johnston. Additonal letters of endorsement are located in Gov. Johnston's files.

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Tomlinson, John W., 1858-1911.

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John W. Tomlinson was born 1858 Feb. 1. He received a law degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. in 1882. He removed to Birmingham, Ala., in 1883 and formed a law partnership with C.A. Mountjoy, a connection that continued for 15 years. He was mayor of South Highlands, an early suburb of Birmingham. He invested in real estate and became a director of the Birmingham National Bank. In 1898 Tomlinson was the chairman of the Ala. Democratic State Convention, a delegate from Ala. to the ...

Alabama. Railroad Commission.

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Johnston, Joseph Forney, 1843-1913

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Two Greene County, Alabama families involved in state-level politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The principal figures in the Baltzell family, as relates to this collection, are: Thomas Baltzell (ca. 1813-?), who was born in Waynesboro, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He moved from Wheeling, Virginia to Greene County, Alabama in1835, when he was 22 years old. He earned a degree at Louisville Medical Institute in 1841, then returned to Forkland, in Greene County, to practic...