Appointments files, 1882-1886.

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Appointments files, 1882-1886.

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The governor of Ala. is responsible for making appointments to various state and local offices and for signing grants and commissions. This series consists of letters and petitions relating to appointments, appointment recommendations, and resignations. The main state-appointed positions, for which petitions and letters of recommendations were sent to the governor, are watchman of the capitol building and grounds, Ordnance Sergeant of the Ala. troops, and Inspectors of the Penitentiary (also referred to as Inspector of Convicts). In 1885, the title "Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary" was legislatively changed to "Board of Inspectors of Convicts." Another position for which petitions and letters were sent is for the office of judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Ala. Some of the letters are to or from William C. Oates, J.L. Pugh, prison inspector J.H. Judkins, the governor's private secretary Robert McKee, attorney J.G. Harris, and former Governor Rufus Wills Cobb. Also included are letters about Rufus Wills Cobb, J.H. Judkins, and J.G. Harris. The letter from Robert McKee is a recommendation for Dr. Henry J. Winn of Birmingham to be appointed to the position of Superintendent of Convicts. The letters from and about Rufus Wills Cobb pertain to his appointment as judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Ala. The oversized folder contains the appointment of James W. Lapsley to the office of agent of the State of Ala. within the Republic of Mexico, ordering him to return Isaac H. Vincent to Ala.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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McKee, Robert, 1830-1901.

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Judkins, J.H. b.1839.

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Alabama. Governor (1882-1886 : E.A. O'Neal).

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Alabama. Board of Inspectors of Convicts (1885-1893).

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Winn, Henry Jasper, b.1836.

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Lapsley, James T.

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Vincent, Isaac H., 1840-1898.

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Oates, William C. (William Calvin), 1835-1910

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Oates was born 1835 Dec. 1 in Pike, now Bullock Co., Ala., to William and Sarah Sellers Oates. He left home at sixteen and led a roving life in the southwest. From 1851-1855 he taught school in Henry Co., Ala. In 1858 and 1859 he attended high school at Lawrenceville, Barbour Co., Ala., and studied law at the office of Pugh, Bullock, and Buford in Eufaula, Barbour Co., Ala. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Abbeville, Barbour Co., Ala., from 1859-1861. During the Civil War, he ser...

Cobb, Rufus Wills, 1829-1913.

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Harris, John G. 1834-1908.

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Alabama. Governor (1878-1882: Cobb).

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Alabama. Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary (1841-1885).

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Pugh, J.L. 1819-1907.

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