Appointments files, 1857-1861.

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Appointments files, 1857-1861.

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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 correspondence relating to appointments, resignations, commissions, and special elections. The majority of applications are for appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. Other appointive posts included are: Commissioner of Seeds for Ala. in other states; Agent for the Detection of Swamps and Overflowed Lands; Warden of the State Penitentiary; Commissioners of Pilotage for the Bay and Harbor of Mobile; attorney to settle the boundary line between Ala. and Ga.; and temporary appointments of county sheriffs and probate judges until an election could be held. Of particular importance are the letters recommending the appointment in 1858 of a General Superintendent of Public Schools. Among the applicants for the office are Noah K. Davis of Howard College, Jonathan Dunklin of Dallas Academy, M.F. Woodruff of the University of Ala., and William F. Johns of Tuskegee Classical and Scientific Institute. Included is a letter from John Gill Shorter recommending the appointment of William F. Johns. A petition in favor of the appointment of Robert S. Lewis to the office of Supt. contains the signatures of Lewis E. Parsons and Robert Jemison.

Originals: 10.5 folders (1 archives box).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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University of Alabama

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Alabama. Commissioners to Cooperate with Commissioners from Georgia.

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Parsons, Lewis E. 1847-1916.

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Alabama. Governor (1857-1861: A.B. Moore).

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Alabama. Board of Swamp Land Commissioners.

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Woodruff, M.F.

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Davis, Noah K. (Noah Knowles), 1830-1910

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University of Virginia professor of moral philosophy. From the description of Papers of Noah K. Davis [manuscript], 1895-1896. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813220 ...

Dunklin, Jonathan.

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Alabama. Commissioners of Pilotage of the Bay and Harbor of Mobile.

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Alabama. Superintendent of Education (1854-1868).

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Jemison, Robert, 1802-1871

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Robert Jemison, Jr., was a planter, lawyer, businessman, state representative and senator, member of the Alabama Secession Convention, and Confederate States Senator. He was born September 17, 1802, in Lincoln County, Georgia, near Augusta, and died October 17, 1871 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was the son of William and Sarah (Mims) Jemison. He was educated by Professor N. S. S. Beaman, the stepfather of William Lowndes Yancey, and attended the University of Georgia. Among his classmates were Dix...

Johns, William Francis, 1930-

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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872

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Civil War governor of Ala. From the description of Papers, 1860-1861. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247275 Governor of Alabama and jurist. From the description of John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980457 ...

Alabama. Commissioners of Seeds.

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