STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED

In this post we will looking at Alabama and its territories, Its past and present governors and current House of representative’s members.

INTRODUCTION.

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north; Georgia to the east; Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south; and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state. Alabama is nicknamed the Yellow hammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the “Heart of Dixie” and the “Cotton State”. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama’s capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama’s largest metropolitan area and its economic center. Originally home to many native tribes, present-day Alabama was a Spanish territory beginning in the sixteenth century until the French acquired it in the early eighteenth century. The British won the territory in 1763 until losing it in the American Revolutionary War. Spain held Mobile as part of Spanish West Florida until 1813. In December 1819, Alabama was recognized as a state. During the antebellum period, Alabama was a major producer of cotton, and widely used African American slave labor. In 1861, the state seceded from the United States to become part of the Confederate States of America, with Montgomery acting as its first capital, and rejoined the Union in 1868.

ALABAMA TERRITORIES.

Alabama’s long road to independent territorial status entered its final act on March 3, 1817. The newly designated Alabama Territory, the eastern half of the enormous tract of the American southwestern frontier known as the Mississippi Territory, on that date began its transition to a separate political entity by the terms of an enabling act passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. James Madison. The act set out the process by which the western portion of the territory, the future state of Mississippi, would enter the Union and organized the eastern section into the Alabama Territory. For the first time since the formation of the Mississippi Territory a generation prior in 1798, the circuitous path towards statehood for the region at last lay clear. The new Alabama Territory, only recently beginning to match the rapid population growth of its sectional rival—which was itself poised to enter the Union as the state of Mississippi—would barely have time to assume its place on maps before it had its own star on the American flag. The rapid pace of development stunned observers. Long referred to as the “backwoods” of the Mississippi Territory, what became Alabama had seemed to languish compared to the steady pace of growth of the territory’s western section. The southernmost portion of the new Alabama Territory had actually been a Spanish colony less than five years before its creation, and most of the territory’s other lands had officially been Native American domain as recently as a decade earlier. The region’s relatively small population had grown begrudgingly accustomed to being overshadowed and overlooked by the Mississippi Territory’s seat of government at Natchez, which wielded influence disproportionate to its size. The Alabama Territory’s residents thus cherished their opportunity for self-determination with a particular relish in the wake of the frustration and angst bred by their many years of being governed by what they perceived to be faraway aristocrats.

LIST OF GOVERNORS AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE’S MEMBERS. Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819. It seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. Following the end of the American Civil War, Alabama during Reconstruction was part of the Third Military District, which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. Alabama was readmitted to the Union on July 14, 1868. Alabama was a strongly Democratic state before the Civil War, electing only candidates from the Democratic-Republican and Democratic parties. It had two Republican governors following Reconstruction, but after the Democratic Party re-established control, 112 years passed before voters chose another Republican. As of June 2022, a total of 183 individuals have represented Alabama in the U.S. House representatives and 55 Governors.

LIST OF GOVERNORS OF ALABAMA.

MEMBERS OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. HOUSE FROM ALABAMA

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Alabama. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Alabama. The list of names should be complete, but other data may be incomplete.

LIST OF MEMBERS