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State Treasurer Of Alabama
The Alabama State Treasurer acts as the head banker for the State of Alabama, handling deposits, withdrawals, redemptions of state warrants and investments of state funds. The position was created in 1819 when Alabama became a state. Its constitution established the Office of the Treasurer of State, a position that would be elected by the legislature. Individuals serving as state treasurer were elected annually by the General Assembly from 1819 to 1861. Beginning in 1861, the treasurer was elected biennially from until 1868 and was elected by popular vote for a term of two years in 1868. Arthur Bingham's election in 1868 marked the first time a Republican would hold the office. Kay Ivey in 2002 would become the second Republican to hold the office. The treasurer began to be elected to a four-year term as a result of the 1901 Constitution but could not serve successive terms until a 1968 amendment. In 1950, Sibyl Pool (D) would become the first of seven different women to be elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Boozer
Young Jacob Boozer III (born November 23, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 39th State Treasurer of Alabama from 2011 to 2019. He was elected to his first four-year term on November 2, 2010, and was unopposed and reelected for a second term on November 4, 2014. He left office on January 14, 2019. As State Treasurer, Boozer played a role in managing the Alabama Trust Fund (ATF). Boozer led the effort to restructure and save the Alabama Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program (PACT). Boozer also served on various state-related boards including Alabama's Teacher Retirement System and Employee Retirement System Boards, the State Board of Adjustment, the Alabama Housing Finance Authority, the Community Service Grants Executive Commission, the Industrial Access Road and Bridge Corporation Board and the 457 Advisory Board. He currently serves on the Board of the Alabama Transportation Infrastructure Bank. Boozer presently serves as Assistant Superintendent of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ellis (politician)
George Ellis may refer to: * George F. R. Ellis (born 1939), South African cosmologist and mathematician * George Ellis (poet) (1753–1815), English poet * George F. Ellis (1903–1972), American cattleman and author * George Henry Ellis (1875–1898), U.S. Navy sailor during the Spanish–American War * George R. Ellis (born 1937), author, art historian and director of the Honolulu Museum of Art * George Edward Ellis (1814–1894), Unitarian clergyman and historian * George Viner Ellis (1812–1900), British anatomist * George Washington Ellis (1875–1919), African American attorney, writer, and speaker * George Ellis (composer) (born 1964), Australian conductor and composer * George Ellis (athlete) (born 1932), English sprinter * George Ellis (silversmith) (1863–1944), British silversmith See also * George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover (1797–1833), English nobleman * George Ellis Pugh George Ellis Pugh (November 28, 1822July 19, 1876) was a Democratic politician from Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melba Till Allen
Melba Till Allen (March 3, 1933 – October 20, 1989) was an American politician who served as the Auditor of Alabama from 1967 to 1975 and as the Treasurer of Alabama from 1975 to 1978. Allen (D) was convicted in 1978 of using her office to obtain favorable bank loans for several personal businesses including a religious theme park. She failed to disclose these business ventures and a full disclosure of her personal finances. She was sentenced to six years in jail and three and a half years of probation. She died of cancer on October 20, 1989, in Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 202 ... at age 56. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Melba Till 1933 births 1989 deaths Deaths from cancer in Alabama State Auditors of Alabama State tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Texas Hurt Garner
Mary Texas Hurt Garner (October 3, 1928 – July 1, 1997) was a politician from Alabama. She served as Alabama State Treasurer from 1963 to 1967, State Auditor of Alabama from 1959 to 1963 and Secretary of State of Alabama from 1955 to 1959. She received a degree from George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , preside ... and was admitted to the Alabama Bar Association by examination and practiced law one year in Scottsboro before becoming a member of the state Attorney General's office. She resigned this position to become a candidate for the office of Secretary of State in 1954 and was elected State Auditor in 1958 and State Treasurer in 1962. According to the Centreville Press (Centreville, AL): "Before entering law school, Miss Hurt was the Manager fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Baggett
Agnes Beahn Baggett (April 9, 1905 – December 15, 1992) was an American politician who served in the state of Alabama. She served as Alabama's Secretary of State from 1951 to 1955, 1963–1967 and 1975–1979. She also served as Alabama State Treasurer from 1959–1963 and 1967–1975. She was also the inaugural holder of the position of State Auditor. Early life Baggett was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it ... where she was educated in public schools. Career Baggett served as law clerk in the office of the district attorney of the L. & N. Railroad at Montgomery from March 1925 to October 1927, and in the Alabama Secretary of State's office from October 1927 to March 1946. She also served as assistant clerk of the Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibyl Pool
Sibyl Murphree Pool (1901–1973) was a politician from Alabama. She was first appointed as the Secretary of State of Alabama in 1944 following the resignation of David Howell Turner. In 1950, she was elected Alabama State Treasurer and served until 1955. Pool was born in 1901 in York, Alabama. She graduated from Alabama State College for Women, now known as the University of Montevallo. She then went on to attend the Livingston State Teacher's College. In 1936, she was elected to fill in a two-year vacancy in the Alabama House of Representatives. In 1944, Governor Chauncey Sparks appointed Pool to serve as Secretary of State. In 1946, she became the first woman elected to statewide office in Alabama as Secretary of State. She ran for treasurer in 1950 and carried 65 of 67 of Alabama's counties. In 1954, she was elected to the first of four terms on the Alabama Public Service Commission The Alabama Public Service Commission, commonly called the PSC, was established by an act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marvin Brandon
John Marvin Brandon (May 8, 1888 – September 16, 1960) was a politician from Alabama. He served as State Auditor of Alabama from 1931 to 1935, 1943 to 1947 and 1951 to 1955. He also served as Alabama State Treasurer from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959 and served as Secretary of State of Alabama The secretary of state of Alabama is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Alabama. The office actually predates the statehood of Alabama, dating back to the Alabama Territory. From 1819 to 1901, the secretary of state served ... from 1927 to 1931 and 1939 to 1943. Brandon began his business career in the State Auditor's office in Montgomery, July 1908 and in January 1923, he was appointed Secretary of the Alabama Public Service Commission. He married in June 1915 and had one child. He died on September 16, 1960. References * 1888 births 1960 deaths alabama Democrats {{Alabama-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lusk
Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1987), who previously wrestled as "Walter" * Walter, standard author abbreviation for Thomas Walter (botanist) ( – 1789) Companies * American Chocolate, later called Walter, an American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1906 * Walter Energy, a metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry * Walter Aircraft Engines, Czech manufacturer of aero-engines Films and television * ''Walter'' (1982 film), a British television drama film * Walter Vetrivel, a 1993 Tamil crime drama film * ''Walter'' (2014 film), a British television crime drama * ''Walter'' (2015 film), an American comedy-drama film * ''Walter'' (2020 film), an Indian crime drama film * ''W*A*L*T*E*R'', a 1984 pilot for a spin-off of the TV series ''M*A*S*H'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles McCall (Alabama Politician)
Charles Adelbert McCall III (born April 19, 1970) is an American politician who currently serves as the Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, he represents the 22nd House District, which is located in southeastern Oklahoma. Early life and education McCall was born on April 19, 1970 to Charles Andrew McCall and Barbara Ann McCall (née Clure), in Atoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from Atoka High School in 1988. He attended the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in finance and economics. He became a licensed nursing home administrator in 1993 before earning an MBA in banking at the University of Colorado Boulder Graduate School of Banking, graduating in 2000. Career Early career Beginning in high school, McCall started working as a part-time bank teller at AmeriState Bank, a family-owned bank that was bought by his grandfather C.A. McCall in 1967. He became president of AmeriState in 2001 and CEO in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Blann
Sidney may refer to: People * Sidney (surname), English surname * Sidney (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Sidney (footballer, born 1972), full name Sidney da Silva Souza, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Sidney (footballer, born 1979), full name Sidney Santos de Brito, Brazilian football defender Characters * Sidney Prescott, main character from the ''Scream'' horror trilogy * Sidney (''Ice Age''), a ground sloth in the ''Ice Age'' film series * Sidney (''Pokémon''), a character of the ''Pokémon'' universe *Sidney, one of ''The Bash Street Kids'' * Sidney Jenkins, a character in the British teenage drama '' Skins'' *Sidney Hever, Edward's fireman from ''The Railway Series'' and the TV series ''Thomas and Friends'' *Sidney, a diesel engine from the TV series ''Thomas and Friends'' *Sidney Freedman, a recurring character in the TV series ''M*A*S*H'' Places Canada * Sidney, British Columbia * Sidney, Manitoba United Kingdom *Sidney Sussex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allgood
William Barnett Allgood (April 5, 1868 – July 18, 1933) was a government official in Alabama, serving as the State Auditor of Alabama from 1923 to 1927 and Alabama State Treasurer from 1927 to 1932. Early life William Barnett Allgood was born on April 5, 1868 in the town of Allgood (then named Chepultepec) in Blount County, Alabama. His father was Dr. William Allgood and his mother was Mary Matilda (Ingram) Allgood. One of his brothers was Miles Clayton Allgood, who also served in the state government of Alabama and was a U.S. Representative. Allgood attended public schools in Chepultepec and attended the Enterprise Academy. Career Allgood was a teacher for one year at Enterprise Academy and for one year at Arkadelphia. From 1901 to 1906, Allgood worked in the dairy industry and in truck farming. From 1907 to 1912, Allgood was the chief clerk of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Birmingham, Alabama. From 1913 to 1914, Allgood was the fire inspector for Birmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bradley (Alabama Politician)
Robert, Bob, or Bobby Bradley may refer to: * Bob Bradley (born 1958), American soccer coach *Bob Bradley (composer) (born 1974), British composer, singer, and songwriter *Bob Bradley (footballer) (1924–1999), Australian rules footballer * Bob Bradley (wrestler), American wrestler *Bobby Bradley (first baseman) (born 1996), American baseball player *Bobby Bradley (pitcher) (born 1980), American baseball player *J. Robert Bradley (1919–2007), American gospel singer *Rob Bradley (born 1970), Florida state senator * Robert B. Bradley, Florida State University administrator *Robert G. Bradley (1921–1944), Navy Cross recipient (posthumous); namesake of USS ''Robert G. Bradley'' (FFG-49) *Robert L. Bradley Jr. (born 1955), American historian *Robert Bradley (psychologist) (born 1946), American psychologist See also * USS ''Robert G. Bradley'' (FFG-49), United States Navy frigate * Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, American blues group fronted by Robert Bradley *Bradley method of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
