The Alabama Academy of Honor recognizes one hundred living Alabamians for outstanding accomplishments and services to Alabama and the United States.
[ .] By act of the Alabama Legislature, only one hundred living people may be members at any time. Up to ten additional members per year are elected by current members when honorees pass away, by majority vote in order of highest vote total. Any Alabama citizen or Academy member may nominate people for election. Living present and past governors of Alabama are automatically members of the Academy and do not count against the 100-person maximum. At any time, no more than twenty-five percent of the Academy's members may be politicians.
Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black was the only person to ever decline membership in the Academy, after a vow to refuse all honors.
Establishment
The Alabama Academy of Honor was created by the
Alabama State Legislature
The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of Alabama. It is a bicameral body composed of the House of Representatives and Senate. It is one of the few state legislatures in which members of both chambers serv ...
on October 29, 1965, through Act 15 of the Third Special Session of the 1965 Legislature of Alabama. The Academy was intended to honor notable living Alabama citizens, since several organizations already existed in the state for posthumous recognition.
On March 10, 1965, Missouri native and Alabama citizen Emmett Bryan Carmichael wrote to Alabama Governor
George C. Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and ...
to suggest modeling an Academy after Missouri's "Academy of Squires". The idea was postponed until Governor
Albert P. Brewer revived interest in the legislation. On October 25, 1968, a committee appointed by Governor Brewer and chaired by Emmett Carmichael selected the first ten members (as well as four governors). On a somewhat annual basis, later elections selected several new Alabamians until the 100-person cap was reached.
Members by election year
Source:
[Alabama Academy of Honor]
Academy of Honor Inductees by Year
2020
Jo Bonner
Josiah Robins Bonner Jr. (born November 19, 1959) is an American academic administrator and former politician who currently serves as the fourth president of the University of South Alabama. He was previously the U.S. representative for from 20 ...
---U.S. Congressman, 1st District of Alabama, 2003-2013
J. Gary Cooper----U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, 1994-1997
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, h ...
----Human rights advocate, founder of Equal Justice Initiative
2019
No inductees
2018
Walter Bell----banker, Alabama Insurance Commissioner
U. W. Clemon----1st African-American Federal judge in Alabama
Ann Florie-----public servant
D. Paul Jones, Jr.------banker
Stancil Starnes-------lawyer/insurance executive
2017
Kay Ivey
Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician serving as the 54th and incumbent governor of Alabama since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat, Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38th ...
----2nd female Governor of Alabama
Deborah Edwards Barnhart------CEO, Space and Rocket Center
Cynthia Tucker Haynes-------Journalist; 1st African-American editor of Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cathy Sloss Jones------Real estate executive
2016
Jack Hawkins, Jr.-------Chancellor of Troy University
Claude Nielsen--------CEO, Coca-Cola
2015
Richard Arrington
Richard Arrington Jr. (born October 19, 1934 in Livingston, Alabama) was the first Black mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama (U.S.), serving 20 years, from 1979 to 1999. He replaced David Vann and, upon retiring after five terms in offi ...
----1st African-American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Raymond Harbert------Investment firm chairman
Vincent "Bo" Jackson, Jr.------Sports legend (NFL/MLB)
Charles Krulak
Charles Chandler Krulak (born March 4, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999. He is the son of Lieutenant General Victor H. "Brut ...
-----USMC general/business executive
Caroline Novak------Chairman of A+ Education Partnership
Randy Owen
Randy Yeuell Owen (born December 13, 1949) is an American country music artist. He is best known for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band that saw tremendous mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alabama became ...
------Founding member of country music group ALABAMA
2014
Judy Bonner----1st female president of the University of Alabama
Tim Cook
Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs ...
----businessman
John Croyle------businessman/football player
Jim Hudson, Jr.-------businessman
Margaret Porter-------Mayor of Mountain Brook, Alabama
Nick Saban
Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. (; born October 31, 1951) is an American football coach who has been the head football coach at the University of Alabama since 2007. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins ...
-------head football coach, University of Alabama
Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States Attorney General from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States ...
--------U.S. Senator from Alabama, U.S. Attorney General
Edgar Weldon---------businessman
2013
Johnny Johns----businessman
Fournier J. "Boots" Gale III ----lawyer
Seth Hammett----businessman, college president, Alabama Speaker of the House
2012
Ralph Cook----lawyer
Jay Gogue------president of University of Auburn
Alice Lee-------sister of author Harper Lee; oldest practicing attorney in Alabama
Tommy Lowder------real estate
Beverly Phifer Wingard------business executive
James Stephens------business executive
2011
Robert Bentley------Governor of Alabama
Charles Anderson-----media executive, Books-A-Million
David Cooper----maritime business executive
John Denson II---lawyer
J.M. Jenkins IV----business executive
Barbara Larson----1st executive director of Leadership Alabama
John Lewis-----U.S. Representative, Georgia; civil rights advocate
Robert Witt-----president of University of Alabama
2010
John Buchanan------U.S. Rep., Alabama's 6th District
Elbert Drummond-----business executive
Carol Garrison-------president, University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB)
2009
Angus Cooper II------maritime business executive
Donald James------business executive
James Dean Martin-----U.S. Rep., Alabama's 7th District
Charles McCrary------chairman of Alabama Power
Frank Stitt--------renowned chef and cookbook author
2008
Vaughan Morrissette------civic leader/volunteerism advocate
William E. Smith, Jr.--------business executive
Odessa Woolfolk-------founder of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
2007
Hank Aaron------sports legend (MLB); broke Babe Ruth's career homerun record
Leah Rawls Atkins-------educator/historian
Mike Goodrich------business executive
James Harrison, Jr.------pharmacist, founder and CEO of Harco, Inc. Drug Stores
2006
Regina Benjamin--------physician/Surgeon General of the United States
Miller Gorrie-------business executive
Bill Ireland-------business executive
Edwin Bridges-------director of Department of Archives and History
Wayne Flynt--------historian
2005
Fred Gray-------civil right attorney and legislator
Ted C. Kennedy------business executive
Richard Shelby------U.S. Senator from Alabama
Gail Trechsel------art museum director
2004
Bill Cabanis------U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Catherine Randall------educator
Hall Thompson------business executive/golf cart developer
Cameron Vowell------philanthropist
William Warren, Jr.------CEO, Children's of Alabama Hospital
2003
Bob Riley-----Governor of Alabama
Don Logan------business executive
Malcolm Portera-----education executive
Van Richey-------business executive
Kathryn Tucker Windham----author known for Jeffrey stories
2002
James Head------business executive/equal rights advocate
John Godbold------Federal judge, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
George Murray-----civil rights advocate/Episcopal bishop/"Call To Unity"
Condoleezza Rice-----U.S. National Security Advisor/U.S. Secretary of State
Cordell Wynn------president of Stillman College
2001
Ann Reynolds-------president of UAB
Harper Lee---author of "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Sidney McDonald-----educator/legislator/business executive
Marvin Engel-----business executive
Thomas Meredith------education executive
2000
John McMahon, Jr.------business executive
William Muse-----president of Auburn
Sandral Hullett-----medical executive
Rosa Parks-----civil rights pioneer
1999
J. Mason Davis, Jr.------civil rights attorney
Drayton Nabers, Jr.-------insurance executive
Sabert Oglesby, Jr.-------pioneer in air pollution control
Don Siegleman-----Governor of Alabama
1998
Charles LeMaistre-------physician, chairman of M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute
Stanley Mackin-------bank executive
Lee Styslinger, Jr.-----business executive
Robert Weil-------business executive
1997
James Clark------mayor of Eufaula, Alabama/state legislator
Emory Folmar-----mayor of Montgomery, Alabama
Robert Luckie, Jr.-----advertising executive
Benjamin Russell-----timber executive
Herb Sklenar-----business executive
Larry Striplin------coach/athletic director, Belmont University
1996
Ann Bedsole----1st Republican female in Alabama House/1st female state senator
Thomas Bradford, Jr.------business executive
Frank Bromberg, Jr.------business executive
Alston Callahan-----pioneer in reconstructive eye surgery
Thomas Corts-----president of Samford University
Edward Friend III-----lawyer
William Spencer III------business executive
1995
Philip Austin-------education executive
Elton B. Stephens------business executive
E.O. Wilson--------world renowned scientist in field of ecology
1994
No inductees
1993
David Bronner------CEO, Retirement System of Alabama
Tom Carruthers-----lawyer
James E. Folsom, Jr.-------Governor of Alabama
Elmer Harris-----CEO, Alabama Power
Earl Sayers------president, University of Alabama
1992
No inductees
1991
Harry Ayers-------Publisher, Anniston Star
Basil Hirschowitz------scientist, developed optical fiber for flexible endoscope
Barrett Shelton, Jr.-------newspaper executive
Bill Edmonds-----civil engineer, business executive
Frank Moody-----CEO, Alabama Power
Margaret Tutwiler-------noted U.S. State Department official
1990
Max Cooper----noted immunologist
Willard Hurley-----bank executive
Crawford Johnson III----CEO, Coca-Cola
James E. Martin----president of Auburn
Joseph Moquin-----business executive
1989
Houston Brice, Jr.-----business executive
Garry Drummond----business executive
Daniel McCall, Jr.-----Alabama State Supreme Court Justice
Holt Rast------business executive/state legislator
1988
Aaron Aronov------real estate developer
Carl Bailey-----CEO, South Central Bell
Eugene Gwaltney----business executive
Olin King-----business executive
Yetta Samford, Jr.------lawyer
James Wilson, Jr.----business executive
1987
Thomas Bartlett----educator, president of American University in Cairo
Claude Bennett----medical scientist/educator
Edward Friend, Jr.----corporate/real estate attorney
Guy Hunt------Governor of Alabama
Joseph Lanier, Jr.----business executive
James Lee, Jr.----business executive/CEO, Buffalo Rock
Ernest Williams----paper industry executive
1986
* Tom Bevill (1921-2005)---U.S. Representative (4th & 7th districts) of Alabama (1967-1997)
* Dr. Ira Lee Myers (1924-2008)---Alabama State Health Officer (1963-1986)
* Louis J. Willie, Jr. (1923-2007)---Insurance executive
* Wallace Davis Malone, Jr. (1936- )----CEO SouthTrust Bank
* Thomas Edward Rast (1920-2003)----Real estate executive
1985
* Joseph Sam Bruno (1912-1996)----Founder of Bruno's grocery store chain
* Emil Carl Hess (1918-?)----owner of the Parisian apparel chain
* William Jackson Edwards, III (1928- )---U.S. Representative (1st District), from AL (1965-1985); 1st Republican from this district since Reconstruction Era.
* William David Sellers, Jr. (1913-1990)---Business executive & philanthropist
1984
* Wallace R. Bunn (1923-2011)---CEO of Bellsouth Corp.
* Joseph McConnell Farley (1927-2010)---Birmingham attorney, president of Alabama Power (1969-1989)
* John Witherspoon Woods (1931-2002)---Banking executive
* Oliver H. Delchamps, Jr. (1933- )---Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; heir to Delchamps grocery store chain
* Henry Calvin Goodrich (1920-2011)----Business executive; pres. of Southern Natural Resources
1983
* Charles Albert Boswell (1916-1995)---insurance executive, blind professional golfer, AL Commissioner of Revenue
* Harry B. Brock, Jr. (1925-2015)-----Financier and philanthropist
* John Key McKinley (1920-2014)---CEO of TEXACO
* Frank Arthur Plummer (1912-1987)---Banking executive.
* Frank Brooks , Jr. (1904-1992)---Banking executive
* Thomas E. Bradford, Sr. (1909-2002)----Chairman, Bradford Gipin Food Brokers
* Joseph Lamar Lanier (1906-2000)----Noted textile manufacturer
* William Flynt Nichols (1918-1988)---U.S. Representative, 3rd and 4th Districts (1967-1988)
* Joab Langston Thomas (1933-2014)---President of the University of Alabama
1982
* Young Jacob Boozer, Jr. (1912-2000)----Business leader and college baseball star (UA)
* Kenneth R. Daniel (1913-2008)--Business and railroad executive (inducted also in 2009)
* Glenn Ireland II (1926-2015)---Business executive. Alabama Commissioner of Mental Health.
* Prime Francis Osborn III
* Howard Earle Skipper (1915-2006)---Noted American oncologist
* Dr. Buris Raye Boshell (1926- )---Noted physician in the area of diabetes research.
* Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr (1924-2014)---U.S. Senator, Alabama (1981-1987); the first Republican to be popularly elected in Alabama since the direct election of U.S. Senators began in 1914, the first Republican senator since Reconstruction to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate, and the first Catholic to be elected to statewide office in Alabama.
* Kirkman O'Neal (1890-1988)---founder of Oneal Steel.
* Dr. James Allen Pittman, Jr. (1927-2014)---dean of UAB Medical School.
* Mary George Jordan Waite (1917-1990)---president of Farmer's and Merchant's Bank of Cherokee County.
1981
* Travis Massey Bedsole (1913-2011)---Mobile, AL attorney for 60 yrs
* Charles Trueheart Clayton (1911-?)---President, Liberty National Insurance
* William Houston Blount (1922-2011)----Philanthropist, president of Vulcan Materials
* Conrad Murphree Fowler (1918-2007)----Probate Judge of Shelby County, special prosecutor for "Phenix City Cleanup" (1954)
1980
*Dr. John M. Chenault (1914-1992)----President of Decatur General Hospital
* William Hulsey (1901-1985)---Investment banker and art collector
* Kench Lott, Jr. (1920-1995)----President of Merchant's Bank (Mobile, AL)
* Frank Samford, Jr. (1921-1986)----President of Liberty National Insurance
* Arthur Shores (1904-1996)----American civil rights attorney; Alabama'a "Drum Major For Justice".
* John Harbert III (1921-1995)---Founder and CEO of Harbert Construction
* Dr. Thomas N. James (1925-2010)---World renowned cardiologist
* James Mills (1900-1998)----Editor, Birmingham Post (1950-1967)
1979
* Robert Bamberg, Jr., Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries (1959-1962)
* Neal Berte, president of
Birmingham–Southern College
Birmingham–Southern College (BSC) is a private college in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1856, the college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). More than 1 ...
(1976-2004)
*
Walter Gewin (1908-1981), federal judge (1961-1981)
* James Hardin (1917-1998), director of State Department of Finance; director of State Department of Mental Health
*
Joseph McCorquodale, Jr., state representative (1959-1983); state Speaker of the House (1971-1983)
*
Forrest H. James, governor of Alabama (1979-1983, 1995-1999)
*
Frank M. Johnson, Jr. (1918-1999), U.S. federal judge (1955-1999) responsible for several landmark civil rights decisions
* Charles P. Rather, president of
Southern Natural Gas
Southern Natural Gas Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a natural gas pipeline company that was founded in 1928 and is currently a division of Kinder Morgan. The company was a division of Birmingham-based Sonat Inc. until 1999 when ...
*
Fran McKee (1926-2002), 1st female to hold rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy
* William Rushton III, insurance executive; CEO of
Protective Life Corp.(1969-1992)
1978
* William D. Arant, Birmingham attorney
* Glen Brock, president of
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio was a Class I railroad in the central United States whose primary routes extended from Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as Chicago, Illinois.
From its two ...
* Alfred Delchamps, founder of
Delchamps supermarket chain
* George LeMaistre (1911-1994), attorney/bank executive; chairman,
FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is one of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions, the other being the National Credit Union Administration, which regulates and insures credi ...
(1977-1978)
*
Seybourn Lynne (1907-2000), federal judge who decided
Vivian Malone and
James Hood
James Alexander Hood (November 10, 1942 – January 17, 2013) was one of the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and was made famous when Alabama Governor George Wallace attempted to block him and fellow ...
civil rights cases
* John F. McRae, Mobile, community leader; responsible for helping to bring
Senior Bowl
The Senior Bowl is a post-season college football all-star game played annually in late January or early February in Mobile, Alabama, which showcases the best NFL Draft prospects of those players who have completed their college eligibility. Pr ...
to Ladd Stadium in Mobile
*
Pelham J. Merrill (1907-1991), Associate Justice, Alabama Supreme Court (1953-1976)
*
Bernard Monaghan (1916-1987), U.S. General Counsel of the Army (1952-1953) and CEO, Vulcan Materials (1959-1981)
*
Armistead Selden, Jr. (1921-1985), U.S. Congressman, (1953-1969); U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (1974-1979)
*
Fred Sington
Frederic William Sington (February 24, 1910 – August 20, 1998) was an American football and baseball player. Sington was also an accomplished saxophonist. Sington was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and was Jewish.
He attended Phillips High Sch ...
(1910-1988), football player, Crimson Tide (1929-1930), professional baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers/Washington Senators)
1977
* Ralph W. Adams (1915-1998), educator; president of
Troy University
* John G. Galbraith (1914-1996), neurosurgeon
* John W. Bloomer, newspaper executive (''
Columbus Ledger''); won Pulitzer Prize for coverage of clean-up of Phenix City
* Thomas B. Hill, Jr., Montgomery attorney
* John A. Cadell, attorney
*
Robert E. Jones (1912-1997), U.S. Congressman, (1947-1963, 1965-1977)
* Walter W. Kennedy, Birmingham bank executive
* Emory Cunningham (1921-2000), publisher of ''
The Progressive Farmer
''Progressive Farmer'' is an agricultural magazine, published 14 times a year by DTN. The magazine is based in Birmingham, Alabama.
History
Founded in Winston, North Carolina, in 1886 by North Carolina native Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837–1 ...
''
*
Carl Elliott (1913-1999), U.S. Congressman (1949-1965)
* Walter Frommeyer (196-1979), physician
1976
* Ehney Camp Jr. (1907-2009),
Liberty National Life Insurance Company executive and banking expert
*
R. Hugh Daniel (1906-1983), founder and CEO of Daniel International Org.
* John A. Hand, leader of the Alabama banking community for over 40 years
* Ruth Hanson (1900-1983), pioneer in the fight against diabetes in Alabama
* George Mattison, Jr., Birmingham industrialist and philanthropist
* Robert Parker, pediatrician
*
Nell Rankin (1924-2005), operatic mezzo-soprano with Metropolitan Opera (1951-1976)
* Barrett Shelton (1903-1984), editor of ''
The Decatur Daily
''The Decatur Daily'' is a daily (five days a week) newspaper serving Decatur, Alabama and the Tennessee Valley in the North Alabama area of the United States. As of September 30, 2006, it had an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday ...
'' (1924-1984)
* William M. Spencer, attorney; one of the founders of the
Birmingham Museum of Art
The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. It has one of the most extensive collections of artwork in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts repres ...
* Jack W. Warner, president of Gulf States Paper; noted art collector
1975
*
Rucker Agee
*
James Browning Allen, U.S. Senator and 17th and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
*
Joseph Linyer Bedsole
*
Ben Screws Gilmer
*
Milo Barrett Howard, Jr.
*
Charles A. McCallum, Jr.
*
Earl Mason McGowin
*
George Mosley Murray, bishop who worked for civil rights and racial integration
*
Julia Walker Ruseell
*
William James Rushton
William is a male given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norm ...
1974
*
Clinton Jackson Coley
*
Donald Comer, Jr.
*
Luther H. Foster Jr.
*
Howell Thomas Heflin, US Senator and Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
*
Samuel Richardson Hill
*
John Webster Kirklin, surgeon
*
Thomas Seay Lawson
*
J. Craig Smith
''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...
*
Hudson Strode
Hudson Strode (October 31, 1892 – September 22, 1976) was an author and professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Alabama from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. His creative writing classes ...
, author and university professor
*
Luther Leonidas Terry, 9th US Surgeon General
1973
*
Emmet Bryan Carmichael, biochemist
*
Paul Grist, YMCA worker
*
Forrest David Mathews, university president and 11th US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
*
Thomas Dameron Russell, businessman
*
Frank Edward Spain, businessman
*
Mervyn Hayden Sterne, businessman
*
Ernest Stone, university president and Alabama Superintendent of Education
*
Joseph F. Volker, university president
*
Leslie Stephen Wright Leslie Stephen Wright (1913–1997) was an American educator. He served as the President of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama from 1958 to 1983.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1913. He received a B.A. in 1936 an ...
, university president
1972
*
Tinsley R. Harrison
Tinsley Randolph Harrison (March 18, 1900 – August 4, 1978) was an American physician and editor of the first five editions of '' Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine''. Harrison specialized in cardiology and the pathophysiology of he ...
, physician and author
*
Ralph Jordan
Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf").
The most common forms ...
, football coach
*
John C. Persons, US Army General and businessman
*
Harry M. Philpott, university president
*
Albert M. Rains, United States Representative
1971
No induction held.
1970
No induction held.
1969
*
Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General
*
Albert Preston Brewer, 47th governor of Alabama
*
Paul W. Bryant, football coach
*
James E. Folsom, 42nd governor of Alabama
*
A.G. Gaston, businessman who worked for civil rights and racial integration
*
Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) ...
, United States Senator
*
Thomas H. Moorer, US Navy Admiral and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
*
John Patterson, 44th governor of Alabama
*
Frank A. Rose, university president
*
Frank P. Samford, businessman and civic leader
*
Bertha Smolian, philanthropist and civic leader
*
John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946 and the United St ...
, United States Senator
*
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( , ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the develop ...
, space scientist
*
George C. Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and ...
, 45th, 48th, and 50th governor of Alabama
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