Michael A. Figures (October 13, 1947 – September 13, 1996) was an American politician who served in the

Alabama Senate The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, with each district conta ...

from the 33rd district from 1978 until his death in 1996. He served as the body's president

pro tempore ''Pro tempore'' (), abbreviated ''pro tem'' or ''p.t.'', is a Latin phrase which best translates to "for the time being" in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a ''locum tenens'' (placeholder) in the absence of ...

. His wife

Vivian Davis Figures Vivian Davis Figures (born January 24, 1957) is an American politician who is a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 33rd District in Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County since she was elect ...

succeeded him in office after his death. He was involved in the investigation of the

murder of Michael Donald The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, on March 21, 1981, was one of the last reported lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a 19-year-old African-American, and hung his b ...

, who was lynched by white supremacists in 1981.

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