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History
The Office
of the Secretary of State existed even before Alabama became a state. The first
secretary of state, Henry Hitchcock (1818-19) served for the Alabama Territory.
The secretary of state served a two-year term from the time Alabama became a
state in 1819 until the Constitution of 1901 set the term at four years. Up
until 1868, the secretary of state was elected by the legislature, but since
that time has been selected by popular vote.
Below is a complete listing of the men and women who served as Alabama's
secretary of state:
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Secretary
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Year |
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Secretary
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Year |
| Henry Hitchcock |
1818-1819 |
|
Frank N. Julian |
1907-1910 |
| Thomas A. Rodgers |
1819-1821 |
|
Cyrus B. Brown |
1910-1915 |
| James J. Pleasants |
1821-1824 |
|
John Purifoy |
1915-1919 |
| James I. Thornton |
1824-1834 |
|
William Peyton Cobb |
1919-1923 |
| Edmund A. Webster |
1834-1836 |
|
Sidney Herbert Blan |
1923-1927 |
| Thomas B. Tunstall |
1836-1840 |
|
John Marvin Brandon |
1927-1931 |
| William Garrett |
1840-1852 |
|
Pete Bryant Jarman, Jr. |
1931-1935 |
| Vincent M. Benham |
1852-1856 |
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David Howell Turner |
1935-1939 |
| James H. Weaver |
1856-1860 |
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John Marvin Brandon |
1939-1943 |
| Patrick H. Brittan |
1860-1865 |
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David Howell Turner |
1943-1944 |
| Albert S. Elmore |
1865-1866 |
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Sibyl Pool |
1944-1951 |
| David L. Dalton |
1866-1867 |
|
Agnes Baggett |
1951-1955 |
| Micah Taul |
1867-1868 |
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Mary Texas Hurt Garner |
1955-1959 |
| Charles A. Miller |
1868-1870 |
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Bettye Frink |
1959-1963 |
| Jabez J. Parker |
1870-1872 |
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Agnes Baggett |
1963-1967 |
| Patrick Ragland |
1872-1873 |
|
Mabel Sanders Amos |
1967-1975 |
| Neander H. Rice |
1873-1874 |
|
Agnes Baggett |
1975-1979 |
| Rufus K. Boyd |
1874-1878 |
|
Don Siegelman |
1979-1987 |
| William W. Screws |
1878-1882 |
|
Glen Browder |
1987-1989 |
| Ellis Phelan |
1882-1885 |
|
Fred Crawford |
1989-1989 |
| Charles C. Langdon |
1885-1890 |
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Perry A. Hand |
1989-1991 |
| Joseph D. Barron |
1890-1894 |
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Billy Joe Camp |
1991-1993 |
| James K. Jackson |
1894-1898 |
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Jim Bennett |
1993-2003 |
| Robert P. McDavid |
1898-1903 |
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Nancy L. Worley |
2003-2007 |
| J. Thomas Heflin |
1903-1904 |
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Beth Chapman |
2007- |
| Edmund R. McDavid |
1904-1907 |
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