Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Judge Harry Toulmin: Czar of the Tombigbee District
2. Samuel Dale: Frontiersman and Hero of the Canoe Fight
3. General John Coffee: Military Hero, Land Surveyor, and Founder of Florence, Alabama
4. LeRoy Pope: Broad River Pioneer and “Father of Huntsville”
5. William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb: Alabama’s First Two Governors
6. John Williams Walker: President of the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and First US Senator from Alabama
7. Judge Charles Tait: “Patron of Alabama” and Alabama’s First Federal Judge
8. Clement Comer Clay: Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1819, Key Drafter of the Alabama Constitution, First Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, US Senator, and the Seventh Alabama Governor
9. Henry Hitchcock: Secretary of the Alabama Territory, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1819, Alabama’s First Attorney General, and Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
10. Israel Pickens: Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1819 and Alabama’s Third Governor
11. Reuben Saffold II: Soldier in the Creek Indian War, Member of the Territorial Legislature, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1819, and Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
12. Gabriel Moore: First Speaker of the House of Alabama’s Territorial Legislature, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1819, US Senator, US Congressman, and Alabama’s Fifth Governor
13. William Rufus King: US Senator and Thirteenth Vice President of the United States
Conclusion
Appendix: Delegates to the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1819
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
