Chauncey Sparks
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George Chauncey Sparks, known as Chauncey Sparks, was an attorney and Democratic American politician who served as the 41st governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947. He improved the state education of wh
Official portrait, 1943
Gordon Persons
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Seth Gordon Persons was an American Democratic politician who was the 43rd governor of Alabama from 1951 to 1955. A relative moderate, Persons provided reforms to the state prison system, and limited
Chauncey Sparks
…governor's seat in 1947, replaced by Democrat Jim Folsom. He attempted to return to office in the 1950 election, but lost in the primary to Democrat Gordon Persons. Sparks devoted the rest of his life to his private law practice in Eufaula. A lifelong bachelor, he died there on November 6, 1968. The Gov. Chauncey…
Official campaign portrait, 1950