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:
|
Secretary |
Year |
|
Secretary |
Year |
|
Henry Hitchcock |
1818-1819 |
|
Cyrus B. Brown |
1910-1915 |
|
Thomas A. Rodgers |
1819-1821 |
|
John Purifoy |
1915-1919 |
|
James J. Pleasants |
1821-1824 |
|
William Peyton Cobb |
1919-1923 |
|
James I. Thornton |
1824-1834 |
|
Sidney Herbert Blan |
1923-1927 |
|
Edmund A. Webster |
1834-1836 |
|
John Marvin Brandon |
1927-1931 |
|
Thomas B. Tunstall |
1836-1840 |
|
Pete Bryant Jarman, Jr. |
1931-1935 |
|
William Garrett |
1840-1852 |
|
David Howell Turner |
1935-1939 |
|
Vincent M. Benham |
1852-1856 |
|
John Marvin Brandon |
1939-1943 |
|
James H. Weaver |
1856-1860 |
|
David Howell Turner |
1943-1944 |
|
Patrick H. Brittan |
1860-1865 |
|
Sibyl Pool |
1944-1951 |
|
William Garrett |
July - September 1865 |
|
Agnes Baggett |
1951-1955 |
|
Albert S. Elmore |
1865-1866 |
|
Mary Texas Hurt Garner |
1955-1959 |
|
David L. Dalton |
1866-1867 |
|
Bettye Frink |
1959-1963 |
|
Micah Taul |
1867-1868 |
|
Agnes Baggett |
1963-1967 |
|
Charles A. Miller |
1868-1870 |
|
Mabel Sanders Amos |
1967-1975 |
|
Jabez J. Parker |
1870-1872 |
|
Agnes Baggett |
1975-1979 |
|
Patrick Ragland |
1872-1873 |
|
Don Siegelman |
1979-1987 |
|
Neander H. Rice |
1873-1874 |
|
Glen Browder |
1987-1989 |
|
Rufus K. Boyd |
1874-1878 |
|
Fred Crawford |
1989-1989 |
|
William W. Screws |
1878-1882 |
|
Perry A. Hand |
1989-1991 |
|
Ellis Phelan |
1882-1885 |
|
Billy Joe Camp |
1991-1993 |
|
Charles C. Langdon |
1885-1890 |
|
Jim Bennett |
1993-2003 |
|
Joseph D. Barron |
1890-1894 |
|
Nancy L. Worley |
2003-2007 |
|
James K. Jackson |
1894-1898 |
|
Beth Chapman |
2007-2013 |
|
Robert P. McDavid |
1898-1903 |
|
Jim Bennett |
2013-2015 |
|
J. Thomas Heflin |
1903-1904 |
|
John H. Merrill |
2015-2022 |
|
Edmund R. McDavid |
1904-1907 |
|
Wes Allen |
2023- |
|
Frank N. Julian |
1907-1910 |
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