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G- 1. Board of Trustees, 1920 G‐ 1. Board of Trustees, 1920 ‐ Present *Constituted membership of Board of Trustees in 1920. **District changes were made in 1933‐34. Name District Years of Service Thomas E. Kilby Governor * ‐ 1923 Spright Dowell State Supt. of Educ. * ‐1920 W. H. Oates First * ‐1936 W. F. Feagin Second * ‐1923 C. S. McDowell, Jr. Third * ‐1930 T. D. Samford Third * ‐1947 Hugh D. Merrill Fourth * ‐1943 Harry Herzfeld Fifth * ‐1933 J. A. Rogers Sixth * ‐1936 Oliver R. Hood Seventh * ‐1930 C. M. Sherrod Eighth * ‐1926 W. K. Terry Ninth * ‐1923 Paul S. Haley Tenth/Seventh** * ‐1968 John W. Abercrombie State Supt. of Educ. 1920‐1927 William W. Brandon Governor 1923‐1927 Charles Henderson Second 1923‐1935 Victor H. Hanson Ninth 1924‐1945 C. W. Ashcraft Eighth 1926‐1935 1927‐1931/1935‐ Bibb Graves Governor 1939 R. E. Tidwell State Supt. of Educ. 1927‐1929 A. F. Harmon State Supt. of Educ. 1929‐1935 John J. Flowers Third 1930‐1931 B. M. Miller Governor 1931‐1935 H. H. Connor Third 1931‐1939 C. S. Culver Seventh/Fifth** 1931‐1943 J. A. Keller State Supt. of Educ. 1935‐1937 George Blue Second 1935‐1944 Francis W. Hare First 1936‐1951 Robert K. Greene Sixth 1936‐1947 A. H. Collins State Supt. of Educ. 1937‐1943 Frank M. Dixon Governor 1939‐1943 Edward A. O'Neal Eighth 1935‐1947 John V. Denson Third 1939‐1940 S. L. Toomer Third 1941‐1951 Chauncey Sparks Governor 1943‐1947 E. B. Norton State Supt. of Educ. 1942‐1946 W. B. Bowling Fifth 1943‐1946 Walker Reynolds Fourth 1943‐1956 Earl M. McGowin Second 1946‐1947 Frank P. Samford Ninth 1946‐1973 1946‐1951/1955‐ A. R. Meadows State Supt. of Educ. 1959/1963‐1967 1947‐1951/1955‐ James E. Folsom Governor 1959 Joe M. Davis Fifth 1947‐1956 V. S. Summerlin Second 1947‐1959 1947‐1950/1963‐ Roberts H. Brown Third 1971 Redus Collier Eighth 1947‐1972 Raymond E. Spann Third 1950‐1951 Gordon Persons Governor 1951‐1955 W. J. Terry State Supt. of Educ. 1951‐1955 G. H. Wright, Sr. Third 1951‐1963 Jimmy Hitchcock Third 1951‐1959 E. A. Roberts First 1951‐1963 R. C. "Red" Bamberg Sixth 1956‐1994 M. H. Moses Fifth 1956‐1968 E. L. Wynn Fourth 1956‐1968 John Patterson Governor 1959‐1963 Frank R. Stewart State Supt. of Educ. 1959‐1961 John W. Overton Second 1959‐1971 W. J. Forrester Third 1959‐1963 W. A. LeCroy State Supt. of Educ. 1961‐1963 1963‐1967/1971‐ George C. Wallace Governor 1979/1983‐1987 John W. Pace, III First 1963‐1985 Sim A. Thomas Third 1963‐1971 Lurleen B. Wallace Governor 1967‐1968 Ernest L. Stone State Supt. of Educ. 1967‐1971 Walston Hester Seventh 1968‐1979 Albert Brewer Governor 1968‐1971 Thomas E. Martin Fifth 1968‐1969 William Nichols Fourth 1968‐1988 Jesse Culp Fifth 1969‐1975 LeRoy Brown State Supt. of Educ. 1971‐1975 Henry B. Steagall, II Third 1971‐1987 Charles M. Smith, III Second 1971‐1983 Jack B. Tatum Third 1972‐1976 Robert Harris Eighth 1973‐1983 Frank P. Samford, Jr. Ninth 1973‐1984 Wayne Teague State Supt. of Educ. 1975‐1995 Sue Fincher Fifth 1975‐1979 J. Ralph Jordan Third 1976‐1980 1979‐1983/1995‐ Fob James Governor 1999 Michael B. McCartney Fifth 1979‐1993 Morris W. Savage Seventh 1979‐1991 John V. Denson Third 1980‐1999 James T. Tatum, Jr. Eighth 1983‐1999 Robert E. Lowder Second 1983‐ Emory O. Ninth 1984‐1999 Cunningham Bessie Mae Holloway First 1985‐2000 Guy Hunt Governor 1987‐1993 W. James Samford, Jr. Third 1987‐2003 Jack B. Venable Fourth 1989‐2003 Charles G. Glover Seventh 1991‐2003 Lowell Barron Fifth 1993‐2003 James E. Folsom, Jr. Governor 1993‐1995 Acting State Supt. Thomas E. Ingram, Jr. 1995‐1995 of Educ. Edward R. Richardson State Supt. of Educ. 1995‐2004 Paul J. Spina, Jr. Sixth 1995‐1996/1997‐ Phil Richardson Second 1996‐1997 Albert C. McDonald Eighth 1996‐1997 Don Siegelman Governor 1999‐2002 Golda McDaniel At Large 2001‐2005 James W. Rane Third 1999‐ John G. Blackwell Eighth 1999‐ John C.H. Miller, Jr. First 2000‐2009 Byron P. Franklin, Sr. Ninth 1999‐ Earlon C. McWhorter At Large 2001‐2009 Bob Riley Governor 2002‐ Charles E. Ball Fifth 2004‐2006 Dwight. L. Carlisle Fourth 2004‐ Sarah B. Newton Seventh 2004‐ Virginia Thompson Third‐Lee Co. 2004‐ Charles D. McCrary At Large 2004‐ Samuel L. Ginn At Large 2005‐ D. Gaines Lanier Fifth 2007‐ Raymond J. Harbert At Large 2009‐ .
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