Robert B. Lindsay
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Robert Burns Lindsay | |
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22nd Governor of Alabama | |
In office November 26, 1870 – November 17, 1872 | |
Lieutenant | Edward H. Moren |
Preceded by | William Hugh Smith |
Succeeded by | David P. Lewis |
Personal details | |
Born | Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland | July 4, 1824
Died | February 13, 1902 (aged 77) Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Sarah Miller Winston |
Alma mater | –University of St Andrews |
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Robert Burns Lindsay (July 4, 1824 – February 13, 1902) was a Scots-American politician, elected as the 22nd Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama during Reconstruction, and serving one term from 1870 to 1872.[1]
Early life
[edit]Robert B. Lindsay was born in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on July 4, 1824. He studied at the University of St Andrews before emigrating to the United States in 1844.[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1853 and the Alabama Senate in 1857, 1865, and 1870.[3]
1870 political campaign
[edit]A Democrat, Lindsay was elected governor in 1870, following a year of white terrorism against black people: violence, including murders, and intimidation of black and white Republicans and freedmen supporters. For example, five Republicans, four black and one white, were lynched in Calhoun County; three black people (two who were Republican politicians) were murdered in Greene County, in March and October; the white Republican County Solicitor was murdered there in March; and on October 25, a Republican rally of 2,000 black people was disrupted by a mob of whites, who killed four black people and wounded 54 in the Eutaw riot.[4] Black people were intimidated and stayed home from the polls, with Democratic white voters in Greene County and elsewhere taking the state for Lindsay.[5]
He died in Tuscumbia, Alabama on February 13, 1902.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Alabama : Past Governors Bios". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ^ a b Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. VI. Boston: The Biographical Society. Retrieved May 5, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Robert Burns Lindsay". National Governors Association. September 7, 2018.
- ^ Waldrep, Christopher (2011). Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi. U of Georgia P. pp. 137–38. ISBN 9780820341941.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Alabama
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