Scope and Contents This collection contains news clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, broadsides, and pamphlets. Half of the material concerns William Bismarck Bowling and his interest in Alabama politics, mainly Alabama's prohibition campaign of 1909 and the ratification of the 1901 State Constitution. The other half of the collection concerns George R. Bowling, Sr.'s time as a...

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Consists of research material used by Hugh D. Reagan in his doctoral dissertation, "The Presidential Campaign of 1928 in Alabama," including typescripts of affidavits (1928) accounting campaign contributions and expenditures of political parties in Alabama; and microfilm of correspondence (1928) between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alabama Democrats about the campaign. Includes materials documenting the anti-Catholic campaign against Alfred Smith for president.

Scope and Contents This collection contains eighty-five letters sent to James Thomas "Cotton Tom" Heflin between the years 1932-1938. The bulk of the letters discuss his illness and the Alabama Special Democratic Primary election on January 4, 1938. Other items include Harrington Phillips Heflin’s certificate of law from 1887, three photographs, a U.S government...