Emory Folmar
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Emory McCord Folmar was born in Troy, Alabama on June 3, 1930. He was a conservative Republican and the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama from 1977 to 1999. A veteran of the Korean War, he entered politics by winning election to the Montgomery City Council in 1975 and shortly becoming its president. After the resignation of then-mayor Jim Robinson over a police cover-up, Folmar was elevated as president of the City Council to interim mayor and won the subsequent general election. He presided over Montgomery for 22 years until his eventual defeat in 1999 by Democratic candidate Bobby Bright.[1] In 2003 Folmar became the administrator of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. He has also engaged in commercial real estate development and is considered to have much personal wealth - given that his annual salary as mayor was only $1 at his request. [2]
in 1982, he was the Republican Party nominee for Governor of Alabama. He lost the election to former governor George Wallace, in what would be Wallace's last campaign.
