List of people from Montgomery, Alabama
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The city of Montgomery, the capital and second-largest city of Alabama, has been the birthplace and home of several notable individuals.
Arts & Entertainment
Music
Civil rights
Name |
Notability |
References |
Ralph David Abernathy |
Baptist minister, Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader |
[24] |
Inez Baskin |
Journalist & activist |
[25] |
Johnnie Carr |
Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery Bus Boycott co-organizer |
[26] |
Morris Dees |
Southern Poverty Law Center founder |
[27] |
Mahala Ashley Dickerson |
First black female attorney in Alabama |
[28] |
Fred Gray |
Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement Association |
[29] |
Vernon Johns |
Minister, mentor to early civil rights leaders |
[30] |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Minister, founded the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while in Montgomery, led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Selma to Montgomery march |
[31] |
Martin Luther King III |
Advocate, SCLC president |
[32] |
Yolanda King |
Advocate & actress |
[33] |
E. D. Nixon |
Attorney (Browder v. Gayle), local NAACP president, Montgomery Improvement Association founder |
[34] |
Rosa Parks |
Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
[35] |
Literature and journalism
Military
Politics
Name |
Notability |
References |
John Abercrombie |
U.S. Representative (1912–1917), president of the University of Alabama (1902–1911) |
[47] |
Winton M. Blount |
United States Postmaster General (1969–1972) and philanthropist |
[48] |
Bobby Bright |
Mayor (1999–2009), U.S. Representative (2009-) |
[49] |
Charles Waldron Buckley |
U.S. Representative (1868–1873) |
[50] |
Artur Davis |
current U.S. Representative (2003-) |
[51] |
William Louis Dickinson |
U.S. Representative (1965–1993) |
[52] |
Edward C. Elmore |
Confederate States of America treasurer |
[53] |
Benjamin Fitzpatrick |
11th Governor of Alabama (1841–1845); United States Senator (1848-9, 1953-5, 1855–61) and President pro tempore (1857–60) |
[54] |
Emory Folmar |
Mayor (1977–1999) |
[55] |
Jim Folsom, Jr. |
50th Governor of Alabama (1993–1995), current Lieutenant Governor (1987–1993, 2007-) |
[56] |
MacDonald Gallion |
Attorney General of Alabama (1953–63, 1967–71) |
[57] |
Bibb Graves |
38th Governor of Alabama (1927–1931, 1935–1939) |
[58] |
Dixie Bibb Graves |
First female United States Senator from Alabama (1937–1938) |
[59] |
J. Lister Hill |
U.S. Representative (1923–38), U.S. Senator (1938–69), Senate Majority Whip (1941–47), known for the Hill-Burton Act |
[60] |
Perry O. Hooper, Sr. |
Alabama Supreme Court chief justice (1995–2001) |
[61] |
Thomas G. Jones |
28th Governor of Alabama (1890–1894) |
[62] |
Claude R. Kirk, Jr. |
Governor of Florida (1967–1971) |
[63] |
Gordon Persons |
46th Governor of Alabama (1951–1955) |
[64] |
Martha Roby |
Congresswoman from Alabama's 2nd congressional district |
[65] |
Joe M. Rodgers |
Construction executive, United States Ambassador to France |
[66] |
Dorothy Tillman |
Former Chicago Alderman |
[67] |
Steve Windom |
28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (1999–2003) |
[68] |
William Lowndes Yancey |
U.S. Representative (1844–46), Fire-Eater secession advocate, Confederate diplomat & Senator |
[69] |
Science
Sports
Others
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