Steve Flowers on Big Jim Folsom Part Seven
Those of us who have grown up in and around Alabama politics have coined a descriptive term for a person who is totally obsessed with seeking political office. The term I like to use to describe this...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Big Jim Folsom Part Nine
When Big Jim was governor in the 1940s, there no interstate highways, a lot of roads weren't even paved. It took longer to get around the state by car than it does now...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Big Jim Folsom Part Ten
Big Jim always knew he wanted to go into politics and he got started in his twenties...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Big Jim Folsom Part Eleven
The 1962 Alabama governor's race featured the modern media television for the first time. Big Jim Folsom had won his two previous races campaigning from the back of a flatbed truck making speeches...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Jim Martin Part One
Martin left Washington and decided Alabama at least needed a two-party system and he would be the sacrificial lamb to take on Lister Hill...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Jim Martin Part Two
In 1964, the so-called solid South was Democratic - more out of tradition and protocol than policy. Both national parties took the South and Alabama for granted in national elections...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on the Fourth Congressional District
The traditional fourth congressional district, which stretches across north Alabama just below the Tennessee Valley, has produced some of Alabama's most legendary and powerful congressmen...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Jim Allen
As one of America's most conservative states, we in Alabama have a history of electing very conservative senators. A conservative that served 10 years in the senate from 1968 to 1978 was the great Jim...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Shorty Price
Alabama has had it's share of run-for-the-fun-of-it candidates. Our most colorful of all these perennial candidates was Shorty Price...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on Jim Main
Current Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jim Main tells a great story that involves Governor John Patterson and dates back to his experiences as a boy when he was a senate page...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part One
George Wallace was born to a farming family like most people in that generation, in 1919. The young Wallace was born in Barbour County, the home of Alabama governors. He was destined to be the king of...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Two
When George Wallace graduated from law school in 1942, the only job he could find was driving a dump truck for the state highway department in Tuscaloosa...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Three
The words "political animal" were coined with George Wallace in mind; when you couple his desire with a unique, God-given ability to campaign, you have the ingredients for the ultimate political animal...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Four
George Wallace was a legislative genius and master who used his skills to move most of his programs through the legislature. He knew the art of wooing and stacking legislators, and he had them eating...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Five
Wallace went to the historic, black Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery and asked for forgiveness from the African American community of Alabama. His conversion and contrition appeared sincere;...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Six
There's never been a man or woman born that loved politics more than George Wallace. He was born to be in politics; he lived it and breathed it...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Seven
In most states, the ultimate political prize has been to go to the United States Senate and die there. Being governor of a state, or most states around the country, is generally considered a prelude or...
View ArticleSteve Flowers on George Wallace Part Eight
Our legendary and iconic Governor George Wallace was Governor four times and his wife was governor once; Governor Wallace and Steve Flowers were close. Here's a story about their relationship...
View ArticleSteve Flowers' Year-End Tradition
At the close of each year, my tradition is to acknowledge the passing away of significant political leaders from the political stage in our beloved state. We lost some icons this year...
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