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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]
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 | July 4, 1824 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
| 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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Early life
editRobert 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
editA 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
editReferences
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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