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    movement. Edmund Pettus was born in 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama. He was the youngest of nine children of John Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston, a brother...
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    The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named...
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    Jones Pettus was born on October 9, 1813, in Wilson County, Tennessee, to John Pettus, a farmer, and his wife Alice Taylor (née Winston) Pettus. He was...
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  • Anthony Winston (1812–1871) of Alabama and John Jones Pettus (1813–1867) of Mississippi. Another grandson, CSA General Edmund Winston Pettus later represented...
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    Alabama during the Reconstruction era. Morgan and fellow Klan member Edmund W. Pettus became the ringleaders of white supremacy in Alabama and did more than...
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  • it Graves and memorials to four CSA generals: John Tyler Morgan, Edmund Winston Pettus, Nathaniel H. R. Dawson, William J. Hardee and Confederate Navy...
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    Samuels Pennybacker Democratic Virginia Mar. 3, 1837 Jan. 11, 1847 Edmund Winston Pettus Democratic Alabama Mar. 3, 1897 Jul. 26, 1907 Israel Pickens Democratic...
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    political office again by being elected to complete Senator Edmund Pettus's term after Pettus had died in office in 1907. Johnston was re-elected in 1909...
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    in a special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Charles Winston Thompson. He defeated five other candidates in the election, including...
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    McCraw Harrington J. Hubbard Stone Parsons Anderson Clements Pettus Clark Clements Waller Pettus Tunstall Martin Carmichael Almon Carmichael Merritt Lynne...
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    Buckingham, Albemarle, & Amherst William Cabell Bedford & Pittsylvania Edmund Winston Elizabeth City, Warwick, & York Augustine Moore Westmoreland, Stafford...
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  • Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved June 24, 2014.[permanent dead link‍] "PETTUS, Edmund Winston – Biographical Information". Bioguide.congress.gov. July 27, 1907...
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  • and served until 1876. The Ku Klux Klan in 1877 was led by General Edmund W. Pettus as Grand Dragon of the Realm. Fry, Joseph A. (1992). John Tyler Morgan...
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    Brown Chapel Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Holt Street Baptist Church Edmund Pettus Bridge March on Washington Movement African-American churches attacked...
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  • SS 31 Jonathan Jones CB 15 Marte Mapu FS  5 Jabrill Peppers FS 24 Dell Pettus FS 41 Brenden Schooler SS Special teams 17 Bryce Baringer P 49 Joe Cardona...
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  • 2000 in Selma, Alabama, on the 35th anniversary of the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. His mother Mamie Till-Mobley attended and later wrote in her...
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  • Clemm (1822–1847) John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 23rd Governor of Mississippi, and his first cousin, Permelia Virginia Winston[citation needed] Peter A....
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    a major general on May 16, 1865, to rank from May 10, 1865, by General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Neither appointment was...
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    until after a hearing. Nonetheless, King led marchers on March 9 to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, then held a short prayer session before turning the...
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  • Richard Perrott Henry Perry Peter Perry (Captain) William Perry Thomas Pettus Francis Peyton Henry Peyton John Peyton Yelverton Peyton John Phelps William...
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    Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 978-0-03-084492-8. LCCN 74102146. Retrieved October 18, 2020. Bernstein...
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    2019. "Press Package". Sanders.Senate.gov. Retrieved February 5, 2015. Winston, Kimberly (February 4, 2016). "Bernie Sanders disappoints some atheists...
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    and served until 1876. The Ku Klux Klan in 1877 was led by General Edmund W. Pettus as Grand Dragon of the Realm. Dearborn, Mary (2017), Ernest Hemingway:...
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  • Claudia Chelcie Ross as Martin Dan Butler as Charlie Philip Sterling as Winston Michael Sansom as Eugene (Angry Man) Schuyler Fisk as Judy (Girl at Oak...
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  • of Jerry Pettis. John J. Pettus (1813–1867), Governor of Mississippi 1854 1859–63. Brother of Edmund Pettus. Edmund W. Pettus (1821–1907), Circuit Court...
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  • Republican 1848–1926 John Pettit 1853–1855 3 Indiana Democratic 1807–1877 Edmund Pettus 1897–1907 3 Alabama Democratic 1821–1907 James D. Phelan 1915–1921 3...
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    the Voting Rights Act. On March 5, Jackson attended an event on the Edmund Pettus Bridge commemorating the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and spoke...
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    Brown Chapel Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Holt Street Baptist Church Edmund Pettus Bridge March on Washington Movement African-American churches attacked...
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