BAMA MAMMOTHS: 2024

from the November 6, 1851 DAILY REPUBLIC (Washington, D.C.)

Arthur F. Hopkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_F._Hopkins

"Judge Hopkins was said to be highly educated. That he was a man of great intellectual power was admitted by all. He was a Whig of the purest water. In 1840 he was on the electoral ticket in favor on the election of the grandfather of the grandson (who is now President) of the present year. On the ticket with him was John Gayle [father of Amelia Gayle Gorgas] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gayle_(Alabama_politician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Sinclair

, Nicholas Davis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicholas_Davis_Sr.jpg

Thomas Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Williams_(Alabama_politician)

, HARRY I. THORNTON https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Innes_Thornton_(1797-1861)_(cropped).jpg

, Henry W. Hilliard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_W._Hilliard and

James Abercrombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abercrombie_(congressman)

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/james-abercrombie/

(Abercrombie provided brick for Gulf forts. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30145900

- WHAT AN ARRAY OF TALENT- I doubt if it has ever been equaled by an electoral ticket in Alabama and NOT SURPASSED ANYWHERE." ~ E.A. Powell