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OverviewA biography of Alabama's first Senator, this book is also the fascinating story of Southern frontier life as portrayed in contemporary letters and documents. When Madison County, Alabama, was still wilderness, Walker trekked across the mountains from Georgia with his bride, Matilda Pope, his slaves, and all his household possessions, to build a plantation near Huntsville. Here he began his extraordinary political career: member of the first territorial legislature; speaker of the house in the second; U.S. territorial judge; president of Alabama's Constitutional Convention; and when statehood was won, first U.S. Senator. Though his term in the Senate was cut short by illness, resignation, and death, in the four years he served, he met head-on the most controversial issues of his day--the Missouri Compromise, acquisition of Florida, and land relief legislation. It was in land relief that he made his most significant contribution, for he fathered the 1821 Land Law upon which new public-lands legislation for a decade thereafter was based. His own state wildly acclaimed him upon its passage; other frontier states had good reason to make him the public hero he became. But a year later, at 40, he was dead of tuberculosis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hugh BaileyPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.70cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780817312619ISBN 10: 0817312617 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 30 November 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsFrom rich primary sources Bailey has succeeded in presenting a number of interesting vignettes of the social and political milieu of the Old Southwest. Journal of American History """From rich primary sources Bailey has succeeded in presenting a number of interesting vignettes of the social and political milieu of the Old Southwest."" -Journal of American History" From rich primary sources Bailey has succeeded in presenting a number of interesting vignettes of the social and political milieu of the Old Southwest. <i>Journal of American History</i></p> From rich primary sources Bailey has succeeded in presenting a number of interesting vignettes of the social and political milieu of the Old Southwest. - Journal of American History Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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