![]() ![]() ![]() Roy Johnson, a former Holt schoolteacher and now head of the state system of two-year colleges, provided the loyal opposition in the House with the considerable help of the Alabama Education Association and its powerful (as much now as then) head, Paul Hubbert. George Wallace was governor Jere Beasley was lieutenant governor Joe Fine, a state senator from Russellville who became a University of Alabama trustee, was the power behind the throne in his role as Senate speaker pro tem and Joe McCorquodale, a state representative from Jackson, was Speaker of the House. ![]() I covered the last day of a session of the Alabama Legislature for the first time 30 years ago, and my/svisit last Monday to the climactic day of the 2005 regular session brought back a lot of memories - some of them even pleasant.īack then, the spacious high-tech Alabama Statehouse hadn't even been thought of yet and the House and Senate were meeting in the historic old Alabama Capitol, where a brass star above the steps facing Dexter Avenue still marks the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy. ![]()
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