Albert Brewer
| Albert Brewer | |
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| 47th Governor of Alabama | |
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In office May 7, 1968 – January 18, 1971 |
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| Preceded by | Lurleen Wallace |
| Succeeded by | George Wallace |
| 21st Lieutenant Governor of Alabama | |
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In office January 16, 1967 – May 7, 1968 |
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| Governor | Lurleen Wallace |
| Preceded by | James Allen |
| Succeeded by | Jere Beasley |
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Albert Preston Brewer October 26, 1928 Bethel Springs, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 2017 (aged 88) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Farmer (1950–2006) |
| Education | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (BA, LLB) |
Albert Preston Brewer (October 26, 1928 – January 2, 2017) was an American politician who was the 47th governor of Alabama from May 7, 1968 until January 18, 1971.
Brewer was born in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. He attended the University of Alabama and was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. Prior to his election as the 21st Lieutenant Governor, he served three terms in the Alabama House of Representatives from Morgan County from 1954 to 1966. During the last of these terms, 1962 to 1966, Brewer, at age thirty-four, became the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, the youngest person in state history to have held this post.
In 1964, Speaker Brewer and the future U.S. Senator James B. Allen, then the lieutenant governor, were among the unpledged presidential electors on the Alabama ballot. They lost to the Republican slate committed to Barry M. Goldwater. No electors pledged to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson were permitted on the Alabama ballot. While national Democrats balked over Johnson's exclusion, most supported the unpledged slate, which competed directly with the Republican electors. As the The Tuscaloosa News explained, loyalist electors would have offered a clearer choice to voters than did the unpledged slate.
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