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Thomas Bibb

American politician

Died when: 56 years 135 days (676 months)
Star Sign: Taurus

 

Thomas Bibb

Thomas Bibb (May 8, 1783 – September 20, 1839) was the second governor of the US state of Alabama and served from 1820 to 1821.He was the president of the Alabama Senate when his brother, Governor William Wyatt Bibb, died in office on July 10, 1820, as a result of a fall from a horse.

By virtue of his senatorial office and in accordance with the State Constitution, Thomas Bibb took over as governor for the remainder of his brother's term.

He did not seek election as governor on his own but later served in the Alabama House of Representatives.He was born in Amelia County, Virginia, in 1783.

He grew up in Georgia before he moved to what later became Alabama.He was married to Parmelia Thompson from 1809 to his death.

Bibb was an ancestor of , a Louisiana politician who served as the mayor of Shreveport from 1954 to 1958.Julia Pleasants and David Creswell, Gardner's maternal great-grandparents, married in 1854 at Bibb's columned plantation house, Belle Mina, in Limestone County near Huntsville, Alabama.


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