United States Congressional Delegations From Alabama - Footnotes

Footnotes

* designates those Congresses in which representatives were elected from the state at large, rather than by district.

• 1. Resigned.
• 2. Died in office.
• 3. Was appointed to the office, and was later replaced by an elected successor.
• 4. Seat was vacant due to failure of legislature to elect a senator by the beginning of the congress.
• 5. From secession until readmission to the Union, Alabama did not participate in the U.S. Congress.
• 6. George S. Houston presented credentials as a senator-elect on February 9, 1866 but was not permitted to take his seat, Alabama having not been re-admitted to the Union.
• 7. Successfully contested the election of the representative that was replaced.
• 8. Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the previous representative being elected to the next term, but dying before the term began.
• 9. Seat was contested by James Q. Smith and declared vacant; the original representative won back his own seat.
• 10. The seat was vacant from August 8, 1913 to May 11, 1914. Henry D. Clayton was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph F. Johnston in 1913, but his appointment was challenged and withdrawn. Franklin Potts Glass, Sr. was also appointed to the seat, but the U.S. Senate voted not to seat him.
• 11. Senator Shelby was elected as a Democrat in 1986, but switched his party affiliation to Republican on November 9, 1994.
• 12. Parker Griffith was elected as a Democrat, but switched his party affiliation to Republican on December 22, 2009.