John Gill Shorter
{{Short description|American politician (1818–1872)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = John Gill Shorter
|image = John Gill Shorter.jpg
|order = 17th
|office = Governor of Alabama
|term_start = December 2, 1861
|term_end = December 1, 1863
|predecessor = Andrew B. Moore
|successor = Thomas H. Watts
| office1 = Deputy from Alabama
to the Provisional Congress
of the Confederate States
| term_start1 = February 4, 1861
| term_end1 = December 2, 1861
| predecessor1= New constituency
| successor1 = Constituency abolished
|birth_date = April 23, 1818
|birth_place = Monticello, Georgia, U.S.
|death_date = May 29, 1872 (aged 54)
|death_place = Eufaula, Alabama, U.S.
|resting_place= Shorter Cemetery, Eufaula, Alabama
|party = Democratic
}}
John Gill Shorter (April 23, 1818 – May 29, 1872) was an American politician who served as the 17th Governor of Alabama from 1861 to 1863. Before assuming the governorship, Shorter was a Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from February 1861 to December 1861.
Biography
John Gill Shorter was born on April 23, 1818, in Monticello, Georgia.McKiven, Henry R. Jr. (November 22, 2010) "[http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1468 John Gill Shorter (1861-63)]". Encyclopedia of Alabama - accessed February 18, 2011 History records him as a member of the planter class and an ardent secessionist. During his term of office, Shorter sent state troops to Randolph and other counties to put down resistance to the war effort. In the 1863 election, he was defeated by Thomas H. Watts by three votes to one.{{cite book|last1=Flynt|first1=Wayne|title=Poor But Proud|date=February 5, 2016|publisher=University of Alabama Press|location=1222}} Shorter died on May 29, 1872, in Eufaula, Alabama.
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Further reading
- [http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html.pl/reed_c04?seq=106 History of the University of Georgia, Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca. 1949 p.392]
External links
- {{Find a Grave|8025542}}
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#978.83.35 John Gill Shorter] at The Political Graveyard
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