Kenyen Brown took the oath as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, becoming the first Black person to hold the post, with a public ceremony expected to follow within weeks.
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Pierre Pelham, 1929-2009: The Chatom Lawyer Who Ran the Alabama Senate
Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable and elusive figure.
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A Chickasaw Politician’s Quiet Campaign to Free a Louisiana Governor
Former Mobile County Tax Assessor Ken Malone planned a public crusade to free imprisoned ex-Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards. After a two-hour prison visit in 2007, he agreed to fight quietly instead.
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Alabama’s Longest-Serving Judge to Leave the Mobile Bench Three Months Early
Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, appointed by George Wallace 41 years earlier and the longest continuously serving judge in Alabama history, planned to step down from the Mobile bench on Oct. 1, 2006.