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 Mobile Reader Took Jeff Sessions to Task Over the Nation’s ‘Financial Soul’
In a letter to the editor, Mobile’s Pierre Pelham argued that Alabama’s senior senator had been silent when it counted – on the Iraq war and on the mortgage system – and had no standing to lecture on finance.
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The Gonzo Journalist Who Wrote a Book in a Mobile Apartment
After Hunter S. Thompson’s death in February 2005, Mobile friends recalled the months the gonzo journalist spent writing a book in a borrowed apartment on Government Street.