John Gill Shorter
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox officeholder 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.<ref name="EoAL">McKiven, Henry R. Jr. (November 22, 2010) "John Gill Shorter (1861-63)". Encyclopedia of Alabama - accessed February 18, 2011</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Shorter died on May 29, 1872, in Eufaula, Alabama.<ref name="EoAL" />
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- 1818 births
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- Alabama lawyers
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- Democratic Party governors of Alabama
- Deputies and delegates to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
- People from Monticello, Georgia
- People of Alabama in the American Civil War
- People from Eufaula, Alabama
- Signatories of the Constitution of the Confederate States
- Signatories of the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States
- University of Georgia alumni
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