Draft:W. T. Ewing
Whitley Thomas Ewing (above)
or
William Thomas Ewing
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85557256/whitley-thomas-ewing
http://genealogytrails.com/ala/etowah/bios1.html
ran for governor with Republican nomination in 1888[3]
There also appear to be a Dr. Whitley Thomas Ewing? https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85557256/whitley-thomas-ewing
W. T. Ewing was a Republican Party organizer after the American Civil War. Historian Walter Lynwood Fleming described him as one of the "Moulton Leaguers" who first organized the "Radical party" in Alabama in 1865. Fleming identified Ewing with Baine County (now Etowah County).[4][5]
He fled to northern Alabama from Georgia during the American Civil War.[5] He was a delegate from Baine County at the 1868 Alabama Constitutional Convention and opposed efforts that changed the county's name to Etowah from Baine, in honor of Confederate military commander David W. Baine who was killed in battle.[6]
He served as Gadsden, Alabama's postmaster. [7]
He finished third in a campaign for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives behind John B. Callis and J. W. Burke.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical". 1888.
- ^ Land, Smith De (1974). Northern Alabama historical and biographical. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-5-87168-563-1.
- ^ Going, Allen Johnston (1951). Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874–1890. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817305802.
- ^ Fleming, Walter Lynwood (June 2, 1905). Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231906586 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Storey, Margaret M. (September 1, 2004). Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807130223 – via Google Books.
- ^ Goodson, Mike (February 16, 2009). Etowah County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439622667 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Official Register of the United States: Containing a List of Officers and Employés in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service ..." U.S. Government Printing Office. June 2, 1881 – via Google Books.
- ^ Congress, United States (1869). "Official Congressional Directory".
- This draft is in progress as of October 10, 2023.