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Robert Burns Lindsay (July 4, 1824 – February 13, 1902) was a Scots-American politician, elected as the 22nd Governor of the U.S. stateofAlabama during Reconstruction, and serving one term from 1870 to 1872.[1]
Robert Burns Lindsay
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| 22nd Governor of Alabama | |
| In office November 26, 1870 – November 17, 1872 | |
| Lieutenant | Edward H. Moren |
| Preceded by | William Hugh Smith |
| Succeeded by | David P. Lewis |
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| Born | (1824-07-04)July 4, 1824 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland |
| Died | February 13, 1902(1902-02-13) (aged 77) Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Sarah Miller Winston |
| Alma mater | –University of St Andrews |
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Robert B. Lindsay was born in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on July 4, 1824. He studied at the University of St Andrews before emigrating to the United States in 1844.[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1853 and the Alabama Senate in 1857, 1865, and 1870.[3]
A Democrat, Lindsay was elected governor in 1870, following a year of white terrorism against black people: violence, including murders, and intimidation of black and white Republicans and freedmen supporters. For example, five Republicans, four black and one white, were lynched in Calhoun County; three black people (two who were Republican politicians) were murdered in Greene County, in March and October; the white Republican County Solicitor was murdered there in March; and on October 25, a Republican rally of 2,000 black people was disrupted by a mob of whites, who killed four black people and wounded 54 in the Eutaw riot.[4] Black people were intimidated and stayed home from the polls, with Democratic white voters in Greene County and elsewhere taking the state for Lindsay.[5]
He died in Tuscumbia, Alabama on February 13, 1902.[2]
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| Vacant Title last held by Michael J. Bulger |
Democratic nominee for Governor of Alabama 1870 |
Vacant Title next held by George S. Houston |
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| Preceded by | Governor of Alabama 1870–1872 |
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