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  1. Governors of Alabama - the first hundred years | Alabama Pioneers

    […] 9, 1819. William Wyatt Bibb, of Autauga County, inaugurated Governor of the State of Alabama. He was born October 1, 1780 in […]

  2. University of Alabama is older than the state | Alabama Pioneers

    […] his message to the legislature Gov. William Wyatt Bibb called special attention to the liberal donations which had been made by Congress to Alabama for […]

  3. Dallas County, Alabama has over 1250 historic structures listed on the state and national historic registers | Alabama Pioneers

    […] first officials of the county, all named by Gov. W. W. Bibb, were George Shirley, sheriff, appointed February 23, 1818; Willis Roberts, clerk of the superior […]

  4. William Wyatt Bibb dies from riding accident - Alabama Pioneers

    […] July 10, 1820, Alabama’s first governor, William Wyatt Bibb, died as a result of injuries received in a riding accident on his plantation. As specified in the […]

  5. Indian town Atagi disappears in Autauga County [photographs] - Alabama Pioneers

    […] the early residents of the county were, Gov. Wm. W. Bibb, John A. Elmore, Sr., Bolling Hall, Sr., James Jackson, Robert Gaston, Jacob P. House. Francis […]

  6. Gen. Woodward tells of assisting an Alabama Governor during a fist fight in this letter written Nov. 1858 - Alabama Pioneers

    […] Dr. Bibb made the finest political speech I ever heard […]

  7. Janey Whitten Sabel

    TY for the historical perspectives you offer!

  8. David White

    Why does the headline say (1776-1820) when he was born October 2, 1781?

    1. Donna R Causey

      Thanks for catching that. It was a typo.

  9. Carol Wilson

    Hey he is from Autauga County!

  10. Betty Williams

    He was in Elbert County, Ga in the late 1790’s. His land was next to that of one of my ancestors, Joseph Allen.

  11. A new government was organized for Alabama in 1818 | Alabama Pioneers

    […] first Governor of Alabama Territory was William Wyatt Bibb, then a Senator in the United States from the State of Georgia. He was the son of a Revolutionary […]

  12. Janis Gilbreath Martin

    Thanks for sharing.

  13. Faye Ogles Gothard

    My step Grandfathers name was William Wyatt.

  14. General Jackson’s visit to Huntsville for a horse race created discord at Constitutional Convention – Alabama Pioneers

    […] like Birney had a strong company. Governor Bibb wrote to Tait concerning Jackson’s attack on Pensacola in the Seminole War as […]