Parsons, Lewis Eliphalet

Life Span
to
Full name
Lewis Eliphalet Parsons
Place of Birth
Broome County, NY
Burial Place
Talladega, AL
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
7
Family
Erastus Bellamy Parsons (father), Jennett Hepburn Parsons (mother), Jane Ann Boyd McCullough Chrisman (wife)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Republican
Government
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Governor
State legislature
Other state government
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
President Johnson appoints Lewis E. Parsons, Sr. as provisional governor of Alabama
- Alabama holds an elected State Convention to plan for the state's return to full national participation
In Montgomery, Robert Miller Patton is inaugurated as Alabama's first elected post-Civil War governor
Reconstruction
Date Title
Andrew Johnson, "Proclamation naming Lewis E. Parsons, Jr. provisional governor of Alabama," June 21, 1865, Washington, D.C.
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