Governor Emmet O'Neal

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Title

Governor Emmet O'Neal

Subject

Governor Emmet O'Neal

Description

The son of Edward A. O’Neal, Emmet O’Neal was the thirty-sixth governor of Alabama and a resident of Lauderdale County. He served as governor from 1911-1915. Emmet O’Neal was born on September 6, 1853, in Florence, Alabama. After graduating from Florence Wesleyan University and the University of Alabama, Emmet joined his father in practicing law.
Emmet O’Neal married Elizabeth Kirkman in 1881. Courtview, the mansion originally built for George Washington Foster, became the O’Neal’s home in 1900. He was elected governor in 1911, serving two terms in this position. He passed away in 1930 and is buried in Florence Cemetery.

Creator

Kayla Scott, University of North Alabama

Source

William Lindsey McDonald, A Walk Through The Past: People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama. (Bluewater Publications, 2003), 50-53.

Debra Glass and Larry Fisher, eds. Remembering Florence: A Pictorial History Volume 1. 2011, 105.

Image of Emmet A. O'Neal courtesy of UNA Collier Library Archives

Image of Courtview/Rogers Hall courtesy of Kayla Scott

Publisher

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

Date

1853-1930

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