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Scottish-American Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1870 to 1872
Robert B. Lindsay
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Scottish-American Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1870 to 1872
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Place of birth
Lochmaben
Place of death
Tuscumbia
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77 years
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Robert Burns Lindsay (July 4, 1824, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland – February 13, 1902, Tuscumbia, Alabama) was the 22nd Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1870 to 1872.
Lindsay studied at the University of St Andrews before emigrating to the United States in 1844. He served in both the Alabama House of Representatives and the Alabama Senate prior to the American Civil War.
A Democrat, he was voted into the governorship in 1870 after a year of widespread anti-black terrorism, which included the lynching of four blacks and a white in Calhoun County, the murder of two blacks (one a Republican politician) in Greene County, and the October Eutaw riot.
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