| LC control no. | nr 95010758 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gayle, John, 1792-1859 |
| See also | Family: Gayle (Family : Mobile, Ala.) Chief executive of: Alabama. Governor (1831-1835 : Gayle) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Mobile (Ala.) |
| Birth date | 1792-09-11 |
| Death date | 1859-07-21 |
| Place of birth | Sumter County (S.C.) |
| Place of death | Mobile (Ala.) |
| Profession or occupation | Governors Legislators |
| Found in | Alabama. General Assembly. Sale of public lands, 1830: p. 2 (John Gayle, speaker of the House of Representatives) Owen, T.M. Hist. of Alabama and dict. of Ala. bio., 1929: v. 3, p. 647 (Gayle, John; lawyer; jurist; legislator; congressman; sixth governor of Alabama; b. 9/11/1792 in Sumter District, S.C.; d. 7/21/1859 at Mobile, Ala.) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, 1989 (Gayle, John; representative from Ala.; lawyer at Mobile, Ala.; speaker of the Ala. House, 1829; gov. of Ala., 1831-1835; b. 9/11/1792; d. 7/21/1859) Biog. dir. of the governors of the U.S., 1978: p. 9 (Gayle, John, 1831-1835, b. 9/11/1792; d. 7/28/1859) Finding aid for Gayle and Crawford family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Jan. 20, 2021 (The collection includes travel diaries, 1839-1854, and about 20 family letters, 1826-1895, of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford (1824-1895), daughter of John Gayle. Sarah Crawford's diaries describe traveling from Alabama to New York and attending school there, 1839-1840; visiting in South Carolina; attending President Zachary Taylor's inaugural ball; traveling in Vermont and Canada, 1849; and travels in the South, New York, England, France, and Spain, and returning to Mobile, Ala., 1853-1854. Also included is William Crawford's diary, 1852, kept while he was traveling in Switzerland and Italy) <https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02777/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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