American Legislative Leaders in the South 1911-1994

The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994 this book covers speakers from Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia. Following an insightful analytical introduction the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the Southern speakers. The volume concludes with valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database.This book complements volumes on the West and Midwest. A volume on the Northeast is forthcoming.