Official portrait of Forrest Hood "Fob" James, forty-eighth governor of Alabama.
James was governor from 1979 to 1983 and from 1995 to 1999. The portrait was painted by Delaplane in 1984. In it James is holding the trunk of a small tree in his left hand and grasping the roots with his right; this was intended to symbolize the grassroots campaign he ran in 1978: "Some people...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | James was governor from 1979 to 1983 and from 1995 to 1999. The portrait was painted by Delaplane in 1984. In it James is holding the trunk of a small tree in his left hand and grasping the roots with his right; this was intended to symbolize the grassroots campaign he ran in 1978: "Some people said I didn't have a chance of being elected, but I appealed to the roots. The portrait is symbolic of that." (From Ben Windham's "Southern Lights" column in The Tuscaloosa News on October 31, 2004.) |
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