B. B. Comer

B. B. Comer
Official portrait, 1920
United States Senator
from Alabama
In office
March 5, 1920 – November 2, 1920
Appointed byThomas Kilby
LieutenantHenry B. Gray
Preceded byJohn H. Bankhead
Succeeded byJ. Thomas Heflin
33rd Governor of Alabama
In office
January 14, 1907 – January 17, 1911
Preceded byWilliam D. Jelks
Succeeded byEmmet O'Neal
Personal details
Born
Braxton Bragg Comer

November 7, 1848
Spring Hill, Alabama
DiedAugust 15, 1927 (aged 78)
Birmingham, Alabama
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseEva Jane
ChildrenSally Bailey Comer
John Fletcher Comer
James McDonald Comer
Eva Mignon Comer
Catherine Comer
Braxton Bevelle Comer
Eva Comer
Braxton Bragg Comer Jr.
Hugh M. Comer
RelativesHugh Comer (brother)
J. W. Comer (brother)
EducationUniversity of Alabama
University of Georgia
Emory and Henry College
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Braxton Bragg Comer (November 7, 1848 – August 15, 1927) was an American politician who served as the 33rd governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and a United States senator in 1920. As governor, he achieved railroad reform, lowering business rates in Alabama to make them more competitive with other states. He increased funding for the public school system, resulting in more rural schools and high schools in each county for white students and a rise in the state's literacy rate.

Comer was a planter and businessman before and after entering politics as a Democrat. He inherited the Comer family 30,000-acre (120 km2) plantation, which was devoted to corn and cotton production. He had an interest in the Comer mines near Birmingham known as the Eureka Mines. In 1897 he invested $10,000 with the Trainer family, who intended to develop textile mills in the state, and he was appointed president of Avondale Mills, which he developed in Birmingham, serving in that role until he died in 1927.


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