American Psephology

The 1944 Presidential Election in Alabama

On November 7, 1944, Alabama's voters voted for eleven at-large electors. Three and a half electoral slates ran.

The Democratic candidates:

  • John E. Adams - 198,904 votes
  • Ben Bloodworth - 198,894 votes
  • Otis R. Burton - 198,907 votes
  • Forrest Castleberry - 198,908 votes
  • W. Frank Covington, Jr. - 198,918 votes
  • Fournier J. Gale - 198,888 votes
  • Gessner T. McCorvey - 198,871 votes
  • John D. McQueen - 198,917 votes
  • Thomas H. Maxwell - 198,880 votes
  • Walter F. Miller - 198,868 votes
  • Bill O. Pope - 197,872 votes

The Republican candidates:

  • E. L. Harvell - 44,478 votes
  • H. A. Jackson - 44,447 votes
  • Pope M. Long - 44,446 votes
  • Jack E. Peterson - 44,496 votes
  • C. S. Prescott - 44,513 votes
  • J. Dewey Rockett - 44,509 votes
  • William M. Russell - 44,540 votes
  • R. M. Sims - 44,433 votes
  • C. R. Stone - 44,540 votes
  • Lyman Ward - 44,467 votes
  • Aaron G. Weaver - 44,306 votes

The Socialist candidates:

  • Minnie C. Adams - 190 votes
  • Robert S. Burgess, Jr. - 182 votes
  • F. M. Buttram - 162 votes
  • D. R. Calloway - 166 votes
  • Frederic Roper - 176 votes

The Prohibition candidates:

  • Mrs. Mary A. Bebout - 1054 votes
  • W. E. Braden - 1054 votes
  • A. J. Dailey - 1095 votes
  • J. B. Lockhart - 1058 votes
  • James C. Mauldin - 1082 votes
  • Mrs. C. H. McAdory - 1069 votes
  • John C. Orr - 1068 votes
  • Mrs. Eunice Sisson - 1050 votes
  • A. W. Stone - 1071 votes
  • Glenn V. Tingley - 1064 votes
  • Emmett Williams - 1081 votes

The county returns are as follows:

Democrats Republicans Prohibitionists Socialists
Autauga 1242 117 5 0
Baldwin 2003 695 22 8
Barbour 2237 67 53 0
Bibb 1287 244 10 2
Blount 2133 998 10 1
Bullock 1056 24 0 0
Butler 1915 80 5 0
Calhoun 4308 694 26 2
Chambers 3458 194 9 0
Cherokee 1774 408 17 1
Chilton 1984 1385 6 1
Choctaw 1244 86 3 0
Clarke 2263 142 3 0
Clay 1535 741 13 1
Cleburne 948 505 6 0
Coffee 2846 115 3 0
Colbert 3386 496 6 2
Conecuh 1498 127 9 6
Coosa 1079 394 5 3
Covington 2972 256 2 1
Crenshaw 1980 118 6 0
Cullman 3898 2202 41 4
Dale 2094 325 8 1
Dallas 2884 149 5 5
DeKalb 4366 2627 9 0
Elmore 3108 184 3 0
Escambia 2077 266 12 0
Etowah 5895 1525 89 12
Fayette 1648 913 10 0
Franklin 2709 1853 6 0
Geneva 2004 385 15 0
Greene 676 45 1 0
Hale 1265 33 0 0
Henry 1635 46 2 0
Houston 3349 282 16 1
Jackson 2967 1026 6 1
Jefferson 31,101 7409 157 17
Lamar 2025 310 16 1
Lauderdale 4001 590 19 1
Lawrence 1893 565 5 0
Lee 2012 134 5 1
Limestone 2605 129 10 0
Lowndes 802 16 1 0
Macon 1032 81 1 0
Madison 4951 455 11 4
Marengo 1746 89 7 2
Marion 1866 1259 10 0
Marshall 3356 1200 5 0
Mobile 9437 2867 86 25
Monroe 1991 46 4 0
Montgomery 9130 382 32 9
Morgan 4124 663 49 0
Perry 1004 47 2 0
Pickens 1482 209 8 0
Pike 2328 90 31 30
Randolph 1785 702 25 0
Russell 2109 115 4 0
Shelby 1955 946 8 2
St. Clair 1819 1117 13 1
Sumter 1075 53 3 0
Talladega 3102 674 25 2
Tallapoosa 3326 136 7 0
Tuscaloosa 4939 584 20 4
Walker 4619 2240 32 12
Washington 1447 115 6 0
Wilcox 1209 30 2 0
Winston 912 1538 10 0
Total 198,906 (81.30%) 44,538 (18.20%) 1056 (.43%) 163 (.07%)

The Democratic slate was duly elected, and voted for Roosevelt and Truman on December 18.