Alabama's 2nd congressional district

Alabama's 2nd congressional district
Alabama's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
U.S. Representative	Martha Roby (R–Montgomery)
Area	10,608 sq mi (27,470 km2)
Distribution	54.71[1]% urban 45.29% rural
Population (2016)	681,621[2]
Median income	$46,579[3]
Ethnicity	63.02% White 32.2% Black 1.15% Asian 3.49% Hispanic 0.33% Native American
Occupation	29.5% Blue-collar 55.1% White-collar 15.4% Gray-collar
Cook PVI	R+16[4]

Alabama's 2nd congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It includes most of the Montgomery metropolitan area, and stretches into the Wiregrass Region in the southeastern portion of the state. The district encompasses portions of Montgomery County and the entirety of Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike counties. Other cities in the district include Andalusia, Dothan, Greenville, and Troy.

The district is represented by Republican Martha Roby, a former Montgomery city councilwoman, who defeated Bobby Bright, the Democratic incumbent, in the November 2010 election.

Character

There are several small-to-medium-sized cities spread throughout the district. Fort Rucker and Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base are both within its bounds, as is Troy University.

White voters here were among the first in Alabama to shift from the Democratic Party; the old-line Southern Democrats in this area began splitting their tickets as early as the 1950s. Today, the district is one of the most Republican districts in both Alabama and the nation. It has only supported a Democrat for president once since 1956, when Jimmy Carter carried it in 1976. In 2008, the district elected a Democrat to Congress for the first time since 1964, but it reverted to its Republican ways in 2010. At the state and local level, however, conservative Democrats continued to hold most offices as late as 2002.

White voters gave John McCain, the Republican candidate, 63.42% of the vote in 2008; Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, received 36.05%, attracting voters beyond the substantial (and expected) African-American minority.

The district gives its congressmen very long tenures in Washington; only six people have represented it since 1923.

Voting

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Congress	Electoral History	District Map
District created March 4, 1823
John McKee	Jacksonian Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th	First elected in 1822.
	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825– March 4, 1829	19th 20th	Re-elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Retired.
Robert E. B. Baylor	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	21st	Elected in 1828. Lost re-election.
Samuel Wright Mardis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	22nd	Elected in 1830. Redistricted to the 3rd district.
John McKinley	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	23rd	Elected in 1832. Retired.
Joshua L. Martin	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	24th	First elected in 1834
	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	25th	Re-elected in 1836. [Data unknown/missing.]
David Hubbard	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	26th	Elected in 1838. Lost re-election.
District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket		March 3, 1841 – March 4, 1843	27th
James Edwin Belser	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	28th	Elected in 1842. Retired.
Henry Washington Hilliard	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851	29th 30th 31st	First elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Re-elected in 1848. Retired.
James Abercrombie	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855	32nd 33rd	First elected in 1850. Re-elected in 1852. [Data unknown/missing.]
Eli Sims Shorter	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859	34th 35th	First elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856. [Data unknown/missing.]
James L. Pugh	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861	36th	Elected in 1858. Withdrew.
Civil War and Reconstruction		January 21, 1861 – July 21, 1868
Charles Waldron Buckley	Republican	July 21, 1868 – March 3, 1873	40th 41st 42nd	First elected to finish the partial term.  Re-elected in 1868.  Re-elected in 1870. [Data unknown/missing.]
James T. Rapier	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	Elected in 1872. [Data unknown/missing.]
Jeremiah Norman Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	44th	Elected in 1874. Redistricted to the 3rd district [Data unknown/missing.]
Hilary A. Herbert	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1893	45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd	First elected in 1876.  Re-elected in 1878.  Re-elected in 1880.  Re-elected in 1882.  Re-elected in 1884.  Re-elected in 1886. Re-elected in 1888 Re-elected in 1890 [Data unknown/missing.]
Jesse F. Stallings	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901	53rd 54th 55th 56th	First elected in 1892.  Re-elected in 1894.  Re-elected in 1896.  Re-elected in 1898. [Data unknown/missing.]
Ariosto A. Wiley	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – June 17, 1908	57th 58th 59th 60th	First elected in 1900. Re-elected in 1902.  Re-elected in 1904.  Re-elected in 1906. Died [Data unknown/missing.]
Vacant		June 17, 1908 – November 3, 1908
Oliver C. Wiley	Democratic	November 3, 1908 – March 3, 1909	60th	Elected to finish his brother's term.
S. Hubert Dent, Jr.	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1921	61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th	First elected in 1908.  Re-elected in 1910.  Re-elected in 1912.  Re-elected in 1914.  Re-elected in 1916.  Re-elected in 1918. [Data unknown/missing.]
John R. Tyson	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 27, 1923	67th 68th	First elected in 1920. Re-elected in 1922. Died [Data unknown/missing.]
Vacant		March 27, 1923 – August 14, 1923
J. Lister Hill	Democratic	August 14, 1923 – March 3, 1933	68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd	First elected to finish Tyson's term. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926.  Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in 1930. Re-elected in 1932.  Re-elected in 1934.  Re-elected in 1936. Resigned when appointed U.S. Senator.
		March 4, 1933 – January 11, 1938	73rd 74th 75th
Vacant		January 11, 1938 – June 14, 1938
George M. Grant	Democratic	June 14, 1938 – January 3, 1963	75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th	First elected to finish Hill's term.  Re-elected in 1938.  Re-elected in 1940.  Re-elected in 1942.  Re-elected in 1944.  Re-elected in 1946.  Re-elected in 1948.  Re-elected in 1950.  Re-elected in 1952.  Re-elected in 1954.  Re-elected in 1956. Re-elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Redistricted to the At-large district
District inactive, all representatives elected at-large on a general ticket.		January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
William Louis Dickinson	Republican	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1973	89th 90th 91st 92nd	First elected in 1964.  Re-elected in 1966.  Re-elected in 1968. Re-elected in 1970.  Re-elected in 1972. Re-elected in 1974.  Re-elected in 1976.  Re-elected in 1978.  Re-elected in 1980.  Re-elected in 1982.  Re-elected in 1984.  Re-elected in 1986.  Re-elected in 1988.  Re-elected in 1990. [Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1993	93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd
Terry Everett	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003	103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th	First elected in 1992.  Re-elected in 1994.  Re-elected in 1996.  Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000.  Re-elected in 2002.  Re-elected in 2004.  Re-elected in 2006. [Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009	108th 109th 110th
Bobby Bright	Democratic	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011	111th	Elected in 2008. [Data unknown/missing.]
Martha Roby	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	112th	First elected in 2010.  Re-elected in 2012.  Re-elected in 2014.  Re-elected in 2016.  Re-elected in 2018. [Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 2013 – present	113th 114th 115th 116th

Results

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

Living former Members

As of April 2015^[update], there are two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district that are currently living. The most recent representative to die was William Louis Dickinson (1965-1993) on March 31, 2008.

Historical district boundaries

2003 - 2013

See also

• Alabama's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
• A New Nation Votes

External links

• CNN coverage of the 2008 election
• CNN coverage of the 2006 election
• CNN coverage of the 2004 election
• CNN coverage of the 2002 election
• CNN coverage of the 2000 election

This page was last edited on 10 January 2019, at 02:37