Alabama's 2nd congressional district

Coordinates: 31°38′38.5″N 86°2′41.72″W / 31.644028°N 86.0449222°W / 31.644028; -86.0449222

Alabama's 2nd congressional district
Alabama's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Current 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	$42,035
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[3]

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	Electoral History	District Map
District created March 4, 1823
John McKee	Jacksonian Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	First elected in 1822.
	Jacksonian	March 4, 1825– March 4, 1829	Re-elected in 1824. Re-elected in 1826. Retired.
Robert E. B. Baylor	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831	Elected in 1828. Lost re-election.
Samuel Wright Mardis	Jacksonian	March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833	Elected in 1830. Redistricted to the 3rd district.
John McKinley	Jacksonian	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835	Elected in 1832. Retired.
Joshua L. Martin	Jacksonian	March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837	First elected in 1834
	Democratic	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	Re-elected in 1836. [Data unknown/missing.]
David Hubbard	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	Elected in 1838. Lost re-election.
District inactive, all representatives elected At-large on a general ticket		March 3, 1841 – March 4, 1843
James Edwin Belser	Democratic	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	Elected in 1842. Retired.
Henry Washington Hilliard	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851	First elected in 1844. Re-elected in 1846. Re-elected in 1848. Retired.
James Abercrombie	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1855	First elected in 1850. Re-elected in 1852. [Data unknown/missing.]
Eli Sims Shorter	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859	First elected in 1854. Re-elected in 1856. [Data unknown/missing.]
James L. Pugh	Democratic	March 4, 1859 – January 21, 1861	Elected in 1858. Withdrew.
Civil War and Reconstruction		January 21, 1861 – July 21, 1868
Charles Waldron Buckley	Republican	July 21, 1868 – March 3, 1873	First elected to finish the vacant term. [Data unknown/missing.]
James T. Rapier	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	[Data unknown/missing.]
Jeremiah Norman Williams	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 3rd district
Hilary A. Herbert	Democratic	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1893	[Data unknown/missing.]
Jesse F. Stallings	Democratic	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1901	[Data unknown/missing.]
Ariosto A. Wiley	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – June 17, 1908	Died [Data unknown/missing.]
Vacant		June 17, 1908 – November 3, 1908
Oliver C. Wiley	Democratic	November 3, 1908 – March 3, 1909	Elected to finish his brother's term.
S. Hubert Dent, Jr.	Democratic	March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1921	[Data unknown/missing.]
John R. Tyson	Democratic	March 4, 1921 – March 27, 1923	Died [Data unknown/missing.]
Vacant		March 27, 1923 – August 14, 1923
J. Lister Hill	Democratic	August 14, 1923 – March 3, 1933	First elected to finish Tyson's term. Resigned when appointed U.S. Senator.
		March 4, 1933 – January 11, 1938
Vacant		January 11, 1938 – June 14, 1938
George M. Grant	Democratic	June 14, 1938 – January 3, 1963	First elected to finish Hill's term. 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	[Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1993
Terry Everett	Republican	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003	[Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009
Bobby Bright	Democratic	January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011	[Data unknown/missing.]
Martha Roby	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	[Data unknown/missing.]
		January 3, 2013 – present

Results

Living former Members

As of April 2015, 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