Editing Barbour County, Alabama (section)

==Notable people==

===Governors from Barbour County===
As a center of the planter elite class, Barbour County has produced more Alabama governors than any other county in the state. Six elected governors as well as two acting governors have lived in the county. In 2000, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090702012158/http://www.alabamabyways.org/state.htm#governor Barbour County Governors' Trail] was established by an act of the Alabama Legislature to honor the eight distinguished men and women who have served as governor from the county.

Marking changes in 20th-century politics, Chauncey Sparks, the Wallaces, and Jere Beasley were not from the planter elite.

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Alabama governors from Barbour County
|-
! Name
! In Office
! Hometown
|-
| [[John Gill Shorter]]
| 1861–1863
| Eufaula, AL
|-
| [[William Dorsey Jelks]]
| 1901–1907
| Eufaula, AL
|-
| [[Braxton Bragg Comer]]
| 1907–1911
| Spring Hill, AL
|-
| [[Charles S. McDowell]]
| July 10,11, 1924
| Eufaula, AL
|-
| [[Chauncey Sparks]]
| 1943–1947
| Eufaula, AL
|-
| [[George Corley Wallace]]
| 1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987
| Clio, AL
|-
| 
|-
| [[Jere Beasley]]
| June 5 – July 7, 1972
| Clayton, AL
|-
|}