Editing Wedowee, Alabama (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Hulond Humphries]] – part-time hog farmer; former high school principal and district superintendent.
*[[John Merrill (American politician)|John Merrill]] – politician; former [[Secretary of State of Alabama]]
*[[T. Jack Lee]] – sixth Director of the [[NASA]] [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], Alabama, 1989-1994
*[[Stanley O'Neal]] – former CEO of [[Merrill Lynch]]; currently on the board of [[Alcoa]]
*[[William Hugh Smith]] – [[Governor of Alabama|21st Governor of Alabama]], 1868-1870; serving during the [[Reconstruction Era of the United States|Reconstruction]] era, he was the first [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Governor of Alabama]]. He had moved with his parents to Wedowee in 1839, at the age of 13; read law under John T. Heflin of Wedowee.<ref name= "Wedowee, Alabama"  >{{Citation | title = Alabama Governors -- William Hugh Smith | publisher = Alabama Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_smithw.html | access-date = March 24, 2011 | archive-date = May 7, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160507071225/http://www.archives.state.al.us/govs_list/g_smithw.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> A historic marker now stands on the site of his family's home along N. Main Street ([[U.S. Route 431 in Alabama|U.S. Route 431]]) in Wedowee.
*[[Alvin Wright]] – former NFL [[defensive lineman]]