In addition, there are several science labs, computer labs and a library with a video room for viewing materials. There are two gymnasiums, a softball complex, and a baseball complex.
The football stadium has a six lane track, field house, and weight room. In addition to the regulation football field, there are four additional regulation fields that are used for practicing football, soccer, and a marching band field. One of these additional fields is the official soccer field. The former superintendents J. Lile, and Robert Street and board secretary, Jewell Carr. Also, former Governor Albert P.
Brewer for whom the school is named. Several members of the East Morgan county community supported and helped in the development of Brewer. Together, all these leaders had the foresight of creating Albert P.
Special thanks also go to the first principal, James R. Tucker, who was instrumental in developing the structure, discipline, programs, and pride that are still being used as the foundation for creating and maintaining a great learning environment today. Many of the faculty and staff are former Albert P. As the election year loomed, Brewer made plans to run for a full term in office. George Wallace was doing the same thing, though he had publicly said more than once he would not run and had said the same thing to Brewer.
Brewer's slogan was "Full Time for Alabama. Wallace made school busing to achieve integration a major issue and his campaign slogan was, "He's Our Kind of Man. By the time it was over, the campaign had become the nastiest that many Alabama politicians could remember. A political history book on the 25 dirtiest campaigns in U. Brewer kept beating the drum on his full-time approach to governing and the benefits it had brought the state, one of which was an improved national image.
I did have a lot of self confidence about being governor. We had had such a remarkable record of achievement in the two years at that point that I had been in office.
Wallace said the race between himself and Brewer was a choice between continuing or rejecting the national movement he championed for states rights and Alabama values against federal judges, national Republicans and Democrats, the rich elite, big businesses, big outside media and agitators. He also said Brewer was suspect because of his black support.
That message became more pronounced as the campaign went on, even evoking the spectre of a return to the post civil war days when, in the minds of many Alabama whites, freed blacks ran amok in a devastated South. They also circulated a photo showing smiling young black boys surrounding a smiling young white girl in a swimsuit, suggesting such a scenario would be Alabama's future if Brewer was given a full gubernatorial term.
According to Wallace biographer Dan Carter, even Martha Brewer became a target while making campaign stops for her husband. A'On at least half a dozen occasions," Carter wrote, "a distraught aide' would arrive just minutes after she had left, asking worriedly, 'Was she okay? I mean, she wasn't slurring or anything, was she?
We could not respond to that during the campaign. You can't say, 'My daughter's not on drugs' All you do when you talk about things like that is spread it farther. Former Alabama Gov. Albert Brewer to lead constitution revision committee. The race drew a lot of national attention, and was in the sights of Richard Nixon's White House.
The reasoning was simple. Nixon feared that if Wallace regained the governor's chair, he would be a formidable presidential contender in In the first round of a seven-candidate primary, Brewer outpolled Wallace by , votes to , In the hard-ball runoff, Wallace prevailed by , to , Brewer said he saw the outcome in early returns from such north Alabama counties as Lauderdale and Marshall, counties he had carried in the first round.
The race question," Brewer said in Within a week after the election, we were getting letters saying, in effect, 'I don't know what happened to me, I'm sorry that I did not vote for you, I should have and I heard all those things and I should have known better than that and I'm sorry. Brewer also brought to the office a zeal for efficiency and economy in state government and a desire to make Alabama's public education system worthy of national respect.
To date, he is the only governor in Alabama history to have held the offices of speaker, lieutenant governor , and governor in succession. Albert remained in Decatur until , when he enrolled in the University of Alabama , where he majored in both history and political science and worked at a local drugstore.
In , Brewer graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he formed close friendships with other students who would become major figures in Alabama's history during the second half of the twentieth century. These friendships proved invaluable to Brewer during his years in government. Brewer returned to Decatur and established a law practice. In , Morgan County's state representative retired, and Brewer was prodded by local business and community leaders to run for the vacant seat.
He was initially reluctant to run. Brewer had recently married Martha Farmer, with whom he would have two girls, and wanted to focus on his practice. The potential for new clients, visibility, and a desire to pursue his interest in public service, however, convinced him to seek public office.
Brewer won and entered the legislature in , where he joined many of his old law school friends. This core of young, professional, enthusiastic legislators held progressive ideas, such as improving education, reapportioning the state legislature, modernizing rules for the legal profession, improving the highway system, and focusing on economic development.
Brewer was reelected in and to second and third terms, and in he defeated better-known candidates to become one of the youngest speakers of the state house in Alabama history. He enjoyed Gov. George Wallace 's approval, and his congenial and urbane demeanor made him popular with other legislators.
Although considered a "Wallace man," Brewer was able to remain relatively independent of the governor. In , with Wallace unable to succeed himself, Brewer considered a run for chief executive but gave up that idea when Lurleen Wallace entered the race with the backing of husband George.
Brewer held no illusions that he could win if she ran. He decided, therefore, to run for lieutenant governor, and with support from Wallace allies, organized labor , and urban areas, he defeated his opponent by a vote of more than four to one.
As lieutenant governor, Brewer supported Lurleen Wallace, but on his own he initiated an educational review commission that later provided the framework for his educational reform package as governor.
During early , Brewer and other Alabama attorneys traveled to northern states to help place former governor George Wallace on state ballots as an independent candidate for president.
Albert Brewer Oath of Office At Lurleen Wallace's death on May 7, , Brewer became the first lieutenant governor to take the office of governor under the constitution. He replaced only a few of Wallace's aides with his own. One of the first differences that Alabamians noticed about Gov. Brewer was how his style and disposition differed from George Wallace.
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