SJR1 Summary

• Commemorates the life and death of former Alabama Governor Albert Preston Brewer, who died on January 2, 2017, at age 88.

• Recognizes Brewer's service as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1963 to 1966, Lieutenant Governor beginning in 1966, and Governor from 1968 until 1971.

• Credits Brewer with creating the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, Education Study Commission, Alabama Development Office, state motor pool, and Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama.

• Notes Brewer's post-gubernatorial career as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Samford University starting in 1987 and his active membership in Mountain Brook Baptist Church.

• Senate adopted the resolution on February 7, 2017, and the House adopted it on February 9, 2017.