1964 Alabama Democratic presidential elector primary
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May 5, 1964
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.svg) County results (unofficial and incomplete results for place 1, compiled by The Birmingham News on May 7)
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The 1964 Alabama Democratic presidential elector primary was held on May 5, 1964, to choose the ten nominees for presidential electors to be listed on the general election ballot under the Democratic party label in the 1964 United States presidential election in Alabama. In 1960, Alabama was the only state where both presidential electors and DNC delegates were elected by popular vote.[1] Instead of every candidate running in an at-large election, each candidate ran for a designated place, with the highest-placing candidates in each place receiving the nomination.
The election resulted in the nomination of ten unpledged electors not loyal to the national Democratic Party. Alabama was the only state in which Lyndon B. Johnson or electors pledged to him did not appear on the general election ballot in 1964.
Unpledged electors
The following candidates were recruited to serve as unpledged electors:[2]
- Place 1: James Allen, 17th and 20th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (1951–1955, 1963–1967)
- Place 2: Edmund Blair, newspaper publisher and independent elector in 1960
- Place 3: Albert Brewer, 58th Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives (1963–1967)
- Place 4: Albert H. Evans, state senator from Alabama's 19th Senate district (1962–1966)
- Place 5: MacDonald Gallion, 37th and 39th Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971)
- Place 6: Jack Giles, director of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations (1963–1964)
- Place 7: Art Hanes, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama (1961–1963)
- Place 8: Pete Matthews, state senator from Alabama's 34th Senate district (1962–1966)
- Place 9: Frank Mizell, attorney and independent elector in 1960
- Place 10: Jud Scott, businessman
Pledged electors
The following candidates were recruited to serve as loyalist electors:[2]
- Place 1: Joseph N. Langan, mayor of Mobile, Alabama (1955–1956, 1957–1958, 1963–1964, 1965–1967)
- Place 2: J. E. Brantley, mayor of Banks, Alabama, loyalist elector in 1960
- Place 3: Barrett Shelton, newspaper publisher
- Place 4: John Sears Casey, state representative from Cleburne County (1959–1967)
- Place 5: Elbert Bertram Haltom Jr., state senator from Alabama's 1st Senate district (1958–1962)
- Place 6: H. Brandt Ayers, publisher of The Anniston Star
- Place 7: E. W. Skidmore, state senator from Alabama's 11th Senate district (1950–1958, 1966–1970)
- Place 8: C. G. Allen, loyalist elector in 1960
- Place 9: Karl Harrison, loyalist elector in 1960
- Place 10: J. K. Hardwick, mayor of Talladega, Alabama
Other candidates
The following candidates were not on either slate:[2]
- Place 1:
- Jerry Coe, former assistant attorney general
- John Crommelin, perennial candidate
- Place 2
- Ralph Price, perennial candidate
- John Watts, businessman
- Place 3: Oley B. Kelley, insurance man
