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"Lelia Seton Wilder Edmundson, 'Cotton Queen" & Politician' presented by John Allison

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect those of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Join us for our March Food For Thought presentation! John Allison will present "Lelia Seton Wilder Edmundson: 'Cotton Queen' and Politician." Lelia Seton Wilder Edmundson of Morgan County was a successful businesswoman who navigated the male-dominated fields of agriculture, real estate speculation, and finance with intelligence, cunning, and skill. Born in Decatur in 1861, Edmundson gained access to wealth through her marriage to capitalist Charles Wilder. Following Wilder’s early death, she re-married Wallace Edmundson and assumed the role of managing the 1700-acre Wilder cotton plantation. Edmundson successfully created a progressive and popular farm model which earned her the moniker “Cotton Queen of Alabama.” She entered politics as a suffragist involved in Alabama’s earliest stirrings of the women’s suffrage movement. In 1922, Edmundson became the first Alabama woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Morgan County Archivist John Allison is entrusted with the care of the county’s oldest government records, some of which predate Alabama’s statehood in 1819. He has worked to index, catalog, and interpret the Archives’ collection of public and private documents, photographs, and artifacts. Since joining the Archives in 2006, he has expanded its mission to include museum exhibits and public history projects. Allison holds a B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College and an M.A. in History from the University of Maryland. He is a past president of the Society of Alabama Archivists and currently serves on the board of the Alabama Historical Association and Decatur’s Historic Preservation Commission.