Produced 1991. 50min.

This former state worker and office holder shares her memories of governors and events from the 1930s through the present.

The videotape is 55 minutes.

Mrs. Mabel Amos- June 3, 1900 - Nov. 5, 1999

The following came from the Official and Statistical Register of 1955 on page 34. She was listed as Recording Secretary to the Governor. This was the only Listing where she slipped up and let them put her birth date. She is also listed as Recording Secretary to Govs. Folsom, Persons, Patterson, and Wallace. She also worked for Govs. Dixon and Sparks.

Mrs. Mabel (Sanders) Amos, recording Secretary to the Governor, was born in Brooklyn, Conecuh County, Alabama, June 3, 1900; daughter of James J. and Hattie (Bethea) Sanders; granddaughter of Isaac Monroe and Mary (Perdue) Sanders, and of John Goodman and Viola (Rabun) Bethea, all of Conecuh County. Mrs. Amos was educated in the public schools of her native town, attended Alabama College at Montevallo, State Teachers College at Troy, and Peabody College at Nashville, Tenn., and received her business training at Massey Business College, Montgomery. She taught school in Brooklyn and held a stenographic position in the State tax Commission in 1931 and has continued in the employment of the state from that time until the present. She is a Democrat and a Baptist.

Mrs. Mabel was elected Secretary of State in 1967 and served to 1975. Click here to hear Ms. Amos express her opinion about Govs. Folsom and Wallace

The file is large but for the History Buff it should be worth the wait!