Site - Alabama’s First Constitutional Convention
Here, on July 5, 1819 forty-four delegates from twenty-two Counties in the Alabama Territory met to frame a State Constitution which was accepted and signed August 2, 1819.
Convention leadership was furnished by two Huntsvillians, John Williams Walker, president, and Clement Comer Clay, chairman of a committee appointed to draft the document.
Marker is on Franklin Street Southeast, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
