History · Marion

Famous people from Marion

24 notable people were born in Marion, from 1819 to 1949.

Coretta Scott King

1927–2006

American author, activist, and civil rights leader; wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Hal Kemp

1904–1940

American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger

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Margaret Lea Houston

1819–1867

First Lady of the Republic/State of Texas

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Jimmie Lee Jackson

1938–1965

American civil rights activist

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C.H.J. Taylor

1857–1898

American journalist

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Edythe Scott Bagley

1924–2011

American author, activist, and educator

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John Trotwood Moore

1858–1929

American journalist, writer and local historian

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Zitella Cocke

1840–1929

American writer; music teacher, composer. Born– November 10, 1840, Marion, Ala. Parents– Woodson St. George and Mary Elizabeth (Binyon) Cocke. Died December 3, 1929.

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Hannah Holliday Stewart

1924–2010

American sculptor

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Jean Childs Young

1933–1994

American educator and advocate for equal access to education

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Lee Cooke

born 1944

American politician and businessman

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Willie McClung

1930–2002

American football player

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Albert Turner

1936–2000

American civil rights activist

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Andrew Billingsley

born 1926

American sociologist, author, lecturer, college professor, and the 10th President of Morgan State University

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Bryant Melton

born 1940

American politician

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Offa S. Lattimore

1865–1937

American politician

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Oscar J. Underwood, Jr

born 1949

American educator, author

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TJ Goree

1835–1905

Confederate Army officer

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Allen Thornton Craig

1904–1978

American mathematician/statistician; 1904-1978

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Ellen Burke Key-Oberg

1905–1983

American artist

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Ollie Palmore Long

1899–1988

American artist

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Robert E. Lawson

born 1913

African American educator

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William C. Davis

born 1872

African American educator

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William Garrott Brown

1868–1913

American historian and essayist

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