Robert Burns Lindsay (July 4, 1824 – February 13, 1902) was a Scots-American politician, elected as the 22nd Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama during Reconstruction, and serving one term from 1870 to 1872.^[1]

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Robert Burns Lindsay
22nd Governor of Alabama
In office November 26, 1870 – November 17, 1872
Lieutenant	Edward H. Moren
Preceded by	William Hugh Smith
Succeeded by	David P. Lewis
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Born	(1824-07-04)July 4, 1824 Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Died	February 13, 1902(1902-02-13) (aged 77) Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Sarah Miller Winston
Alma mater	–University of St Andrews
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Robert B. Lindsay was born in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on July 4, 1824. He studied at the University of St Andrews before emigrating to the United States in 1844.^[2] He served in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1853 and the Alabama Senate in 1857, 1865, and 1870.^[3]

A Democrat, Lindsay was elected governor in 1870, following a year of white terrorism against black people: violence, including murders, and intimidation of black and white Republicans and freedmen supporters. For example, five Republicans, four black and one white, were lynched in Calhoun County; three black people (two who were Republican politicians) were murdered in Greene County, in March and October; the white Republican County Solicitor was murdered there in March; and on October 25, a Republican rally of 2,000 black people was disrupted by a mob of whites, who killed four black people and wounded 54 in the Eutaw riot.^[4] Black people were intimidated and stayed home from the polls, with Democratic white voters in Greene County and elsewhere taking the state for Lindsay.^[5]

He died in Tuscumbia, Alabama on February 13, 1902.^[2]

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