On September 22, 2011, the Tallapoosa County Narcotics Task Force along with the Crime Interdiction Task Force, executed felony arrest warrants during a traffic stop in Alexander City. For the past several months, the Task Force has been receiving information, in reference to a mid level marijuana distributor. Investigators began making controlled buys from the suspect and on Thursday stopped a car he was driving. The suspect tossed an ounce of marijuana out the car window during the stop, and investigators seized $636 in cash. Later investigators went back to the suspected residence of the driver and recovered approximately 3.4 pounds of mid grade marijuana, $300 in cash, electronic scales and baggies.

September 20-21, 1819: The first general election for governor, members of the U.S. Congress, legislators, court clerks, and sheriffs is held as specified by the Constitution of 1819. Held on the third Monday and following Tuesday of September, the voters elected William Wyatt Bibb as the state’s first governor.

Information Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History

September 19, 1953: More than thirty years after it became law, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, is ratified by the Alabama legislature. Although Alabama complied with the provisions of the amendment as soon as it went into effect in 1920, the 1953 legislature wanted "to record its approval of extending the right of suffrage to women."

Information Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History