Franklin Potts Glass Sr 1854 1934 Hi I came across a newspaper publisher from Alabama Franklin Potts Glass Sr 1858 1934 What made this interesting was that an United States Senator from Alabama died in office in 1913 The Governor appointed Glass to the seat However in March 1914 the United States Senate refused to seat him by one vote because Alabama state law required the Governor of Alabama to call a special election to fill the Senate seat The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was just ratified allowing popular vote of the United States Senate instead of the state legislatures electing the senators I thought you might be interested Thanks