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We lost some good ones
As is my custom for the past 21 years, my year end column illuminates Alabama political luminaries that passed away this year. We lost some good ones. Former State Senator and Lt. Governor George McMillan passed away in Birmingham at 81. George was a vivacious, delightful gentleman, who never met a stranger. I never knew anyone who ever met George that did not like him. He began his meteoric political career at an early age. He was elected to the State Senate from Jefferson County in 1974 and was elected lieutenant governor in 1978. He lost a razor-thin election to...