Ellis Phelan
Ellis Phelan served as the 20th Secretary of State of Alabama from 1882 to 1885.
Phelan graduated from the University of Alabama then entered the Confederate [States Army]. He was clerk of the Alabama [House of Representatives] from 1870 to 1877 and in 1890, he was elected circuit judge.
He married his first wife in 1870 and married his second wife in 1884.