MacDonald Gallion [SEP] position held
MacDonald Gallion
MacDonald Gallion (April 5, 1913 – August 11, 2007) served as the Attorney General of Alabama for two non-consecutive terms from 1959 until 1963 and again from 1967 until 1971.
Gallion was born in 1913 in Montgomery. He attended Lakeview Grammar School, Paul Hyne and Phillips High Schools in Birmingham. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Gallion attended the University of Alabama from 1931 until 1937, when he received his law degree. He then began the practice of law.
Judge Walter B. Jones and State Attorney General MacDonald Gallion arrived to take charge. Their primary concern was not to stop the riot or arrest Klansmen, but to read Judge Jones' injunction to the nearly unconscious Freedom Riders. At that point, Mann called for his state troopers whom he had stationed several blocks away. Their arrival restored order to the terminal.'"
Later life.
Following Patterson's administration in 1963, Mann was interviewed and considered for the position of police chief of Trenton, New Jersey, and