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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Alabama divorcee who sued Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom as the father of her two-year-old-announced that she was now "tired of the whole mess," and asked permission to drop the suit. "Your petitioner has come to realize," she explained after a few months' thought, "that she has been . . . used as a political tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, defeated in the Alabama primaries, suffered another setback; a judge refused to dismiss the paternity suit against him, ordered it tried on its merits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Married. James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 39, governor of Alabama; and Jamelle Moore, 21, secretary in the State Highway Department; in Rockford, Ala. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Alabamans knew that a coon as big as Kissin' Jim couldn't stay holed up forever. What would happen next? As they waited for him to burst out of the brush, nobody seemed to know whether the voters would boo, cheer, or just gawk as though they had seen a pink giraffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: A Man Was the Cause of It All | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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