| Territory of Alabama | |||||||||
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| Organized incorporated territory of United States | |||||||||
| 1817–1819 | |||||||||
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| Capital | St. Stephens | ||||||||
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| • Type | Organized incorporated territory | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1817–1819 | William Wyatt Bibb | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | December 10, 1817[1] 1817 | ||||||||
| December 14, 1819[1] 1819 | |||||||||
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The Territory of Alabama (sometimes Alabama Territory) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. The Alabama Territory was carved from the Mississippi Territory on August 15, 1817[2] and lasted until December 14, 1819, when it was admitted to the Union as the twenty-second state.