Draft:W. T. Ewing

Whitley Thomas Ewing (above)

or

William Thomas Ewing

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85557256/whitley-thomas-ewing

http://genealogytrails.com/ala/etowah/bios1.html

ran for governor with Republican nomination in 1888

There also appear to be a Dr. Whitley Thomas Ewing? https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85557256/whitley-thomas-ewing

W. T. Ewing was a Republican Party organizer after the American Civil War. Historian Walter Lynwood Fleming described him as one of the "Moulton Leaguers" who first organized the "Radical party" in Alabama in 1865. Fleming identified Ewing with Baine County (now Etowah County).

He fled to northern Alabama from Georgia during the American Civil War. He was a delegate from Baine County at the 1868 Alabama Constitutional Convention and opposed efforts that changed the county's name to Etowah from Baine, in honor of  Confederate military commander David W. Baine who was killed in battle.

He served as Gadsden, Alabama's postmaster.

He finished third in a campaign for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives behind John B. Callis and J. W. Burke.