Located on a ridge that divides the Chattahoochee and Tallapoosa River basins, LaFayette, the county seat of Chambers County, was named to honor Revolutionary War hero French general Marquis de Lafayette. It became part of what is now Alabama through the 1832 Treaty of Cusseta, in which the Creek Indian Nation was forced to cede all of its remaining lands in Alabama. LaFayette was home to senators Thomas Heflin and Claude Pepper, NFL player Dave Butz, and boxing heavyweight champion Joe Louis. Noted nineteenth-century humorist Johnson Jones Hooper began his literary career as the editor of LaFayette’s East Alabamian newspaper.