James "Big Jim" Folsom brandishes a mop and a bucket of soap on the campaign trail in 1946 as he promised to clean up Alabama politics if elected governor.
"Big Jim" Folsom Campaign 1946
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Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History
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