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Mobile Mardi Gras Kings

The first recorded king of Mobile Carnival was 1872 - when Daniel Huger was crowned Felix I. From that time until 1919, a loosely organized group of business men worked together for economic and business reasons to encourage up-country residents to come to Mobile for the social season during Carnival. The idea was that these revelers would come in the city with their families and live in local hotels, spend their money and enjoy the parties and balls at Mardi Gras. In 1920, Alfred L. Staples formally organized the Mobile Carnival Association which is still functioning today. King Felix III, the ruling monarch, and his Queen are selected by the Carnival Association almost a year in advance of Fat Tuesday. The debutantes of the season make up the Ladies of the Court. Each Lady selects her escort or Knight. Events begin in November with the Camellia Ball - traditionally held on Thanksgiving weekend. The Mobile Carnival Association Coronation of the Queen on the Saturday before Mardi Gras marks an event National Geographic magazine has described as rivaling that of royal heads of state in Europe. On Lundi Gras- the Monday before Fat Tuesday- King Felix III and his knights arrive from the Isle of Joy via a yacht to Mobile Landing at the foot of Government Street. The Mayor presents King Felix III with the key to the city - beginning King Felix's reign of Mardi Gras misrule. The spectacular Queen's Luncheon that day is followed by the daylong celebration of Fat Tuesday - which routinely draws some two hundred thousand parade-goers to the streets of downtown Mobile. The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association similarly celebrates King Elexis I - who arrives with his royal flotilla before a colorful coronation and crowning of his Queen the Sunday before Mardi Gras.

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LTC Peter Francis Alba

13 Feb 1833 – 23 Dec 1915

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Conrad Paterson Armbrecht

1 Dec 1898 – 15 Jun 1986

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Section 1

Sir Arthur Shirley Benn

20 Dec 1858 – 13 Jun 1937

Hanwell, London Borough of Ealing, Greater London, England

Edwin E Bernheimer

15 Mar 1870 – 30 Jul 1942

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Jacob Phinizy Billups

28 Sep 1849 – 15 Jun 1889

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: A-Main, Range E

Rollin Broughton

5 Nov 1886 – 5 May 1958

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Section 1

Orville Franklin Cawthon Jr.

1869 – 19 Nov 1962

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 8-Lot 57

Norborne Robinson Clarke

5 Sep 1863 – 4 May 1936

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Sec 12

John Taylor Cochrane Jr.

21 Jan 1900 – 14 Dec 1992

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Sec 51

George A Creary

7 Jul 1886 – 26 Jan 1960

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Henry Hall Jr.

24 Aug 1893 – 6 Jun 1954

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Section 14

Carl J Holzborn

10 Feb 1883 – 13 Apr 1960

Atmore, Escambia County, Alabama, USA

Walter Greyson Horn

21 Apr 1872 – 13 Aug 1935

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 22-Lot 35

Daniel Elliott Huger

30 Nov 1836 – 15 Feb 1904

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 28-Lot 145

Clifton Clarke Inge

1 Jan 1902 – 5 Jan 1945

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 27-Lot 69

Francis Harrison Inge

20 May 1902 – 9 Apr 1959

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 12-Lot 157/158

Francis James Inge

1871 – 1938

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Square 12-Lot 157

Francis Marion Inge

23 May 1884 – 13 Jan 1954

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Section 1

James Washington Lott

1845 – 1896

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

Plot info: Range I-Lot 8

Jex Howard Luce

10 Sep 1889 – 12 Mar 1958

Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA

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