BIBB, William Wyatt, governor of Alabama, born in Virginia, 1 October 1780; died near Fort Jackson, Alabama, 9 July 1820. He was the son of Captain William Bibb, was graduated at William and Mary College, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Maryland in 1801. Removing to Georgia, he was a member successively of the two branches of the legislature. He was a member of congress from 1807 till 1813, when he was chosen to the United States senate, and retained his seat there until 1816. He removed to Alabama, then a territory, and was governor in 1817-'9, when it was admitted as a state, and he was elected as its first executive. He died while in office, and his son, Thomas Bibb, succeeded him as governor, 1820-'1.