Southern Company owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional electric operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.
Chief Calligrapher Patricia Blair gets the largest sum: $102,212 a year. It might seem odd that the White House spends more than a quarter of a million dollars on fancy penmanship, but calligraphers have been held in rather high esteem at the White House for years.
The first African American invited to the White House was Frederick Douglas, who was asked to come by Republican President, Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The first to be invited to â¦ an official function was Booker T. Washington. He was invited to a dinner by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. The first African American to be voted into the White House as President of the United States is Democrat, Barack Obama who was elected in 2008.