James Herman Faulkner, Sr.[1] (March 1, 1916 – August 22, 2008)[2][3] was an American newspaper publisher, entrepreneur, politician, and philanthropist.
[4] In 1957 Faulkner joined a group that brought WBCA radio to Bay Minette as well as owning WHEP in Foley.
The pick for Bay Minette's district originally went to Monroeville which received the approval to build the Monroeville campus of the Alabama Southern Community College (originally Patrick Henry Junior College).
Subsequently, Faulkner organized a group to convince the state to build a second junior college in the district at Bay Minette[6] and afterwards a school named for William Lowndes Yancey, an American leader of the Southern secession movement, came into existence.
These included International Paper Container Division, Kaiser Aluminum, Alpine Industries Laboratories, Baldwin Utility Structures, Baldwin Lighting, Eastwood-Neally Company, Colt Industries, Jinan, Holland Industrial Services, Gulf Packaging Company, Cedartown Paper Board Cores, Baldwin Asphalt, Yellow Hammer Building Systems, Barclay, Bay Minette Mills, Baldwin Pole and Piling, Den-Tal-Ez, and Standard Furniture.