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Perry County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of 2000 the population was 11,861. Its county seat is Marion.
History
Its name is in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. The Perry County town of Marion was the site of a 1965 killing of a black man by a white state trooper that sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a Barack Obama Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November.
