Alligator resting on bank: Homosassa Springs, Florida (19--) The largest alligator officially recorded in Florida was 17 feet, 5 inches, while the largest ever was 19 feet, three inches, reported in Louisiana.
https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/alligators/
The Stokes alligator has been mounted and put on display at the Montgomery Zoo's Mann Wildlife Learning Museum. 1  Family: The alligator was captured last August by five members of the Stokes family. 2  Big beast: The alligator is on display at the Montgomery Zoo's Mann Wildlife Learning Museum.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094393/World-s-biggest-American-alligator-caught-Alabama-family-goes-displa.html
It is the new record for the largest alligator ever caught by hunters in the Mississippi hunt, in which just 923 people are given permits and allowed to kill two of the animals each. Click here to see a gallery of images from this year's multi-record hunt.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-alligator-hunters-break-record-for-biggest-beast-ever-caught-three-times-in-a-week-8809474.html
It measured 10ft and weighed 295.3 pounds. It is now the current length and weight record for a female alligator taken by a hunter in a Mississippi alligator hunting season. Hunters in Mississippi have broken the state’s record for the biggest alligator ever caught – and have done so three times in one week. The annual seven day hunting season, described as crucial by the state’s wildlife department to control alligator populations, clearly couldn’t come soon enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-alligator-hunters-break-record-for-biggest-beast-ever-caught-three-times-in-a-week-8809474.html
The Alabama Alligator (The Stokes Alligator) – 15 feet and 9 inches (4.8 meters) Five members of the Stokes family captured and killed a giant alligator at the Alabama river on August 16, 2014, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds (~458.8 kg). Most sources pick this one as the largest alligator ever recorded. It can be viewed in the Mann Wildlife Learning Museum, Montgomery. Mandy Stokes, who shot dead the animal, has said the the alligator was 24 – 28 years old, which was determined from an analysis of its leg bone.
https://ourplnt.com/largest-alligator-ever-measured/
ABC News. Record-Setting Alligator Makes Its Public Debut. From right, John Stokes and his wife Mandy Stokes and their niece Savannah Jenkins, 17, and nephew Parker Jenkins, 15, with their father, Kevin Jenkins, stand behind their world record American alligator on display at the Mann Museum in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, May 22, 2015.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/record-setting-alligator-makes-public-debut/story?id=31253732
The alligator that set a world record was ready for its close-up. The Stokes alligator, which measures 15 feet and 9 inches, was unveiled Friday in its full-body mount at the Mann Wildlife Learning Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, Al.com reports. It eclipsed the previous mark set by Keith Fancher's 14-foot, 2-inch, 838-pound find.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/record-setting-alligator-makes-public-debut/story?id=31253732
It was about 10 hours after she and husband John Stokes, brother-in-law Kevin Jenkins and his children Savannah, 16, and Parker, 14, brought a monster alligator to the check-in station at Roland Cooper State Park near Camden in Wilcox County.
http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2014/08/new_state_record_potential_wor.html
Alligator resting on bank: Homosassa Springs, Florida (19--) Image Number: DL0914. The largest alligator officially recorded in Florida was 17 feet, 5 inches, while the largest ever was 19 feet, three inches, reported in Louisiana.
https://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/photo_exhibits/alligators/
Family: The alligator was captured last August by five members of the Stokes family. They are (from left to right) Kevin Jenkins, his children Savannah Jenkins and Parker Jenkins, and couple John and Mandy Stokes. Big beast: The alligator is on display at the Montgomery Zoo's Mann Wildlife Learning Museum. Massive: The mammoth beast measured 15 feet and 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds. Achievement: Mandy Stokes (second from right) has said the alligator was 24 - 28 years old, based on an analysis of its leg bone.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094393/World-s-biggest-American-alligator-caught-Alabama-family-goes-displa.html
biggest documented alligator
The biggest documented alligator ever reported was 19 feet three inches in Louisiana. The biggest documented alligator was 19 feet, three inches, reported in Louisiana.