Category: Mississippi

Representative | Democrat | COLMER, WILLIAM MEYERS, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss., February 11, 1890; attended the public schools and Millsaps College at Jackson, Miss.; taught school at Lumberton, Miss., 1914-1917; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1917; during the First World War served as a private… Continue reading William Colmer

Representative | Democrat | WILLIAMS, JOHN SHARP, (grandson of Christopher Harris Williams), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Memphis, Tenn., July 30, 1854; after the death of his parents moved to Yazoo County, Miss.; attended private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University… Continue reading John Sharp Williams

Attorney General | Democrat | HOOKER, CHARLES EDWARD, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Union, Union County, S.C., in 1825; raised in Laurens District, S.C.; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Jackson, Miss.; district attorney of… Continue reading Charles Hooker

Secretary of State | Republican | REVELS, HIRAM RHODES, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., on September 27, 1827; attended Beech Grove Quaker Seminary in Liberty, Ind., Darke County Seminary in Ohio, and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; barber; ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Baltimore, Md., in… Continue reading Hiram Revels

Treasurer | Democrat | Evelyn Gandy on Wikipedia Evelyn Gandy on OurCampaigns.com

Auditor / Comptroller | Republican | Phil Bryant on Wikipedia Phil Bryant on OurCampaigns.com