17th Mississippi Legislature

17th Mississippi Legislature
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Overview
Legislative body	Mississippi Legislature
Jurisdiction	Mississippi,   United States
Meeting place	Jackson, Mississippi
Term	November 18, 1833 (1833-11-18) – January 30, 1835 (1835-01-30)
Mississippi State Senate
President	Parmenas Briscoe
Mississippi House of Representatives
Speaker	Adam L. Bingaman
Sessions
1st November 18, 1833 (1833-11-18) – December 25, 1833 (1833-12-25) 2nd January 19, 1835 (1835-01-19) – January 30, 1835 (1835-01-30)

The 17th Mississippi Legislature met in two sessions: a regular session between November 18, 1833 and December 25, 1833; ^{[1] [2]} and a called session between January 19, 1835, and January 30, 1835. ^{[3] [4]}

Senate

Parmenas Briscoe was elected President of the Senate. ^[2] John P. Gilbert was elected Secretary and Major Craft was elected Door-Keeper. ^[2]

County District	Senator Name
Adams	Fountain Winston (Regular)
	John A. Quitman (Called)
Wilkinson	John Henderson (Called)
Pike, Marion	Jesse Harper
Amite, Franklin	David Davis
Claiborne	Parmenas Briscoe
Copiah, Jefferson	Solomon Tracey
Hinds	Silas Brown
Monroe, Lowndes, Rankin	Stephen Cocke
Wayne, Greene, Jackson, Hancock, Jones, Perry	Thomas S. Sterling (Regular)
	Thomas P. Falconer (Called)
Warren, Washington	Eugene Magee
Lawrence, Simpson, Covington	Richard A. Hargis
Yazoo, Madison, Holmes	Thomas Land (Called)

House

Adam L. Bingaman was elected Speaker, defeating Russell Williamson. ^[5] Several new members were elected for the Called Session. ^[6] These included representatives from new state counties. ^[6]

County	Representative Name (Main Session)	Representative Name (Called Session)
Adams	Adam L. Bingaman
	William Vannerson
Amite	William Van Norman
	Morgan Davis
Carroll		Greenwood Leflore
Choctaw		William Peery
Claiborne	James H. Maury
	Thomas M. Newell
Clark		Samuel K. Lewis
Copiah	Buckner Harris
	John Beesley	Seth Granberry
Covington	Thomas H. Hopkins
Franklin	Robert Anderson
Green	David McRae	Allen McCaskill
Hancock	Burwell B. Brewer
Hinds	A. Albert Allen	Thomas H. Williams
	William C. Demoss
Holmes	James C. Bole	William W. George
Jackson	Allen McLendon
Jasper		John C. Thomas
Jefferson	Thomas H. Watkins	Malcolm Gilchrist
	Joseph Dunbar
Kemper		Francis Thomas
Lauderdale		Samuel Dale
Lawrence	Samuel Jayne
	Samuel Hunter	Major Newton
Leake		Henry Harper
Lowndes	Tilghman M. Tucker
Marion	Charles D. Learned
Madison	Russel M. Williamson	David M. Fulton
Monroe	Samuel J. Gholson
Neshoba		James Ellis
Noxubee		Thomas D. Wooldridge
Oktibbeha		Henry Gibson
Perry	James Carpenter
Pike	Charles C. Cage	Franklin Love
	James Y. McNabb
Rankin	Oliver C. Dease
Scott		Jeremiah B. White
Simpson	Charles K. Brown
Smith		Emanuel A. Durr
Tallahatchie		Charles Bowen
Warren	William Vick
Washington	Robert P. Shelby
Wayne	John Watts	Alfred Brown
Wilkinson	Gordon D. Boyd
	John W. Gildart
Winston		Jesse M. Field
Yalobusha		Robert Edrington
Yazoo	John M. Sharp
	John Alston

References

1. "House of Representatives Journals, 1798-: Nov 1833 17th Sess — LLMC". discover.llmc.com. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
2. "Mississippi Council/Senate Journals, 1798-: Nov 1833 17th Sess — LLMC". discover.llmc.com. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
3. "Mississippi Council/Senate Journals, 1798-: Jan 1835 Call Sess — LLMC". discover.llmc.com. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
4. "House of Representatives Journals, 1798-: Jan 1835 Call. Sess — LLMC". discover.llmc.com. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
5. "House of Representatives Journals, 1798-: Nov 1833 17th Sess — LLMC". discover.llmc.com. Retrieved 2025-12-22.
6. Representatives, Mississippi Legislature House of (1835). Journal.