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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. pp. 566, 234.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "1928-32 Legislature Facts". Semi-Weekly Journal. 1927-09-24. p. 1. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- 1 2 3 4 "Death of Albert Brown Guynes". Clarion-Ledger. 1929-04-20. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-404-04610-1.
- ↑ "The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana on April 20, 1929 · Page 20". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.