Neshoba County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census,the population was 29,087. Its county seat is Philadelphia.
Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County,Mississippi,United States. The population was 7,118 at the 2020 census.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw people,and the only one in the state of Mississippi. On April 20,1945,this tribe was organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Their reservation included lands in Neshoba,Leake,Newton,Scott,Jones,Attala,Kemper,and Winston counties. The Mississippi Choctaw regained stewardship of their mother mound,Nanih Waiya mounds and cave in 2008. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw have declared August 18 as a tribal holiday to celebrate their regaining control of the sacred site. The other two Choctaw groups are the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,the third largest tribe in the United States,and the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians,located in Louisiana.
The Mississippi Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Mississippi. The party headquarters is located in Jackson,Mississippi.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician and attorney who has been the lieutenant governor of Mississippi since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020,he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
William Arthur Winstead was a farmer and politician,elected as U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 5th and 4th congressional districts,serving from 1943 to 1965. He surprisingly lost the 1964 election by a substantial margin,when his Republican opponent,Prentiss Walker,benefited from voters supporting Barry Goldwater in his presidential campaign in the state.
On August 3,1980,presidential candidate Ronald Reagan appeared at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County,Mississippi,to give a speech on states' rights. The location,which was near the site of the 1964 murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner was,according to critics,evidence of racial bias.
James A. Young is an American politician,who was elected mayor of Philadelphia,Mississippi in May 2009. His election was especially noted as he is the first African-American mayor of the city,which was previously best known for the murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
Billy Nicholson is an American politician and former insurance agent from Mississippi. He served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives 2000 to 2012 for the 78th district. In February 2009,he changed his party affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate. Incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran,first elected in 1978,ran for re-election to a seventh term. Primary elections were held on June 3,2014.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Mississippi on November 3,2015. All of Mississippi's executive officers were up for election. Primary elections were held on August 4,2015,with primary runoffs to be held on August 25,2015 if no candidate received a majority in the primary. The filing deadline for primary ballot access was February 27.
James Andrew Gipson is an American attorney and politician who has served as the Mississippi Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner since 2018. A member of the Republican Party,Gipson was appointed to the position by Governor Phil Bryant,succeeding Cindy Hyde-Smith,who was appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate. He was elected to a full term in 2019 with 59% of the vote and won reelection in 2023 with 58% of the vote.
Jenifer Ann Burrage Branning is an American lawyer and politician who is a justice-elect of the Mississippi Supreme Court. She has been serving as a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate since January 2016,representing the 18th District.
The 2011 Philadelphia,Mississippi Tornado was an extremely powerful and fast-moving multi-vortex tornado that touched down in eastern Mississippi on the afternoon of April 27,2011. Part of the historic 2011 Super Outbreak,the largest tornado outbreak on record,this was the first of four EF5 tornadoes to touch down that day and the first such storm in Mississippi since the 1966 Candlestick Park tornado. While on the ground for 30 minutes,it traveled along a 28.28-mile (45.51 km) path through four counties,leaving behind three deaths,eight injuries,and $1.1 million in damage.
The 1976 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 2,1976. The Democratic Party candidate Jimmy Carter won the state of Mississippi. He narrowly won the state with 49.56% of the vote,and all seven of the state's electors were pledged to Carter.
The 1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 3,1964,as part of the 1964 United States presidential election,which was held on that day throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose seven electors,or representatives to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
The 1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4,1952,as part of the United States presidential election of 1952. The Democratic Party candidate,Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois,won the state of Mississippi over Dwight D. Eisenhower,the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and General of the Army by a margin of 59,600 votes,or 20.88 percentage points. Eisenhower went on to win the election nationally,with 442 electoral votes and a commanding 10.9 percent lead over Stevenson in the popular vote.
The 1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 5,1968. Mississippi voters chose seven electors,or representatives to the Electoral College,who voted for President and Vice-President. During the 1960s,the Civil Rights Movement dictated Mississippi's politics,with effectively the entire white population vehemently opposed to federal policies of racial desegregation and black voting rights. In 1960,the state had been narrowly captured by a slate of unpledged Democratic electors,but in 1964 universal white opposition to the Civil Rights Act and negligible black voter registration meant that white Mississippians turned almost unanimously to Republican Barry Goldwater. Goldwater's support for "constitutional government and local self-rule" meant that the absence from the ballot of "states' rights" parties or unpledged electors was unimportant. The Arizona Senator was one of only six Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act,and so the small electorate of Mississippi supported him almost unanimously.
Shelton Erskine "Buck" Bounds was an American farmer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served two terms on the Philadelphia,Mississippi board of aldermen and one term in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He ran for state senate in 1999 but lost to state Democratic chair Gloria Williamson in the primary. His son,C. Scott Bounds,currently serves in the legislature as a Republican,after he switched parties in 2010.
Earl Stribling Richardson was a Democratic Mississippi lawyer and politician from Neshoba County. He represented the state's 19th district in the Mississippi State Senate from 1916 to 1920 and from 1932 to 1936,and the 17th district from 1940 to his death in 1943. He also represented Neshoba County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940.
