Amite County is a county located in the state of Mississippi on its southern border with Louisiana. As of the 2020 census,the population was 12,720. Its county seat is Liberty. The county is named after the Amite River,which runs through the county.
George Wallace Jones was an American frontiersman,entrepreneur,attorney,and judge,was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party,Jones served over ten years in the Senate,from December 7,1848 to March 3,1859. During the American Civil War,he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.
Howell Cobb was an American and later Confederate political figure. A southern Democrat,Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and the speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a secretary of the treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860).
Charles Clark was the 24th governor of Mississippi from 1863 to 1865.
Douglas Hancock Cooper was an American politician,soldier,Indian Agent in what is now Oklahoma,and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
Henry Watkins Allen was a member of the Confederate States Army and the Texian Army as a soldier,also serving as a military leader,politician,writer,slave owner,and sugar cane planter.
William Feimster Tucker was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Henry Gray,Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served in the state legislatures of Mississippi and then Louisiana. During the American Civil War,he was a general in the Confederate Army and subsequently served in the Confederate States Congress.
Jones Mitchell Withers was a United States Army officer who fought during the Mexican–American War and later served as a Confederate major general during the American Civil War. He also was a lawyer,politician,and businessman from the state of Alabama.
Events from the year 1865 in the United States. The American Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate States,beginning the Reconstruction era of U.S. history.
The Confederate Monument in Liberty,Mississippi,United States is a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers from Amite County,Mississippi who died in the American Civil War. Dedicated in 1871,it is the first Confederate monument to be erected in Mississippi and one of the earliest such monuments in the United States. In 1988,it was designated a Mississippi Landmark.
Richard Felix Abbay was an American politician and planter and a Democratic Mississippi state legislator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
John Franklin Cassels was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives,representing Amite County,from 1916 to 1920.
Drury Joseph Wall,Jr. was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives,representing Amite County,from 1916 to 1920.
William Pynchon Stewart Ventress was a Democratic member of the Mississippi state legislature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Hugh McQueen Street was an American businessman and Democratic politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1880,1890 to 1894,and from 1908 to 1912. He was its Speaker in four different stints.
Benjamin Franklin Johns was an American Democratic politician and lawyer. He was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1880 to 1882.
Calvin Brooks Vance was an American planter and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate,from Panola County,from 1878 to 1882,from 1908 to 1912,and from 1916 to 1920.
John Prentiss Carter was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908.
James Henry Jones was an American politician and lawyer. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1896 to 1900. He also was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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