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Lauderdale County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census,the population was 72,984. The county seat is Meridian. The county is named for Colonel James Lauderdale,who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Lauderdale County is included in the Meridian,MS Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Meridian is the eighth most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi,with a population of 41,148 at the 2010 census and an estimated population in 2018 of 36,347. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian,Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Along major highways,the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson;154 mi (248 km) southwest of Birmingham,Alabama;202 mi (325 km) northeast of New Orleans,Louisiana;and 231 mi (372 km) southeast of Memphis,Tennessee.
The flag of Mississippi consists of a white magnolia blossom surrounded by 21 stars and the words 'In God We Trust' written below,all put over a blue Canadian pale with two vertical gold borders on a red field. The topmost star is composed of a pattern of five diamonds,an Indigenous symbol;the other 20 stars are white,as Mississippi was the 20th state to join the Union. The flag was adopted on January 11,2021.
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The Meridian race riot of 1871 was a race riot in Meridian,Mississippi in March 1871. It followed the arrest of freedmen accused of inciting riot in a downtown fire,and blacks' organizing for self-defense. Although the local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter had attacked freedmen since the end of the Civil War,generally without punishment,the first local arrest under the 1870 act to suppress the Klan was of a freedman. This angered the black community. During the trial of black leaders,the presiding judge was shot in the courtroom,and a gunfight erupted that killed several people. In the ensuing mob violence,whites killed as many as 30 blacks over the next few days. Democrats drove the Republican mayor from office,and no person was charged or tried in the freedmen's deaths.
Tom Stuart,was a pioneer in the development of the two-party system in the U.S. state of Mississippi. On June 5,1973,he was elected as the first Republican mayor of Meridian,the county seat of Lauderdale County in eastern Mississippi.
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The 2023 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on November 7,2023,to elect the governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican governor Tate Reeves won re-election to a second term,defeating Democratic nominee Brandon Presley. Primary elections were held on August 8. Incumbent Governor Reeves won the Republican nomination,while Presley won the Democratic nomination unopposed.
Betty Jane Long was an American politician and attorney who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1956 to 1984. A member of the Democratic Party,she was one of few women legislators in Mississippi during her time in the House. She chaired several committees and subcommittees,including a subcommittee on the Equal Rights Amendment,which she opposed. After her retirement from the House,Long was appointed to a committee that drafted a proposal for a new Constitution of Mississippi.
Lovie Landrum Gore was an American politician who served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives between 1952 and 1960. She was the Democratic national committeewoman for the state of Mississippi between 1956 and 1960. Gore was a vocal opponent of the civil rights movement,attempting to delay school integration in Mississippi and criticizing desegregation efforts from the national Democratic party.
Gilbert Ellzey Carmichael was an American businessman and politician. Born in Columbia,Mississippi,he attended Texas A&M University and served in the United States Coast Guard during the Korean War,earning a Silver Lifesaving Medal for helping rescue crewmen from a sinking tanker. In June 1950 Carmichael was hired by the Dow Jones &Company to sell its newspaper,The Wall Street Journal. After eight years,he joined a friend in distributing cars in Shreveport,Louisiana. He later became a partner in a car dealership in Meridian,Mississippi,before taking over the business. A member of the Republican Party,he became involved in politics in the 1960s,making two unsuccessful bids for a seat in the Mississippi State Legislature. Carmichael also ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1972 and in 1975 ran for the office of Governor of Mississippi,the first serious Republican contender for the post in decades. He lost a narrow race and made another unsuccessful bid in 1979. He also launched an unsuccessful independent campaign in 1983 to be elected Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. From the 1970s to the 1990s he served on various national transportation advisory boards. He died in 2016.
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- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 31, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Charles Young, Jr". Mississippi House of Representatives. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Your Government Officials" . Meridian, Mississippi: Meridian Star. February 23, 2020. p. I6.
- ↑ "County Court". Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Official Recapitulation 2011 Primary Election" (PDF). Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. August 10, 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Total Votes Reported by County for the 2011 General Election" (PDF). Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Official Recapitulation Primary Election". Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. August 20, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Total Votes Reported by County for the 2015 General Election". Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Democratic Primary Election Results 2019 (Amended)". Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. Archived from the original on August 18, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Official Recapitulation: General Election". Secretary of State. State of Mississippi. November 14, 2019. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- ↑ Brown, Ida; Graham, Bill (April 3, 2016). "Young: Bill 1523 is discriminatory" . Meridian, Mississippi: Meridian Star. pp. A1, A3. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
If we re-enacted the draft and folks said they didn't want to go to war, then Mississippi would consider you unAmerican. But you can walk into a government facility, and people who work in that government facility can deny you service.
- ↑ Kelly, Erin (June 13, 2016). "Most East Mississippi lawmakers say people should decide on flag" . Meridian, Mississippi: Meridian Star. pp. A4. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
We're the only state in the nation that continues to bear the stars and bars and I think we need to change.
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