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- ↑ "State Ledger, December 17, 1887 – Against All Odds" . Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- 1 2 "The Legislature of 1888". The Clarion-Ledger. 23 November 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- 1 2 "D. H. Hopson – Against All Odds".
- ↑ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (April 4, 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. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
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