Raymond is a city in Hinds County,Mississippi,United States. As of the 2010 census,the city population was 1,933. Raymond is one of two county seats of Hinds County and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II was an American politician,diplomat,and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Mississippi in both houses of Congress,served as the United States Secretary of the Interior,and was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He also served as an official in the Confederate States of America.
Lewis Cass was an American military officer,politician,and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents,Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty,which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery.
Sidney Breese,a lawyer,soldier,author and jurist born in New York,became an early Illinois pioneer and represented the state in the United States Senate as well as served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives,and has been called "father of the Illinois Central Railroad".
Henry Lee Myers was a United States Senator from Montana.
Thomas Banks Cabaniss was a United States Representative from Georgia.
Paine (Payne) Page Prim was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 6th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving in that role from three times between 1864 and 1878. Prim served on Oregon’s highest court for 21 years. Prim was the first graduate of Cumberland University's law school,and a participant at the Oregon Constitutional Convention.
David C. Dickson was a state legislator,Mississippi Secretary of State,Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi and a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
The 2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi was held on November 4,2008. This election was held on the same day of Thad Cochran's re-election bid in the 2008 United States Senate election in Mississippi. The winner of this special election served the rest of the Senate term,which ended in January 2013. Unlike most Senate elections,this was a non-partisan election in which the candidate who got a majority of the vote won,and if the first-place candidate did not get 50%,a runoff election with the top two candidates would have been held. In the election,no run-off was necessary as Republican nominee and incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker won election to finish the term.
Claude Rodman Porter was an American politician. He served on the Iowa General Assembly,served as a United States Attorney,and was perennial Democratic runner-up to Republican victors in three races for Iowa governor and six races for U.S. senator. In an era in which Republicans in Iowa won so often that Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver remarked that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist," Porter twice came closer to winning the governorship than all but one other Democratic candidate of that era. He later served as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for eighteen years.
Powhatan Ellis was a United States Senator from Mississippi and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi.
Albert Asahel Bliss was a Whig politician from the U.S. State of Ohio. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives and was the Ohio State Treasurer for five years.
Archibald Loudon Snowden was an American politician and diplomat during the late 19th century.
George Washington Gayles was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He was in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and to the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886. He was a candidate for United States House of Representatives in 1892,but received only 6% of the vote due to the voter suppression laws of that period. He was also a noted Baptist minister and was known as the "Father of the Convention" of African American Baptists in Mississippi.
Ramsey Wharton was an American politician and the mayor of Jackson,Mississippi,from 1897 to 1899 and from January 18,1905 to November 1908. He also was in the Mississippi Senate,representing the 12th district,from 1900 to 1904. He was a Democrat.
Barry W. Benson was the Mississippi Secretary of State from 1835 to his death. He was a Democrat.
Walter Nesbit Taylor was an American educator and a Mississippi state senator,representing the state's 12th district as a Democrat,from 1924 to 1936.
Henry C. Myers was a Democratic Mississippi politician and the 26th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1878 to 1886.
Kinloch Falconer was a newspaper editor,officer in the Confederate Army,lawyer,and the 24th Mississippi Secretary of State.
Charles Albert Brougher was an American politician. He was the 14th and 16th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1860 to 1865 and 1865to 1869.
