Raymond is a city in Hinds County,Mississippi,United States. As of the 2010 census,the city population was 1,933;in 2020,its population was 1,960. Raymond is one of two county seats of Hinds County and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College. Raymond is part of the Jackson metropolitan statistical area.
Hiram George Runnels was a U.S. politician from the states of Mississippi and Texas.
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".
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
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 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.
William Henderson Cate was an American politician,lawyer and judge. In 1889 and 1890,he served part of one term as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. He was removed from his seat following an investigation of election fraud before regaining the seat in the subsequent election,serving an additional term from 1891 to 1893.
David C. Dickson Jr. 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 regularly scheduled Class II election. 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 and lawyer. He served in both chambers of the Iowa General Assembly and as a United States Attorney,and was a perennial Democratic Party runner-up to Republican victors in three races for governor of Iowa and six races for U.S. senator. In an era in which the Republican Party was so dominant in Iowa 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 justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court,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 (1812-1893) 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.
George Washington Gayles was an American Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and in the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886. He was a candidate for the 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.
James Hill was a Republican politician and government official in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives,including as Sergeant at Arms and as Speaker,and was Secretary of State of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.
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 1839. 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.
Walker Wood was an American journalist and politician from Mississippi. He was the 30th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1926 to 1948.
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.
Kenneth Wayne Jones is an American businessman and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 2008 to 2016,and an Alderman of Canton,Mississippi,from 1997 to 2008.
