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- 1 2 3 Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. Secretary of State. 1900. p. 178.
- ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 169.
- ↑ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1821). Journal.
- ↑ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 168–169.