William Thad Cochran was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator for Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A Republican,he previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978.
William A. Allain was an American politician and lawyer who held office as the 59th governor of Mississippi as a Democrat from 1984 to 1988. Born in Adams County,Mississippi,he attended the University of Notre Dame and received a law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1948.
Richard Henderson Molpus Jr. is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1984 until 1996. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1995 against Republican incumbent Kirk Fordice. He later established a timberland management company. Throughout his public life he has pushed for reforms to support public education and promote racial reconciliation.
WDBD is a television station in Jackson,Mississippi,United States,affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by American Spirit Media,which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Media,owner of NBC affiliate WLBT,for the provision of certain services;it is also sister to Vicksburg-licensed MyNetworkTV outlet WLOO. Although technically owned by Tougaloo College,WLOO is actually controlled by American Spirit through a separate joint sales agreement (JSA),with Gray providing limited engineering support. The stations share studios on South Jefferson Street in downtown Jackson,while WDBD's transmitter is located on Thigpen Road southeast of Raymond,Mississippi.
Edythe Evelyn Gandy was an American attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980. A Democrat who held several public offices throughout her career,she was the first woman elected to a statewide constitutional office in Mississippi. Born in Hattiesburg,she attended the University of Mississippi School of Law as the only woman in her class. Following graduation,she took a job as a research assistant for United States Senator Theodore Bilbo. She briefly practiced law before being elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives,where she served from 1948 to 1952. Defeated for re-election,she worked as director of the Division of Legal Services in the State Department of Public Welfare and Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi until she was elected State Treasurer of Mississippi in 1959.
Patrick Hayes "Pete" Johnson Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who served as State Auditor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992. Originally a Democrat,he joined the Republican Party in 1989,thus becoming the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. He mounted an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1991. He served as Federal Co-Chairman of the Delta Regional Authority from 2002 to 2011.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician and attorney who has been the lieutenant governor of Mississippi since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020,he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
Grand Gulf is a ghost town in Claiborne County,Mississippi,United States.
Robert Montgomery Dearing was an American politician,educator,and businessman who served in the Mississippi Senate as a member of the Democratic Party.
Seven segments of the historic Natchez Trace are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Also there are additional NRHP-listed structures and other sites along the Natchez Trace,which served the travelers of the trace and survive from the era of its active use.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson,Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. Its mission is to document,exhibit the history of,and educate the public about the American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. state of Mississippi between 1945 and 1970. The museum secured $20 million in funding from the Mississippi Legislature in April 2011 after Governor Haley Barbour testified in favor of its funding. Ground was broken in 2013,and the museum opened on December 9,2017. The museum is administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Abijah Hunt (1762–1811) was an American merchant,planter,slave trader,and banker in the Natchez District.
The 2019 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 5,2019,to choose the next governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Governor Phil Bryant was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits. The Democratic Party nominated incumbent Attorney General Jim Hood,the only Democrat holding statewide office in Mississippi;the Republican Party nominated incumbent Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves. In the general election,Reeves defeated Hood by a margin of 5.08%,with Reeves significantly underperforming Donald Trump,who won the state by 17 points in 2016.
Barbara Anita Blackmon is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Mississippi State Senate,representing the 21st district from 1992 to 2004 and from 2016 to 2024. She was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2003,losing to Amy Tuck.
Mississippi Highway 389 is a state highway that runs from south to north in the U.S. State of Mississippi. MS 389 currently exists in two sections. The southern section begins at MS 182 in Starkville. The road travels north out of the city,and crosses U.S. Route 82 and MS 15. North of Starkville,the route continues northwestwards and ends at the Oktibbeha–Clay county line south of Pheba. The northern section starts at MS 46 west of Montpelier,and it travels north to cross the Natchez Trace Parkway in Chickasaw County. MS 389 ends at MS 8 in Houston.
Eliza Ann Dupuy was a littérateur and pioneer author of the Southern United States. She is remembered as the first woman of Mississippi to earn her living as a writer.
Steven A. Patterson is an American lawyer and politician who served as State Auditor of Mississippi from 1992 to 1996. A Democrat,he worked on several political campaigns in the 1970s and served as treasurer for Bill Allain's 1983 gubernatorial campaign. With Allain's backing,Patterson assumed the chairmanship of the Mississippi Democratic Party,which he held until 1987.
