Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census,the population was 34,907. Its county seat is Brookhaven.
Amite County is a county located in the state of Mississippi on its southern border with Louisiana. As of the 2020 census,the population was 12,720. Its county seat is Liberty. The county is named after the Amite River,which runs through the county.
Brookhaven is a small city in Lincoln County,Mississippi,United States,55 miles (89 km) south of the state capital of Jackson. The population was 11,674 people at the 2020 U.S. Census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County. It was named after the town of Brookhaven,New York,by founder Samuel Jayne in 1818.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II was a Confederate soldier,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.
Lamar "Ditney" Smith was an American civil rights figure,African-American farmer,World War I veteran and an organizer of voter registration for African-Americans. In 1955,he was shot dead in broad daylight around 10 a.m. at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven,Mississippi.
Lamar Smith may refer to:
Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Mississippi since 2018. A member of the Republican Party,she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Robert Warren "Bobby" Moak is an American politician and attorney. He is a former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 53rd District,serving from 1984 until 2016. While in office he served as Democratic Leader but is remembered as the main legislative force in a Special Legislative Session after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As Chair of the MS House Gaming Committee,Moak's legislation and abilities help revitalize the gulf-coast and the gaming industry after its destruction by the hurricane allowing casinos to operate on land instead of over water prior to the hurricane. Moak reached across party lines in the legislature and worked with then Governor Haley Barbour to secure the legislation. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
On April 13,1937,Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels,two black men,were lynched in Duck Hill,Mississippi by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper. They had only been legally accused of the crime a few minutes before they were kidnapped from the courthouse,chained to trees,and tortured with a blow torch. Following the torture,McDaniels was shot to death and Townes was burned alive.
Mississippi Highway 569 is a state highway in southwestern Mississippi. The route starts at the Mississippi–Louisiana state line,and it travels northeastward from that point. It intersects MS 48 southwest of Liberty,and MS 569 becomes concurrent with it. Inside Liberty,MS 569 is also concurrent with MS 24 briefly before travelling northeastward out of the city. It continues through Amite County and it ends at U.S. Route 98 in extreme southwestern Lincoln County.
Claude H. Lindsley was an American architect based in Mississippi.
Jason Todd Barrett is an American politician,serving in the Mississippi State Senate from the 39th district since 2020.
Mary Lou Gray Godbold was an American politician and educator. She was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1956 to 1960,succeeding her husband after his death. After she left office,she taught education at the University of Mississippi and was the president of the Mississippi Education Association from 1962 to 1963. A Democrat,she lived in Oxford and represented Lafayette County.
John Alexander Yeager was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He represented Lamar County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1932.
Lamar Quintus Cincinnatus Williams was an American store owner and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi Legislature,representing Newton County,in the early 20th century.
George Elias Denley was an American farmer,teacher,editor,and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1928 to 1932,and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1924.
Noah Webster Overstreet (1888–1973) was an American architect in practice in Jackson,Mississippi from 1912 to 1968. He was a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and received accolades for his career. According to the Mississippi Encyclopedia,few architects had as pronounced an impact on Jackson,Mississippi,the state capitol,in the early twentieth century as Overstreet who "worked for over fifty years,producing a large body of commanding institutional and large-scale commercial work."
