Attala County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census,the population was 19,564. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala County is named for Atala,a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-Renéde Chateaubriand.
Ethel is a U.S. town in Attala County,Mississippi. The population was 418 at the 2010 census.
Fielding Lewis Wright was an American politician who served as the 19th Lieutenant Governor and 49th and 50th Governor of Mississippi. During the 1948 presidential election he served as the vice presidential nominee of the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) alongside presidential nominee Strom Thurmond. During his political career he fought to maintain racial segregation,fought with President Harry S. Truman over civil rights legislation,and held other racist views.
Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell was an American politician and lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi,and was previously a Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Deputy from Mississippi to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Aberdeen,Greenville,and Oxford.
The Attala County School District is a public school district based in Attala County,Mississippi (USA).
Jason Niles was a lawyer,newspaper editor,and politician in the United States. He served as mayor and for one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1873 to 1875.
Wiley P. Harris was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Nellah Izora Massey Bailey was an American politician and librarian. She was the first lady of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946 and the Mississippi state tax collector from 1948 to 1956. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the first woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi.
James Carlisle Wasson was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives,representing Attala County,from 1916 to 1920.
William Aylmer Winter was a farmer and a Democratic Mississippi state legislator from Grenada County in the early-to-mid 20th century. He was also the father of the Mississippi governor William Forrest Winter.
David Henry Glass was a longtime Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from Attala County.
George Morgan Govan was an American military officer and Democratic politician from Mississippi. He was the 27th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1886 to 1896.
James Andrew Blount was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1916 to 1917 and from 1944 to 1948. He also was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1948 to 1952.
Hugh McQueen Street was an American businessman and Democratic politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1880,1890 to 1894,and from 1908 to 1912. He was its Speaker in four different stints.
James Franklin McCool was an American Democratic politician and jurist. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1886 and from 1896 to 1900,and was its Speaker during the latter term.
Mississippi Highway 429 (MS 429) is a 21.7-mile-long (34.9 km) highway in the Mississippi counties of Leake and Attala. The highway runs through mostly rural areas of these counties except near its northern terminus where MS 429 heads through the town of Sallis.
Benjamin Franklin Johns was an American Democratic politician and lawyer. He was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1880 to 1882.
