David Ronald Musgrove is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 62nd governor of Mississippi from 2000 to 2004. A Democrat, he previously served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 1996 to 2000. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2008 special election for one of Mississippi's seats in the United States Senate, losing to incumbent Senator Roger Wicker. Musgrove is a principal at a public affairs consulting firm, Politics. In 2014, he became founding partner of a new law firm in Jackson, Mississippi, Musgrove/Smith Law.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was an American Democratic politician from Alabama who served in the state legislature and US Congress. He also served as an officer of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. He was a slave owner and supported the Southern cause.
William Madison Whittington was an American politician from Mississippi. Whittington was a Representative to the 69th United States Congress in 1925, and the twelve succeeding Congresses as a Democrat. In Congress, his nickname was "Mr. Flood Control."
Jabez Bowen, Sr. was an American shipper, slave trader and politician. He was a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War, and served as Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician serving as the 33rd lieutenant governor of Mississippi, since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020, he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
Otho Robards Singleton was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi and a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.
William J. McCoy was an American farmer and Democratic politician from Rienzi, Mississippi. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi.
Jabez or Jabes is a character in the biblical Books of Chronicles. Jabez may also refer to:
Sydney McCain Smith was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1909 to 1948, and its chief justice starting in 1912. His 39-year tenure made him "by far the longest-serving Mississippi Supreme Court justice".
Eunice P. Shadd, also known as Eunice Lindsay, was an American-Canadian physician born in Pennsylvania and raised in Chatham, Ontario. She was one of the first black women to graduate from Howard University College of Medicine.
Jabez M. Smith was a state legislator in Arkansas. He was a state senator in the Arkansas Senate from 1866-1867. He and his fellow senators were photographed and included in a composite by T. W. Bankes. He chaired the select committee.
Dr. Francis Marion Sheppard was a Mississippi politician and a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1900 to 1904, and the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1896 to 1900. He was a physician by career.
William Hemingway was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1901 to 1905, and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1920. He was a Democrat.
Francis Marion Johnson was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate and of the Mississippi House of Representatives in the early 20th century.
Robert Elisha Foster was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Issaquena County, from 1912 to his death.
Elias Alford Rowan was a longtime Mississippi state legislator from Copiah County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Columbus Wesley Walley was a Democratic Mississippi state senator, representing the state's 2nd senatorial district from 1916 to 1920.
Edgar Moore Lane was an American lawyer, jurist, and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi legislature from Smith County and a Mississippi circuit court judge.
John Alexander Yeager was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He represented Lamar County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1932.
Wilbur Fisk Hyer was an American politician, physician, and Mississippi state legislator in the 1870s and 1880s.
