Nathan Shirley was a state legislator in Mississippi.
He served in the Mississippi Senate from 1874 to 1879. [1] [2] He served as a constable in Chickasaw County [1]
The results of a state senate election between him and J. F. Griffin were disputed. [3]
He served with F. H. Little and the R. O. Reynolds from Chickasaw County. He was succeeded by J. T. Griffin. [4]
Houston is a city and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, in northeastern Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,623 at the 2010 census.
Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.” A section of the city largely along Main Street and Liberty Street has been designated the Pontotoc Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Treaty of Pontotoc Site is also listed on the National Register. The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek, part of U.S. president Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy, ceded millions of acres of Native American lands and relocated the Chicakasaw west of the Mississippi River.
West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee that roughly comprises the western quarter of the state. The region includes 21 counties between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, delineated by state law. Its geography consists primarily of flat lands with rich soil and vast floodplain areas of the Mississippi River. Of the three regions, West Tennessee is the most sharply defined geographically, and is the lowest-lying. It is both the least populous and smallest, in land area, of the three Grand Divisions. Its largest city is Memphis, the state's second most populous city.
Stephen Mallory White was an American attorney and politician from California. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Senator from 1893 to 1899.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states, such as Florida, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
Simon Goodell Griffin was a Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War, farmer, teacher, lawyer and New Hampshire state legislator.
The Choctaw in the American Civil War participated in two major arenas—the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. The Trans-Mississippi had the Choctaw Nation. The Western had the Mississippi Choctaw. The Choctaw Nation had been mostly removed west prior to the War, but the Mississippi Choctaw had remained in the east. Both the Choctaw Nation and the Mississippi Choctaw would ultimately side with the Confederate States of America.
Lochinvar is an antebellum plantation house near Pontotoc, Mississippi built by Robert Gordon c. 1836. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
James Hill was a Republican politician and government official in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, including as Sergeant at Arms and as Speaker, and was Secretary of State of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.
Jesse Snyder Phillips was an American lawyer, politician, and insurance executive from New York.
Francis Marion Abbott was an American railroad officer and politician who founded Abbott, Mississippi. The Clarion-Ledger identified Abbott and Finis H. Little as Radical Republican state senator elects in 1869.
Harrison H. Truhart. was a blacksmith and state legislator in Mississippi serving as a representative from 1872 to 1875. In 1872 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives to represent Holmes County, Mississippi along with Perry Howard and F. Stewart. In 1874, again with Perry Howard and Tenant Weatherly replacing Stewart, he represented Holmes County in the House.
Henry H. Harrison was a minister, shoemaker, teacher, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Chickasaw County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875.
John Wesley Caradine was an American farmer and state legislator from Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875. He was the first state representative for Clay County, Mississippi after it was established in 1871.
Edmund Waring Wakelee was an American lawyer, politician, and utility executive from New Jersey. He served on the New Jersey General Assembly.
Colonel Preston Withers Farrar was an American lawyer and Whig politician. He was the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1848 to his death in 1850. He also served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature.
Reuben Oscar Reynolds was a lawyer and state senator in Mississippi. He represented Monroe County and Chickasaw County in the Mississippi Senate for several terms during and after the Reconstruction era ended.
Freeman E. Franklin was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870.
Hiram Cassedy Sr. was a judge and state legislator in Mississippi. He served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1854 to 1856. He represented Franklin County, Mississippi. He served several terms in the Mississippi House.
Finis H. Little was a state legislator in Mississippi. A Republican, he served during the Reconstruction era. He served with F. M. Abbott from the 22nd District. He served as president pro tem of the state senate and chaired its finance committee.