Jacob McGavock Dickinson was United States Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1911. He was succeeded by Henry L. Stimson. He was an attorney,politician,and businessman in Nashville,Tennessee,where he also taught at Nashville University. He came to have a national role after moving to Chicago,Illinois,in 1899.
Edward Cary Walthall was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Mississippi.
Haywood Yancey Riddle was an American politician,attorney,and educator who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th congressional district.
Josiah Patterson was a Confederate soldier,political figure,and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th District of Tennessee.
John Mills Allen,known as "Private John" Allen,was an American lawyer and Confederate soldier during the Civil War. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives for eight consecutive terms from Mississippi from 1885 to 1901.
James Ronald Chalmers was an American politician and senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry and cavalry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Charles Chester Reid was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1901 to 1911.
Henderson Madison Jacoway was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1911 to 1923.
John Daniel Clardy was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Lewis Porter Featherstone was an American planter and farm activist who served for one year as a Labor Party U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1890 to 1891.
Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Chapman Levy Anderson was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi,serving two terms from 1887 to 1891. A Confederate Army veteran,he was a member of the Democratic Party.
James Grafton Spencer was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
George Emrick Harris was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Patrick Henry was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi,the uncle of Pat Henry (1861-1933).
Thomas Jefferson Strait was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Paul Carrington Edmunds was a Virginia lawyer,Confederate soldier and politician who served in the Virginia Senate and in the U.S. representative from Virginia.
Scott Field was an American politician who represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives from 1903–1907.
Judge Jeremiah Watkins Clapp was a slave-owning American lawyer,planter and politician. He owned cotton plantations in Mississippi and Arkansas,and he served as a judge in the Mississippi legislature from 1856 to 1858. An advocate of the Confederate States of America,he served in the First Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864. During the American Civil War,he was in charge of Confederate cotton in Mississippi as well as sections of Alabama and Louisiana. After the war,he moved to Memphis,Tennessee,and he served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1878 to 1880.
Charles Bowen Howry was a Mississippi attorney and politician. He was a veteran of the Confederate States Army,a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives,United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi and a judge of the Court of Claims.
