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Quitman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,223, making it the fifth-least populous county in Mississippi. Its county seat is Marks. The county is named after John A. Quitman, Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 and from 1850 to 1851.
Quitman is a city in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States, along the Chickasawhay River. The population was 2,323 at the 2010 census. Quitman is the county seat of Clarke County.
John Anthony Quitman was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. As President of the Mississippi Senate, he served one month as Acting Governor of Mississippi as a Whig. He was elected Governor in 1850, as a Democrat, and served from January 10, 1850 until his resignation on February 3, 1851, shortly after his arrest for violating U.S. neutrality laws. He was strongly pro-slavery and a leading Fire-Eater.
William Barksdale was a lawyer, newspaper editor, US Representative, slaveholder, and Confederate general in the American Civil War. A staunch secessionist, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg while he led his brigade's attack on Union forces not far from Cemetery Ridge.
Mississippi's 4th congressional district covers the southeastern region of the state. It includes all of Mississippi's Gulf Coast, stretching ninety miles between the Alabama border to the east and the Louisiana border to the west, and extends north into the Pine Belt region. It includes three of Mississippi's four most heavily populated cities: Gulfport, Biloxi, and Hattiesburg. Other major cities within the district include Bay St. Louis, Laurel, and Pascagoula.
Barksdale is an unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi, located southwest of Marks.
George Washington Gayles was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He was in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and to the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886. He was a candidate for United States House of Representatives in 1892, but received only 6% of the vote due to the voter suppression laws of that period. He was also a noted Baptist minister and was known as the "Father of the Convention" of African American Baptists in Mississippi.
Richard F. Abbay was an American politician and a Democratic Mississippi state legislator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Drury Joseph Wall, Jr. was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Amite County, from 1916 to 1920.
George Irby Redditt was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Carroll County, from 1916 to 1920.
Howard Lee Miller was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from Clarke County, serving from 1916 to 1924.
Patrick Claiborne Meagher was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Yazoo County, from 1916 until his death.
Luther Whit Maples was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing George County, from 1916 to 1920.
Walker Wood was an American journalist and politician from Mississippi. He was the 30th Secretary of State of Mississippi, serving from 1926 to 1948.
George Washington Russell was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Copiah County, from 1916 to 1924.
Benjamin King Jr. was a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Copiah County, 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.
Cedric Burnett is a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives. He has represented the state's 9th House district, composed of parts of Coahoma, Quitman, Tate, and Tunica counties, since 2016.
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.
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