- Mississippi Delegation
United States Nineteenth Amendment and Edmunds Tucker Act
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution secured the right to vote to women.
Mississippi Delegation
This is one of the 63 delegations in the convention, accounting for 27 of 1451 people who took part.
Members (27):
| Name | Visualize | Details | Delegations |
|---|---|---|---|
| John M. Allen | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| E. Barksdale | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| F. G. Barry | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Blanche Bruce | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| T. C. Catchings | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| James R. Chalmers | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| James W. Collier | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| James Z. George | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Pat Harrison | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Charles E. Hooker | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Benjamin G. Humphreys II | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Paul B. Johnson, Sr. | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Visualize | (September 17, 1825 — January 23, 1893) Lamar was a lawyer, professor of mathematics, judge, and politician. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was born in Putnam County, Georgia and moved to Mississippi in 1849. He graduated from Emory College in Oxford, George and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He then practiced law and worked as a professor of mathematics at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Lamar was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served during the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Congresses and retired in December 1860 in order to join the secession convention of Mississippi. Lamar drafted the Mississippi ordnance of secession and served as a diplomat for the Confederacy to Russia, France, and England. He was part of the State constitutional conventions in 1865, 1868, 1875, 1877, and 1881. Lamar was elected as a Senator to the United States Congress and served during the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congresses from 1873 to 1877, and again from 1876 to 1885. After serving in Congress, he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Grover Cleveland and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1888. To round out service in all three branches of government, Lamar was appointed as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1888. He served as a Supreme Court justice until his death in 1893. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000030] | Mississippi Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Vannoy H. Manning | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Hernando Money | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| J. B. Morgan | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Henry L. Murdrow | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Percy E. Quin | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Otho R. Singleton | Visualize | (October 14, 1814 — January 11, 1889) Otho Robards Singleton, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., October 14, 1814; attended the common schools; was graduated from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., and from the law department of the University of Lexington; was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Canton, Madison County, Miss.; member of the State house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; served in the State senate 1848-1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, until January 12, 1861, when he withdrew; Representative from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress 1861-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886; died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1889; interment in Canton Cemetery, Canton, Madison County, Miss. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000445] | Mississippi Delegation (The Road to Civil War) , Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Thomas U. Sisson | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Hubert D. Stephens | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| H. S. Van Eatson | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| James K. Vardaman | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| William Webb Venable | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| E. C. Walthall | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |
| John Sharp Williams | Visualize | None | Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation) |