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Mississippi Delegation

This is one of the 50 delegations in the convention, accounting for 13 of 713 people who took part.

Members (13):

Name Visualize Details Delegations
James L. Alcorn Visualize (November 4, 1816 — December 19, 1894) Alcorn was an American politician and lawyer. James Lusk Alcorn was born in Golconda, Illinois and moved to Mississippi in 1844. Prior to 1844, Alcorn lived in Kentucky where he attended public school and graduated from Cumberland College. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives before studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1844. While in Mississippi, he served in various public offices including member of the State House of Representatives (1846, 1856, 1857) and member of the State Senate (1848-1854). Alcorn enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civll War. He presented his credentials to the Thirty-Ninth Congress and was not allowed a seat. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1870 until 1871, when he resigned in order to serve in the United States Senate. Alcorn was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from December 1, 1871 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000079] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Adelbert Ames Visualize (October 31 1835 — April 12, 1933) Ames was a businessman and politician. Adelbert Ames was born in Rockland, Maine and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1861. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War and attained the ranks of lieutenant, brigadier general, breveted general, captain, and lieutenant colonel. After the war, Ames was appointed as the Provisional Governor of Mississippi and was later appointed to command the fourth military district set up by the congressional Reconstruction acts. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-First, Forty-Second, and Forty-Third Congresses from February 23, 1870 until January 10, 1874, when he resigned. After serving in Congress, Ames served as Governor of Mississippi until 1876. He retired from politics in 1876 and engaged in various businesses including the flour business and manufacturing, until his death in 1933. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000172] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Henry W. Barry Visualize (April 1840 — June 7, 1875) Barry was an American politician and lawyer. Henry Barry was born in Schoharie County, New York. He was self-educated and eventually went on to be the principal of the Locust Grove Academy in Kentucky. During the Civil War, Barry served in the Union Army, and organized a regiment of colored troops in Kentucky. After the war, he studied law at Columbian College (now George Washington University) and was admitted to the bar in 1867. That same year he moved to Mississippi and served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867, and also served as a member of the State Senate in 1868. Barry was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000189] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
George E. Harris Visualize (January 6, 1827 — March 19, 1911) Harris was an American politician and lawyer. George Emrick Harris was born in Orange County, North Carolina and moved to Mississippi. There he studied law and was admitted to he bar in 1854. During the Civil War, Harris was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. Harris was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. Harris also served in numerous state public offices including district attorney, State attorney general, and Lieutenant Governor. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000238] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Albert R. Howe Visualize (January 1, 1840 — June 1, 1884) Howe was a cotton planter and politician. Albert Richards Howe was born in Worcester County, Massachusetts in 1840 and moved to Mississippi in 1865. During the Civil War, Howe served in the Union Army as a private and rose through the ranks until he was discharge in 1865. After the war, he moved to Mississippi where he became a cotton planter and served in the Mississippi constitutional convention in 1868 and in the State House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872. Howe was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000850] 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 (This negotiation) , Mississippi Delegation (The Road to Civil War)
John R. Lynch Visualize (September 10, 1847 — November 2, 1939) Lynch was a businessman, photographer, lawyer, and politician. John Roy Lynch was born in Louisiana and moved to Mississippi in 1863, where he and his mother were slaves. After emancipation, Lynch worked as a photographer and attended night school. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1869 to 1873, and was the speaker during the last term of his service. Lynch was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877. He successfully contested the election on of James Chalmers during the Forty-Seventh Congress and served again from April 1882 to March 3, 1883. After serving in Congress, Lynch studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1896. He practiced law in Washington, D. C., until he was appointed a major and paymaster in the Regular Army by President McKinley. He practiced law until his death in 1939. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000533] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
George C. McKee Visualize (October 2, 1837 — November 17, 1890) McKee was an American politician, planter, and lawyer. George Colin McKee was born in Joliet, Illinois and attended Knox College and Lombard College in Illinois. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army with the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Afterwards, he moved to Mississippi where he practiced law and became a planter. McKee was the register in bankruptcy in 1867 and served in the State constitutional convention in 1868. He presented his credentials to the Fortieth Congress but was never admitted to take a seat. He was reelected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000494] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Joseph L. Morphis Visualize (April 17, 1831 — July 29, 1913) Morphis was a planter, trader, and politician. Joseph Lewis Morphis was born in Tennessee in 1831. He received an elementary education and became a planter. In 1859, he was elected a member fo the State House of Representatives, where he served until the start of the Civil War. During the war, Morphis served in the Confederate Army as a captain. In 1863, he moved with his family to Mississippi where he served in the State House of Representatives and was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1865. Morphis was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. After serving in Congress, he was licensed as an Indian trader and worked in that occupation until 1901. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000963] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Jason Niles Visualize (December 19, 1814 — July 7, 1894) Niles was a teacher, lawyer, judge, and politician. Jason Niles was born in Burlington, Vermont and moved to Mississippi in 1851. He graduated from the University of Vermont and became a teacher in Ohio and Tennessee. Niles studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851, when he moved to Mississippi. While practicing law in Mississippi, he also served in the State House of Representatives (1870) and as a delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1851, 1865, and 1868. Before being elected to Congress, Niles was a circuit judge for the thirteenth judicial district from 1871 to 1872. Niles was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/N000107] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Henry R. Pease Visualize (February 19, 1835 — January 2, 1907) Pease was a teacher, lawyer, and politician. Henry Roberts Pease was born in Connecticut tin 1835 and moved to Mississippi after the Civil War. He was a teacher from 1848 to 1859, before studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1859. During the Civil War, Pease served in the Union Army as a private and raised to the rank of captain. After the war, he was appointed to act as superintendent in Louisiana and then in Mississippi. Pease was elected as a Republican during the Forty-Third Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Adelbert Ames. He served in the Senate from February 3, 1874 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000172] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Legrand W. Perce Visualize (June 19, 1836 — March 16, 1911) Perce was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. Legrand Winfield Perce was born in Buffalo, New York in 1836 and moved to Mississippi after the Civil War. Perce graduated from Albany Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law in New York until the Civil War broke out. He served in the Union army and attained the rank of colonel in 1865. After moving to Mississippi, Perce was appointed register in bankruptcy in 1867, and upon the readmission of Mississippi to the Union, was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives. He served in Congress from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. After retiring from Congress, he returned to practicing law and also engaged in real estate business until his death in 1911. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000221] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)
Hiram R. Revels Visualize (September 27, 1827 — January 16, 1901) Revels was a barber, minister, teacher, editor, and politician. Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in North Carolina in 1827. After attending Knox College, Revels worked as a barber and a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland. During the Civil War, he helped recruit African American troops and served as chaplain to the Black regiments. He established African American churches in Mississippi and a school for freedmen in Missouri. After the war, Revels served in the Mississippi State Senate (1870) and was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. Revels was the first Black African American to serve in the United States Senate. He served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1871. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000166] Mississippi Delegation (This negotiation)