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Eugene Welborne
Eugene Bonaparte Welborne (died January 9, 1934) was a constable and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Hinds County, Mississippi, from 1874 to 1875 in the Mississippi House of Representatives and lived in Clinton, Mississippi. He was a Republican. He was born in Clinton, Mississippi, Clinton to Johnson W. Welborn, a wealthy merchant, and Celia Saunders. His date of birth is uncertain with dates of 1849 to circa 1851 given. Welborne was nominated to represent Hinds County at the Republican Convention August 1873 along with Shorter, George, G. Mosley and Peyton. His name was spelled variously including "Wellbourne" and even "Willburn, E B" in a collection of photographs of the Members of the Legislature 1874-75. His brother and descendants used the spelling "Welborn" which was also used for Eugene in some of the legislature records. He served in the state militia under Charles Caldwell (politician), Charles Caldwell, serving as First Lieutenant in Company A of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Bonaparte Welborne
Eugene Bonaparte Welborne (died January 9, 1934) was a constable and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Hinds County, Mississippi, from 1874 to 1875 in the Mississippi House of Representatives and lived in Clinton, Mississippi. He was a Republican. He was born in Clinton, Mississippi, Clinton to Johnson W. Welborn, a wealthy merchant, and Celia Saunders. His date of birth is uncertain with dates of 1849 to circa 1851 given. Welborne was nominated to represent Hinds County at the Republican Convention August 1873 along with Shorter, George, G. Mosley and Peyton. His name was spelled variously including "Wellbourne" and even "Willburn, E B" in a collection of photographs of the Members of the Legislature 1874-75. His brother and descendants used the spelling "Welborn" which was also used for Eugene in some of the legislature records. He served in the state militia under Charles Caldwell (politician), Charles Caldwell, serving as First Lieutenant in Company A of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinds County, Mississippi
Hinds County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. With its county seats (Raymond and the state's capital, Jackson), Hinds is the most populous county in Mississippi with a 2020 census population of 227,742 residents. Hinds County is a central part of the Jackson metropolitan statistical area. It is a professional, educational, business and industrial hub in the state. It is bordered on the northwest by the Big Black River and on the east by the Pearl River. It is one county width away from the Yazoo River and the southern border of the Mississippi Delta. In the 19th century, the rural areas of the county were devoted to cotton plantations worked by enslaved African Americans and depended on agriculture well into the 20th century; from 1877 to 1950, this county had 22 lynchings, the highest number in the state. Mississippi has the highest total number of lynchings of any state. * Clinton Public School District * Hinds County School District (Raymond) * Jackso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi House Of Representatives
The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected for four-year terms. To qualify as a member of the House candidates must be at least 21 years old, a resident of Mississippi for at least four years, and a resident in the district for at least two years. Elections are held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Membership, qualifications, and apportionment Article 4, Section 36 of the Mississippi Constitution specifies that the state legislature must meet for 125 days every four years and 90 days in other years. The Mississippi House of Representatives has the authority to determine rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and expel a member with a two-thirds vote of its membership. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinton, Mississippi
Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi. The population was 28,100 at the 2020 United States census. History Founded in 1823, Clinton was originally known as Mt. Salus, which means "Mountain of health". It was named for the plantation home of Walter Leake, third governor of Mississippi, which was located in Clinton and built in 1812. The road east from Vicksburg was completed to Mount Salus and the federal government located the district land office at Mount Salus in 1822. The original federal survey in 1822 references a spring called "Swafford's Spring" at the site of the town. In 1828, the city changed its name to Clinton in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the former governor of New York who led completion of the Erie Canal. The first road through Mount Salus/Clinton was the Natchez Trace, improved from a centuries-old Native American path. Currently Clinton has three majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Caldwell (politician)
Charles Caldwell (1830 or 1831 – December 25, 1875) was a Reconstruction era political and state militia leader in Mississippi. He held office as a state senator and county commissioner before being assassinated in 1875. A former slave, he was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention. He worked as a blacksmith in Clinton, Mississippi, a small town about 12 miles from Jackson in Hinds County, Mississippi. Political violence in Clinton included the Clinton Riot after a political rally of African Americans. Governor Adelbert Ames authorized a militia in response and put Caldwell in charge of it in Clinton but later backed down and disbanded it. The U.S. Congress reported on election violence and Caldwell's assassination. A plaque commemorates his life. See also * African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era References Further reading * Steven J. Niven, “Caldwell, Charles”. ''African American National Biography'', edited by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinton Riot
Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi. The population was 28,100 at the 2020 United States census. History Founded in 1823, Clinton was originally known as Mt. Salus, which means "Mountain of health". It was named for the plantation home of Walter Leake, third governor of Mississippi, which was located in Clinton and built in 1812. The road east from Vicksburg was completed to Mount Salus and the federal government located the district land office at Mount Salus in 1822. The original federal survey in 1822 references a spring called "Swafford's Spring" at the site of the town. In 1828, the city changed its name to Clinton in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the former governor of New York who led completion of the Erie Canal. The first road through Mount Salus/Clinton was the Natchez Trace, improved from a centuries-old Native American path. Currently Clinton has three majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payne's Cemetery
Payne's Cemetery was a cemetery located in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1851 as a privately owned secular cemetery open to the public, but it primarily served the city's African American community. The cemetery was declared abandoned by the city in 1966. About 2,000 bodies at Payne's Cemetery were reinterred at National Harmony Memorial Park cemetery in Prince George's County, Maryland. Two public schools and a recreation center were constructed atop the cemetery in the late 1960s, during which time hundreds of corpses were unearthed and summarily disposed of. About the cemetery John Payne was a free African American man who owned a farm east of the Anacostia River. He had a wife, Ellen, and several children. Payne's primary occupation was as a carpenter, however, so he used of his land to establish a cemetery for African Americans in 1851. But it wasn't until 1896 that the Payne's Cemetery Association was charter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Harmony Memorial Park
National Harmony Memorial Park is a private, secular cemetery located at 7101 Sheriff Road in Landover, Maryland, in the United States. Although racially integrated, most of the individuals interred there are African American. In 1960, the 37,000 graves of Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington, D.C., were transferred to National Harmony Memorial Park's Columbian Harmony section. In 1966, about 2,000 graves from Payne's Cemetery in D.C. were transferred to National Harmony Memorial Park as well. History of the cemetery Washington businessman Louis H. Bell owned Forest Lawn Cemetery on Sheriff Road in Landover, Maryland. Bell also owned Prince George's Nurseries, and planned to add an additional of nursery land to the cemetery. In nearby Washington, D.C., Columbian Harmony Cemetery had met its capacity. Established in 1859 by a burial society for free Blacks, it was the most active cemetery for Black residents from the 1880s to the 1920s. But by 1950 the cemetery ran out of roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Officeholders During And Following The Reconstruction Era
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as 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 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. The following is a partial list some of the most notable of the officeholders pre–1900. U.S. Senate * Hiram Rhodes Revels ( R), Senator from Mississippi (1870-1871) * Blanche Bruce (R), Senator from Mississippi (1875-1881) *P. B. S. Pinchback was elected to the U.S. Senate by the Louisiana legislature in 1873, but the Senate refused to seat him. U.S. House Alabama State Senate *Alexander H. Curtis - Perry County 1872-1874 * James K. Greene - Hale County *Jeremiah Haralson - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Mississippi House Of Representatives
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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