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John William Powell (politician)
John William Powell (March 4, 1928 - November 15, 2010) was an American farmer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1960 to 1988. Biography John William Powell was born on March 4, 1928, in Liberty, Mississippi. He graduated from Liberty High School and Southwest Mississippi Junior College. He began serving as a Democrat in the Mississippi State Senate The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol ... in 1960. He continued serving in the Senate until he retired in 1988. He died on November 15, 2010, in McComb, Mississippi. References 1928 births 2010 deaths People from Liberty, Mississippi Democratic Party Mississippi state senators {{Mississippi-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty, Mississippi
Liberty is a town in Amite County, Mississippi. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi McComb micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. It has a population of 728 according to the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Amite County. The town can be accessed via Interstate 55 in Mississippi, I-55, then west on Mississippi Highway 24. McGehee Air Park is located about a mile west of town. Liberty celebrates its Heritage Days Festival during the first weekend of each May. Air Cruisers manufacturing plant is located in Liberty. Owned by Zodiac Aerospace, the plant produces evacuation slides, life rafts, and life vests for the aviation industry. Eleven sites in or near Liberty are listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Amite County, Mississippi, National Register of Historic Places. History Liberty was incorporated on February 24, 1809. The Amite County Courthouse in Liberty is the oldest in Mississippi. Erected in 1839, the courthouse was enlarged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McComb, Mississippi
McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, United States. The city is approximately south of Jackson. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 12,790. It is the principal city of the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. History 19th century McComb was founded in 1872 after Henry Simpson McComb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad (now part of the Canadian National Railway), decided to move the railroad's maintenance shops away from New Orleans, Louisiana, to avoid the attractions of that city's bars. The railroad purchased land in Pike County. Three nearby communities, Elizabethtown, Burglund, and Harveytown, agreed to consolidate to form this town. Main Street developed with the downtown's shops, attractions, and business. 20th century The rail center in McComb was one of flashpoints in the violent Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. Riots took place here that result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129."The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party (with major individuals within it frequently holding widely different political views) due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi State Senate
The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Senate is composed of 52 senators representing an equal number of constituent districts, with 57,063 people per district (2010 figures). In the current legislative session, the Republican Party holds 36 seats while the Democratic Party holds 16 seats, creating a Republican trifecta in the state government. Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions and boards and can create and amend bills. Membership, terms and elections According to the current Mississippi Constitution of 1890, the Senate is to be composed of no more than 52 members elected for four-year terms with no term limits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty High School (Mississippi)
Liberty High School may refer to the following schools in the United States: Arizona *Liberty High School (Globe, Arizona) *Liberty High School (Peoria, Arizona) California *Liberty High School (Bakersfield, California) *Liberty High School (Benicia, California), Benicia, California *Liberty High School (Brentwood, California) *Liberty High School (Madera Ranchos, California); see California HeatWave Colorado *Liberty High School (Colorado), in Colorado Springs Florida *Liberty High School (Kissimmee, Florida) *Liberty High School (Palm Bay, Florida), a high school in Florida Georgia * Liberty County High School (Georgia) in Hinesville, Georgia Illinois * Liberty High School (Illinois), in Liberty Iowa *Liberty High School (Iowa), in North Liberty Louisiana *Liberty High School (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Maryland *Liberty High School (Maryland), in Carroll County Missouri *Liberty High School (Liberty, Missouri) *Liberty North High School, Liberty, Missouri * Liberty High Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Mississippi Community College
Southwest Mississippi Community College is a public community college in Summit, Mississippi. History The college was officially started in 1908 as an agricultural high school. The Pike County Agricultural High School opened on September 3, 1918, after receiving approval from the Pike County School Board the previous April. The high school began to incorporate college work into the curriculum in 1929 and by 1932 the school had become a junior college. Fifty-four years later in 1988, the name of the school was officially changed to Southwest Mississippi Community College. Notable alumni * Woodie Assaf, longtime weatherman at WLBT in Jackson * Jarrod Dyson, outfielder for the Seattle Mariners, former outfielder for the 2015 World Series Kansas City Royals *David Green, Mississippi state legislator *Billy Milner 1995 first round draft pick of the Miami Dolphins *Glover Quin Glover Freeman Quin Jr. (; born January 15, 1986) is a former American football safety. He played colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Births
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2010 Deaths
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People From Liberty, Mississippi
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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