Dabney Lipscomb (May 6, 1803 - June 22, 1850) was a physician, an academic and state legislator in Mississippi. He served as president of the

Mississippi 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 ...

. During his term he fell seriously ill and

John Isaac Guion John Isaac Guion (November 18, 1802 – June 6, 1855) was an American politician from Mississippi who served as Governor in 1851. Biography Guion was born in Adams County in the Mississippi Territory. He studied law in Lebanon, Tennessee, was ...

took over his duties. During a recess the governor resigned and Guion became governor pro tempore. He represented

Lowndes County, Mississippi Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 59,779. Its county seat is Columbus. The county is named for U.S. Congressman and slave owner William Jone ...

, and served as president of the Senate from 1848 to 1851. He was a faculty member and trustee of Mississippi Industrial Institute and College. He wrote a history of the institution. His son William Lowndes Lipscomb was a surgeon whose history of Columbus County was published posthumously. Lipscomb also had prominent grandchildren including literature professor and author Dabney Lipscomb. He died June 22, 1850, whilst at home in

Columbus, Mississippi Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterwa ...

, he died of chronic diarrhoea which he had been suffering with for months. He was honored in the Senate on Monday November 18, 1850.

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* 1803 births 1850 deaths Mississippi state senators People from Columbus, Mississippi Presidents pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate {{Mississippi-politician-stub