Hernando De Soto Money (August 26, 1839September 18, 1912) was an American politician from the state of
Mississippi
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.
Biography
Money was born in
Holmes County, Mississippi
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. He was named after the Spanish explorer
Hernando De Soto. Early in his life, he moved with his family to
Carrollton, Mississippi
Carrollton is a town in and the second county seat of Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, which is within the Mississippi Delta. The population was 190 at the 2010 census, down from 408 in 2000. Centrally located in the county, the town ...
. He received his early education in the public schools and from a private tutor and subsequently graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he was a member of
St. Anthony Hall. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Carrollton, Mississippi, about 1860.
As a young man he served in the
Confederate
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army during the
American Civil War
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. After the war, he established himself as an important planter, lawyer and newspaper editor in Mississippi. He first served in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1875 to 1885, as a member of the
United States Democratic Party
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, to which he would belong for the rest of his life. He decided not to run for reelection in 1884 and established a law partnership with former assistant attorney general
Alfred A. Freeman. He continued to live in the capital,
Washington, D.C.
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, until 1891, when he returned to Carrollton. He served in the United States House again from Mississippi from 1893 to 1897.
He married author Claudia Boddie, native of Jackson, Mississippi, and they had three daughters and two sons. The two younger daughters, Mabel Clare and Lillian Money, usually spent the winter in Washington with their parents. They both attended the Norwood Institute and the Berlitz School of Languages of Washington.
In 1897 he was appointed to the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
from Mississippi following the death of
James Z. George
James Zachariah George (October 20, 1826August 14, 1897) was an American lawyer, writer, U.S. politician, Confederate politician, and military officer. He was known as Mississippi's "Great Commoner". He was also a slave owner.
Biography
James ...
. He was elected to a full term in 1899 and reelected in 1905, and served in the Senate from 1897 to 1911. He was the chairman of the Committees on Corporations in the District of Columbia and expanded accommodations for the
Library of Congress
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from 1907 to 1909. In 1903, he was one of many in opposition to the employment of African-American postal workers.
He was
Democratic Conference Chairman of the United States Senate, chairman of the Democratic Caucus from 1909 to 1911, when he decided to retire from the Senate. He returned to his home near
Biloxi, Mississippi
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, where he died one year later. He was buried in the family vault in Carrollton.
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1839 births
1912 deaths
19th-century American politicians
American planters
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
Democratic Party United States senators from Mississippi
People from Carrollton, Mississippi
People from Holmes County, Mississippi