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	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (James J-Jamz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) was a reputed son of James II and pretender to the English throne.
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	Governors of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alcorn had previously served in the state legislature of Kentucky and Mississippi, and had risen to the rank of general in the Confederate military service during the Civil War.
		Alcorn served as a delegate to the convention that drafted Mississippi’s 1890 Constitution.
		Pereyra, Lillian A. James L. Alcorn: Persistent Whig (Baton Rouge, 1966).
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature47/governors/23_james_alcorn.htm (466 words)

	James L. Alcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816–December 19, 1894) was a prominent American political figure in Mississippi during the 19th century.
		Alcorn was a wealthy planter and member of the Whig party.
		Alcorn later served as Republican Governor from 1870 to 1871, and resigned to become a U.S. Senator (1871–1877).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Lusk_Alcorn (186 words)

	Alcorn State University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alcorn State University, located in Clairborne County, Mississippi, was founded in 1871 as the nation's first state-supported higher education institution for fls.
		The site where Alcorn State is located was originally called Oakland College, a Presbyterian-run school for whites.
		The university's name was changed to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1878 and designed a land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Alcorn_State_University (248 words)

	Alcorn State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The site where Alcorn State is located was originally called Oakland College, a Presbyterian -run school for whites.
		Alcorn State University A land-grant institution, awarding undergraduate and graduate degrees, located outside Lorman, Mississippi.
		Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some cases able to take younger students in exceptional cases) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Alcorn_State_University.html (475 words)

	Reconstruction & James Alcorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alcorn steadily moved toward Negro suffrage, and in so doing alienated conservatives in the state and appeared to be more and more radical when in reality he probably was more conservative than they.
		Alcorn consistently maintained that there was no organized Klan activity, even after pushing through the Legislature an act outlawing the wearing of masks and disguises, and creating a "special contingency fund" to investigate acts of violence.
		Alcorn realized he would have to remain in the state until after the fall election to retain control of the party so he refused to take his Senate seat in March and postponed it until November of 1871.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/civilwar/16/alcorn.html (1395 words)

	Home - Black Mississippi
		Alcorn State University (ASU) was founded in 1871 as the first land-grant institution for fls in the United States under the Federal Morrill Act.
		Alcorn State University is the epi-center for higher education in southwest Mississippi, and has been recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture as a Center of Excellence for Rural Development.
		Alcorn is affectionately known as the “Academic Resort,” and is committed to academic excellence and the holistic development of the person.
	www.blackmississippi.com /eduarticle.html?page=edunews&id=23&sId=4&pId=0&fId=-1 (922 words)

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		Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church.
		Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then governor of the state of Mississippi.
		Throughout the university's history, Alcorn has followed a carefully structured plan to retain and enhance the image and potential of students and to attract young people whose intent is to receive a quality education.
	www.blackmississippi.com /eduarticle.html?page=edunews&id=10&sId=4&pId=0&fId=-1 (595 words)

	The Scalawags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alcorn was the governor of (and later a senator from) Mississippi during Reconstruction.
		Alcorn derived his support from scalawags, carpetbaggers, and freedmen, although he was primarily concerned with his personal advancement (he did manage to retire to a 22-room mansion).
		Alcorn, the scalawag, was not concerned as much with promoting the freedmen, whereas Ames took pride in his actions to better their lives.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Scalawag (1990 words)

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		Born in Illinois but raised in Kentucky, James L. Alcorn (1816-1894) became Mississippi's first Reconstruction governor, and perhaps the era's most prominent "scalawag," or Southern white Republican.
		Alcorn in 1844 moved to Mississippi, where he married a planter's daughter, and became one of the largest landowners in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
		At the end of the Civil War, Alcorn broke with his state's political leadership by advocating limited fl suffrage and supporting the Fourteenth Amendment.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /reconstruction/section4/section4_alcorn.html (235 words)

	Scalawag Exits in Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alcorn was installed as Governor in 1870 during the Reconstruction, backed by the military occupation of Adelbert Ames.
		During Alcorn's Administration, in which whites were disenfranchised, the legislature elected Negro Hiram Revells to sit in the Senate seat formerly occupied by Jefferson Davis.
		Alcorn called for Mississippians to "make friends" with the Negro, whose imposition upon the state was toppled only by the revolution of 1876.
	www.nationalist.org /alt/2003/feb/scalawag.html (932 words)

	St. Lawrence, Wisconsin bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) is a professor emeritus at UCLA.
		James Hardesty Critchfield (1917 - April 22, 2003) was an officer of the US Central Intelligence Agency who rose to become the chief of its Near East and South Asia division.
		James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 - October 29, 1666), English dramatist, was born in London.
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	2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He graduated from Alcorn State University (Alcorn AandM) in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Education.
		James has been employed by the Lawrence County School District for 37 years.
		He was a member of the sixth class of inductees into the Alcorn State University Hall of Honor in 1995.
	alumni.alcorn.edu /alcornite01.htm (417 words)

	MSGenWeb
		It was erected April 15, 1870, from Tippah and Tishomingo counties, and named in honor of Gov. James L. Alcorn, the first chief executive of the State chosen under the constitution of 1869.
		Alcorn County presents a diversified soil lying partly in the Northeastern Prairie and partly in the Limestone Formation belts.
		The standing of Alcorn County as a producer of live stock is pronounced, as the value of her domestic animals is $1,269,000.
	www.rootsweb.com /~msgenweb/county-hist/alcorn.htm (693 words)

	Descendants of William W. Russell of South Carolina and Arkansas
		James Frank Russell, born December 15, 1857 in Izard Co., Arkansas; died November 25, 1934 in Mayo, Florida.
		Joshua Weaver3 Russell (James L.2, William W.1) was born March 02, 1856 in Tippah Co., Mississippi, and died June 25, 1895 in Corinth, Alcorn Co., Mississippi.
		James Frank3 Russell (James L.2, William W.1) was born December 15, 1857 in Izard Co., Arkansas, and died November 25, 1934 in Mayo, Florida.
	www.arms2armor.com /Genealogy/william5.htm (674 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alcorn State University
		Alcorn State University, located in Claiborne County, Mississippi, was founded in 1871 as the nation's first state-supported higher education institution for fls.
		In the United States, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) (a type of Minority Serving Institution or MSI) are colleges or universities that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the African-American community.
		In the history of the United States, Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alcorn-State-University (1184 words)

	James L. Alcorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like many Whig planters in Mississippi, Alcorn initially opposed secession but later cast his lot with the Confederacy.
		Although a believer in white supremacy, he supported civil and political rights for African-Americans.
		This page was last modified 03:40, 7 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_L._Alcorn (186 words)

	Soul Of America - Black Colleges : Alcorn State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Located in southwest Mississippi, equidistant (40 miles) from Vicksburg to the north and Natchez to the south, and 80 miles southwest of Jackson, Alcorn State University was founded in 1871.
		Originally occupying the site of a school for Whites which closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War and failed to reopen, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi in 1871 and renamed Alcorn University (an all-male university) in honor of James L. Alcorn, then governor of the state of Mississippi.
		With nearly 3,000 students -- the majority of which are women -- the university is nestled near the mighty Mississippi River on 1,756 acres, of which 1,456 is utilized for agriculture and research.
	www.soulofamerica.com /colleges/alcorn_su.html (273 words)

	Alcorn State University - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alcorn agribusiness programs help minority entrepreneurs : An article from: The Mississippi Business Journal
		Family characteristics among 1000 households as they relate to housing conditions in Claiborne county, Mississippi (Alcorn State University.
		Alcorn State University : campus of excellence : Army ROTC (SuDoc D 101.22/31:M 69 I/3/999)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /alcorn_state_university.htm (353 words)

	Governors of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because Ames was a highly vocal advocate of fl suffrage, he became enormously popular among Mississippi’s former slaves and emerged quickly as the leader of the Radical wing of the state’s newly established Republican Party.
		James L. Alcorn, the former Whig leader and wealthy Delta planter, was the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party.
		In 1873, Senator Ames ran for governor against James L. Alcorn, the other senator from Mississippi who had also served as governor in 1870 and 1871.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature47/governors/22_adelbert_ames.htm (576 words)

	Alcorn State University at a Glance
		Alcorn University created by an act of the Mississippi State Legislature on May 13.
		Alcorn A.and M. College accredited as a "B" college by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
		Alcorn College made an accredited "A" college by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
	www.alcorn.edu /ABOUT/history.htm (1139 words)

	Journal of the Senate of the United States, 43rd Congress, 1st session: a machine readable transcription.
		Alcorn presented the petition of Richard J. Murray, praying an increase of pension; which was referred to the Committee on Pensions.
		Alcorn presented the petition of Julia A. Nutt, administratrix of Haller Nutt, deceased, praying compensation for quartermaster's stores taken for the use of the Army during the late war; which was referred to the Committee on Claims.
		James W. Boswell, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ll/llsj/069/llsj069.sgm (14271 words)

	mississippiansinwashington
		Although slighted by his Mississippi colleague, James L. Alcorn, Bruce won the friendship and support of Republican senators such as Roscoe Conkling (for whom Bruce would name his only child), and he enjoyed a more amicable relationship with Alcorn's successor, L.Q.C. Lamar.
		In 1876, Lynch was defeated by James R. Chalmers, a former Confederate general and cavalry commander.
		James Z. George, who was a member of both the Mississippi secession convention in 1861 and the constitutional convention of 1890, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1880 and served until his death in 1897.
	www.stennis.gov /msinwashington.htm (3634 words)

	The Papers of Jefferson Davis
		Alcorn, James L.: appointment, 107, 277; L from, 107
		Carroll, Anna Ella (sketch, 6:24): Ls to, 23, 64-65; L from, 64
		Chesnut, James (sketch, 386): Beauregard's aide, 383-385, 388, 400-401, 405, 422, 426; confers with Davis, xli, 389, 401; in Congress, 275; on Davis' election, 37; Ls to, 383, 408; L from, 388-92; mentioned, 432
	jeffersondavis.rice.edu /PubVol.cfm?doc_id=1480 (2270 words)

	1870
		L Alcorn wins in the race for Governor over his opponent, Louis Dent, brother-in-law of President Grant, and resident of Coahoma County.
		James L. Alcorn decided to join the Republican Party because he had wanted to gain the confidence of the current leadership so that they might give the leadership to proper government.
		Alcorn went on to say that John Brown, the sheriff, had embezzled nearly eleven thousand dollars from state revenues.
	www.freewebs.com /deltahistory/1870.htm (7343 words)

	Alcorn State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The site where Alcorn State is located was originally called Oakland College, a Presbyterian -runschool for whites.
		Upon the conclusion of the conflict, theschool did not re-open and was sold to the State of Mississippi.
		He was onlyfilling the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis) his seat to become theuniversity's first president.
	www.therfcc.org /alcorn-state-university-108079.html (227 words)

	Slater Museum of Natural History
		James R. Slater started the museum as a collection of reptiles and amphibians and was the director from 1930-1951.
		The Bird Division was established in 1934 by Gordon D. Alcorn, the Mammal Division in 1946 by Murray L. Johnson.
		Subsequent directors were Alcorn from 1951-1972 and 1978-1983, Edward Herbert from 1972-1975, Eileen Solie from 1975-1978, Terrence R. Mace from 1983-1989, and Dennis R. Paulson from 1990 to the present.
	www.ups.edu /biology/museum/museum.html (955 words)

	James Lusk Alcorn
		ALCORN, James Lusk, statesman, born near Golconda, Illinois, 4 November 1816.
		In 1852 he was chosen elector- at -large on the Scott ticket, and in 1857 was nominated as governor by the Whigs.
		He was the founder of the levee system in his state, and in 1858 he became president of the levee board of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesluskalcorn (428 words)

	James L Alcorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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