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John Butler Smith, forty-seventh Governor (1893-95), was a descendant of one of the settlers of 1718.
John Francis Mercer (1759-1821), eleventh Governor (1801-03), was a descendant of the Mercers of Aldie, Perthshire.
John J. McRae (1815-68), nineteenth Governor (1854-58), was of Scottish descent.
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 Governors of Mississippi
McRae was born in Sneedsborough, North Carolina, on January 10, 1815, and was only two years old when his family moved to Winchester in Wayne County, Mississippi.
In 1847, McRae was elected to represent Clarke County in the Mississippi Legislature and was named Speaker of the House in 1850.
Following the death of Congressman John A. Quitman in 1858, Governor McRae was elected to his seat in the United States House of Representatives and remained in Congress until Mississippi seceded from the Union.
mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature47/governors/17_john_mcrae.htm   (459 words)

  
 McRAE'S BATTALION, NORTH CAROLINA CAVALRY, CSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
McRae's Battalion North Carolina Cavalry was organized as a result of the serious depredations being committed in western North Carolina in 1862 and early 1863.
McRae established his headquarters at Asheville, but most of his men were detached in small parties and sent to far southwestern North Carolina where their services were more urgently needed.
McRae also lamented that George Washington Kirk, now an official member of the Federal Army led a raid on Camp Vance less than a month after McRae's men were withdrawn from the western portion of the state.
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scotland's Mark On America, by George Fraser Black. Ph.D.
John Maclean (1785-1861), Postmaster-General from 1823 to 1829, was later Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of Ohio, and unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1856 and again in 1860.
John Graham (1774-1820), Minister-Plenipotentiary to Brazil (1819), was brother of George Graham, Acting Secretary of War in the cabinets of Madison and Monroe.
John Armstrong (1725-95), born in the North of Ireland of Scottish ancestry, served in the French and Indian War (1755-56), was Brigadier-General in the Continental Army (1776-77), and Delegate to the Continental Congress (1778-80, 1787-88).
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 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:
John Fletcher Comer (1811-1858), a native of Jones County, Georgia, was the son of Ann Trippe and Hugh Moss Comer, and grandson of Elizabeth Moss and Samuel Comer.
Unit 59 is a letter from John J. Collier at Raleigh, North Carolina, to Major George M. Collier at Waynesboro [Goldsboro?], North Carolina, dated 5 October 1847, briefly about financial matters, mentioning family matters, and plans to leave for Alabama later in the month.
Patton begged for news of his son John, who was visiting the Gage family, and abused the Gages for their politics as well as for their neglect in writing him.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj7.asp   (17392 words)

  
 University of Mississippi. Department of Classics History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Newton Waddel was himself Chancellor of the University from 1865-1874.
John J. Wheat was appointed Professor of Greek and Alexander J. Quinche, Professor of Latin.
McRae's message to the legislature of 1856 in which it was calculated that the state owed the University Fund, at that time, $1,077,790.07.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/classics/history.html   (4416 words)

  
 JOHN JULY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John July was born May 5, 1887 on the Seminole Reservation near Brackettville.
Dolly's father was John Ward who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor as the brave fighter with Col.
John walked about three miles to school in Brackettville with other Seminoles and to church on Sundays.
www.coax.net /people/lwf/SEM_JJ.HTM   (249 words)

  
 Mississippi History Newsletter | May 2001
Mississippi Quilts, by Mary Elizabeth Johnson, is the result of a six-year project to document this craft's heritage in the state.
The foreword is by William F. Winter, president of the MDAH Board of Trustees.
Campus Brat, J. Chester McKee's memoirs of growing up on the Mississippi State campus where his father was professor of botany, will be of interest to all MSU alumni and friends.
www.mdah.state.ms.us /pubs/mhn/newbooks.html   (534 words)

  
 Scots and Scots Descendants - McD-Mu
The founder of Savannah, James E. Oglethorpe, had among his officers John McIntosh whose son William was to become a captain in the colonial army and marry a Creek Indian princess, Senoia Henneha.
She married a man called John Kinzie, a silversmith and fur trader who was actually the son of a British army surgeon, John McKenzie, a member of her father's clan.
John Stuart Mill was a prolific writer on many subjects, including politics and economics, and he had a great impact on Victorian thought.
www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-McD-Mu.htm   (13129 words)

  
 Buffalo Soldiers - A Chronology of African American Military Service From the Civil War to World War I Part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Alexander from Ohio became the second of only three African Americans to graduate from West Point and be commissioned during the 35 years between 1865 and 1900.
He fought in the Spanish-American War, served with John J. Pershings punitive expedition into Mexico, became the first fl American military attache in Haiti, and helped to organize a force in Liberia.
Black gunners mate John Jordan on the flagship USS Olympia fired the first shot in the opening Battle of Manila Bay, during which the Americans completely destroyed the Spanish squadron.
www.buffalosoldiers.com /AAChronology2.htm   (3388 words)

  
 The Papers of Jefferson Davis
McClernand, John A. (sketches, 2:640, 6:344), 5, 162, 200
McRae, John J. (sketch, 4:253): L to, 215-16; Ls from, 297, 319-20; mentioned, 333
Reagan, John H. (sketch, 7:420): Memminger and, 253, 268, 322, 352; E to, 352; Ls from, 22-23, 61, 98, 100, 122, 126-27, 154, 253, 305, 322-23; mentioned, 70, 72, 73, 103.
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 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of ...
Allen presented the petition of J. McCracken, of DeSoto county, which, on his motion, was referred, without reading, to the Committee on Judiciary.
Owen presented the petition of Thomas J. Arnold, of Holmes county, which, on his motion, was referred to the Committee on Claims, without reading.
Middleton, former Captain of the Panola cavalry, and Captain J. Taylor, his successor in office," and on his motion bill was read second and third times under a suspension of the rule, and passed forthwith, title standing as stated.
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 BELIZEmagazine.com - The Internet Magazine of Belize
One of the first settlers from the United States to join Duval and his family was General Colin J. McRae, brother of former Mississippi Governor John J. McRae, who purchased land to the South of New Richmond near Cotton Tree Bank.
Benjamin was not very good at managing his money, however, and McRae purchased his interest in their endeavor before Benjamin left to join Price and others settlers near Orange Walk.
Colin McRae, the final remaining "citizen" of New Richmond, died at his estate is 1876.
www.belizemagazine.com /edition03/english/e03_16newrichmond.htm   (1281 words)

  
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J. McRAE While large fortifications, like Fort Pulaski, were being seized by the seceding states, certain civilities were apparently still observed in connection with smaller items of Federal property....
John W. Ellis" Excited by a rumor of approaching troops, Wilmington citizens stormed the two forts, quickly overcoming their two ordnance-sergeant care-takers.
On the receipt of this information I ordered Colonel Jackson, of Savannah, to call out sufficient military force and renew the reprisals by the seizure of property belonging to New York or the citizens of that State, and to extend the seizures until he has doubled the amount of the original reprisals made by him.
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 Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [Volume 5] : a machine readable transcription.
Charles J. Munnerlyn, a Representative-elect from the State of Georgia, who came forward, was duly qualified, and took his seat.
Kenner, of Louisiana; Jones, of Tennessee; Bonham, of South Carolina; Garnett, of Virginia; McRae, of Mississippi; Lyon, of Alabama; Machen, of Kentucky; Holt, of Georgia, and Graham, of Texas.
John B. Baldwin, a Representative-elect from the State of Virginia, who came forward, was qualified, and took his seat.
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 The Papers of Jefferson Davis
McRae, John J. (sketch, 4:253): L from, 439-40; L with, 8; mentioned, 15
Pillow, Gideon J. (sketch, 257): appointment, 240, 241; at Belmont, 402; captures Hickman, Ky., 325, 328; criticized, 74, 183, 221, 256, 291-293, 309, 320; Memphis commander, 169, 202, 257, 293, 329; Mo. operations, 291-293; praised, 221, 241, 293; Ls from, 168, 197, 210, 411; mentioned, 318, 351, 403, 435
Quitman, John A. (sketch, 2:106): 176, 277, 306, 324, 372
jeffersondavis.rice.edu /PubVol.cfm?doc_id=1482   (2409 words)

  
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To Deny: Pittman, C.J., McRae and Smith, P.JJ., Waller, Cobb, Easley, Carlson and Graves, JJ.
Dissenting Opinion: McRae, P.J. In Re: A. Chesterton Company; Jones Circuit Court 1st District; LC Case #: 2000-26-CV9; Ruling Judge: Billy Landrum; Disposition: Petition for Extraordinary Writ of Prohibition and/or Mandamus to be Issued to the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi, filed by petitioner is granted.
McRae, P.J., Dissents with Separate Written Statement Joined by Easley, J. Diaz, J., not participating.
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 Chapter VI, The Miami Years
Among John Cleves Symmes' disappointments was the death of his two sons in infancy.
In the spring of 1841, John Jamison of Ross County, Ohio died of measles.
In the summer of 1844, John W. Smith, a freshman from Oxford, Mississippi, died of dysentery.
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 Group: Rebury ex-gov. on coast - The Clarion-Ledger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
GAUTIER — A Gulf Coast group wants to exhume the body of former Gov. John J. McRae from a grave in Belize and rebury it in Gautier.
McRae fell ill and died on a trip to Belize to visit his brother, Colin McRae, who had been the financial agent for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
McRae's father and other family members already are buried in the Jackson County cemetery.
www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041220/NEWS01/412200332/1002   (279 words)

  
 The Papers of Jefferson Davis
McRae, John J. (sketch, 4:253): L to V. Davis, 138
Magruder, John Bankhead (sketch, 1:75): aides, 410, 412; assignment, 410-11, 460; on Texas operations, 409-10; Smith on, 188, 195, 353; in Texas, 67, 188, 304, 315, 316, 460; Ls from, 409-11, 496; mentioned, 457, 554, 595
Milton, John (sketch, 8:350): Davis on, 397, 637; on conscription, 10, 220, trade regulations, 301, 396-97; Ls to, 259, 442, 583, 596-97, 636, 637; Ls from, 10, 220, 257, 280, 396-97, 399, 565
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The third.party who called themselves the Constitutional party met in Baltimore, on' May 9, and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for President, and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice-President, their platform was the "Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement of the Law."
Smith, C. McRae, John Gill Shorter, T. Hale, David P, Lewis, Thomas Fearn, and W. Chilton.
Georgia, Robert Toombs, Howell Cobb, Benjamin J. Hill, A. Stephens, Francis Bartow, M. Crawford, E. Nisbett, A. Wright, T. Cobb, and A. Kenan.
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 Governors of Mississippi
Governor John Jones Pettus has the distinction of serving the shortest term of governor in the state’s history.
He served for five days between the resignation of Henry Foote on January 5 and the inauguration of his successor, John J. McRae, on January 10, 1854.
Governor Pettus is best known, however, as the governor who took Mississippi out of the Union in 1861.
mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature47/governors/16_john_pettus.htm   (475 words)

  
 Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, Called Session at Columbus, February and ...
Resolved, That Brigadier General J. Chalmers be invited to address the Legislature, at such time as may suit his convenience, and that the use of this hall be tendered him for that purpose.
An act for the relief of John Lee Crawford and Mary E. Crawford, of Copiah county.
An act to repeal an act to incorporate the town of Carthage, in the county of Leake.
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 F&M College: Special Collections : Griest Coll. of Lincolniana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lincoln is making a speech, his hat is on the table back of him, the left hand holds notes and the right is extended.
John B. Haskin, of Westchester County, New York, in reply to attack made by the President's home organ, "The Constitution," upon Anti-Lecompton Democrats, and colloquy between Mr.
John J. McRae, of Mississippi, on the 13 and 14, 1859." Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1859.
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 Profile and Trivia
She is the birthplace of the late "Fishbait" Miller, the longest serving Doorkeeper to the United States House of Representatives.
She produced an early Governor, John J. McRae, as well as our state’s nationally recognized Attorney General, Mike Moore, and assorted other State and Federal officials.
The Old Spanish Fort, located in Pascagoula, was built between 1715 and 1726 and is the oldest edifice West of the Atlantic coast.
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 U.S. states L-M
1979) 3 Jan 1945 - 2 Jan 1947 Maurice J. Tobin Dem (b.
1892) 1 Jan 1873 - 3 Jan 1877 John J. Bagley Rep (b.
1942) 1 Jan 1991 - 1 Jan 2003 John Engler Rep (b.
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 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
John Metcalf: a Biocritical Essay by Louis K. MacKendrick
Mordecai Richler: a Biocritical Essay by Victor J. Ramraj
John Ralston Saul's Opening Address to a meeting of the International Council Council of Canadian Studies Meeting
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 The Avalon Project : Confederate States of America - Constitution for the Provisional Government.
Georgia: R. Toombs, Francis S. Bartow, Martin J. Crawford, E. Nisbet, Benjamin H. Hill, Augustus R. Wright, Thomas R. Cobb, A. Kenan, Alexander H. Stephens.
Alabama: Richard W. Walker, Robert H. Smith, Colin J. McRae, John Gill Shorter, William Parish Chilton, Stephen F. Hale, David P. Lewis, Thomas Fearn, J. Curry.
By a vote of the Congress, on the 2d day of March, in thc year 1861, the deputies from the State of Texas were authorized to sign the Provisional Constitution above written.
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 8th Massachusetts Roster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
January, Samuel M. Kane, John J. Keegan, Charles J. Kiely, William H. Knowland, Fred B. -Transf’d to Hosp.
Maurais, Wilfred A. Meagher, James J. Murphy, Michael J. Nobel, Shirley C. Norton, Charles E. O’Connell, John J. O’Leary, James A. Palky, Philippe.
Kelley, John P. Kingsley, Charles G. Knox, George H. Lambert, George W. Lane, Elmer C. Lewis, Michael F. Linehan, John J. Loftus, Patrick.
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 African Americans - A Chronology of African American Military Service From the Civil War to World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1887 John Alexander from Ohio became the second of only three African Americans to graduate from West Point and be commissioned during the 35 years between 1865 and 1900.
June 1898 Because they were believed to have greater resistance to tropical diseases, the U.S. Army used African American troops extensively during the campaigns in Cuba and the Philippines.
Posted by McRae, Bennie J., Jr., Lest We Forget: African-American History, Culture and Current Events, 1993-98, http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/soldiers.htm
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