Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of James Z. George
Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Legislators
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Legislators
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Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617032328
“When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his state," wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” While George’s prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (1826–1897) was “Mississippi's most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century.” Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer and planter, Civil War officer, Reconstruction leader, state Supreme Court chief justice, and Mississippi’s longest-serving United States senator to that time deserves a full biography. And George’s importance was greater than just on the state level as other southerners copied his tactics to secure white supremacy in their own states. That James Z. George has never had a full, academic biography is inexplicable. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner seeks to rectify the lack of attention to George’s life. In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources, never or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of George’s letters held by his descendants and never used by historians. Such wonderful sources allow a glimpse not only into the life and times of James Z. George, but perhaps more importantly an exploration of the man himself, his traits, personality, and ideas. The result is a picture of an extremely commonplace individual on the surface, but an exceptionally complicated man underneath. James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner will bring this important Mississippi leader of the nineteenth century back into the minds of twenty-first-century Mississippians.
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Biography
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1898
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Page : 880 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 1794 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1898
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Thomas McAdory Owen
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1900
Category : American literature
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