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THOMAS RUPERT BAIRD, of Indianola, Miss., son of James Madison Baird and Eliza T. (Rupert) Baird, was born December 11, 1850, at Crawford, Lowndes County, Miss. His father was a native of Asheville, N. C., and removed to Mississippi. He went from Crawford, Miss., to the Missis- sippi Delta, and after the Civil War returned to Asheville, N. C., and died in Sunflower County in 1879. His wife was
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the daughter of John Rupert, of Georgia. Thomas Rupert Baird received his early education near Asheville, N. C., in 1866-70. In 1870-71 he attended college at Lexington, Ky., entering the law department during the last year, after which he read law under Judge Bailey at Asheville; was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and licensed to practice before Judge Fisher in Sunflower County, Miss., in 1872. He was a member of the Mississippi Legis- lature of 1890; was chairman of a Democratic club in 1900, and has always been a zealous worker for his party. He was_ elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907. Senator Baird is a member of the Christian Church. He was married to Annie L. Montgomery, daughter of Livingston Montgomery and wife, Serenthy (Love) Montgomery, of Yazoo County, Miss., January 15, 1890.
THIRTIETH DISTRICT. Bolivar County.
JOHN CRAWFORD BURRUS, of Benoit, was born September 5, 1847, in Hinds County, Miss., and is the son of John Crawford Burrus and wife, Louisa (McGehee) Burrus. His paternal ancestors came to Mississippi from Virginia; maternal ancestors were from Georgia, and located in Wilkin- son County, Miss .; on both sides were soldiers of the Revolu- tion. The father of the subject of this sketch was a graduate of the University of Virginia, with the B. A. degree; was admitted to the bar in Huntsville, Ala., in 1838; removed to Bolivar County, Miss., and was Probate Judge of that county for many years. Mr. Burrus was taught by private tutors at the home of his father in Bolivar County, Miss., until he reached the age of twelve years; attended a preparatory school at Nashville, Tenn., one session, and enlisted as a private in Company I, Ninth Texas Cavalry, and served until the close of the war between the United States and the Confederate States; engaged in planting in Bolivar County from that time to this; member of Board of Supervisors of Bolivar County from 1890 to 1896; Justice of the Peace from 1896 to 1904. Senator Burrus is a Democrat; member of Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Mason, Knight of Honor and Knight of Pythias; married March 17, 1870, to Mar- garet Annie Barritt, daughter of Lucas Barritt and wife, Emily (Nutter) Barritt, of Kentucky. Mrs. Burrus died October 11, 1886. Mr. Burrus has one living child, Mar- garet (Burrus) Barry, of Benoit, Miss. In the House of 1904-1908 Mr. Burrus was a member of the following com- mittees: Appropriations, Levees, Agriculture (Ch.). He was elected to the Senate from the Thirtieth District November 5 1907.
THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT. Chickasaw, Calhoun and Pontotoc Counties.
CHARLES EDWARD FRANKLIN, of Pontotoc, was born October 28, 1867, at Poplar Springs, Pontotoc County. Miss., and is the son of John I. Gracy Franklin and wife. Amanda (Allbritton) Franklin. His paternal ancestors were from South Carolina; maternal from Alabama; those on
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paternal side coming originally from Scotland. Mr. Franklin attended the public schools of Pontotoc County under the instruction of George Fortune, W. A. Dye, Marion Payne, . W. F. Davis and others; entered Poplar Springs Normal College and was graduated with the B. A. degree in June, 1890; took commercial course in 1889; taught school seven years; bookkeeper and salesman four years; elected Mayor of Pontotoc in 1900; re-elected in 1902; elected State Senator from Pontotoc, Calhoun and Chickasaw Counties (Thirty- first District) November 3, 1903. Senator Franklin is a . Democrat; member of Baptist Church, Knight of Pythias; married November 18, 1896, at Shelby, Ala., to Mamie M. Glenn, daughter of David C. and wife, Laura Glenn, of Shelby, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin have had born to them four children: Claud Lamar (died September 23, 1905), Edward Grady, Mary Gladys and Charles Edward, Jr. In the Senate of 1904-1908 Mr. Franklin was a member of the following committees: Printing, Education, Military, County Affairs, Engrossed Bills, Joint Committee Investigating State Officers, Revision Committee. He was re-elected to the Senate from Thirty-first District November 5, 1907.
JOHN JEFFERSON ADAMS, of Pittsboro, Calhoun County, Miss., son of James Jefferson Adams and wife, Mary (Burson) Adams, was born May 17, 1860, at Slate Springs, Calhoun County, Miss. His father was a native of Virginia, and about 1840 removed to Slate Springs, Miss., where he married Mary Burson, daughter of Amos Burson, a native of Alabama, November 23, 1858. From Slate Springs he moved to Corinth, Miss. He was a volunteer soldier of the Confederacy, and died in its service, September 4, 1862, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. His father, John G. B. Adams, died in Texas. John Jefferson Adams received his early education in the country schools of his vicinity, after which he pursued a course of study at home. He entered the Cumberland University Law School at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1896, from which school he was grad- uated in 1897. He attended the University of Mississippi in 1898, and began the practice of law in 1899 at Pittsboro Calhoun County, Miss. Prior to this he had merchandised at Bellefontaine, Webster County, Miss., of which place he was Mayor. At Pittsboro he engaged in merchandising in connection with his law practice, and served as a member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. He was a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of Webster County eight years, and served six years as Secretary. For the past five years he has been a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of the Fourth Congressional District. He was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907. . Senator Adams is a member of the Baptist Church; is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, Woodman of the World, and was mar- ried January 4, 1882, to Mary Masouri McCain, daughter of R. W. McCain and wife, Eliza, of Bellefontaine, Miss. They have three children: James J., Virgie (Adams) Cruthirds and Mary Z.
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Lafayette County.
GEORGE ROBERT HIGHTOWER, of Oxford, was born October 15, 1865, at Smith's Mill, Carroll County (now Grenada), Miss., and is the son of George Hightower and wife, Nancy (Kirby) Hightower. His ancestors came to Mississippi from Virginia. William Hightower and Jessie Dawson, his ancestors, were soldiers of the Revolution. The father of the subject of this sketch was a soldier of the Con- federacy. Mr. Hightower received his primary education in the public schools of Grenada County; attended the Buena Vista Normal College in Chickasaw County, and was gradu- ated from that institution in 1889; established the Abbeville Normal College in 1889; taught in the Grenada Collegiate Institute; was professor of mathematics in 1891; abandoned teaching in 1894 on account of failing health; has.been en- gaged in farming and stock raising since that time; elected Superintendent of Education of Lafayette County in 1895; elected to the House of Representatives from Lafayette County in 1899; elected Senator from the Thirty-second District November 3, 1903. Senator Hightower is a Demo- crat; member of the Methodist Church; Mason, Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the World; married February 11, 1892, at Abbeville, Miss., to Sallie Pearl Bishop, daughter of "Marion Pipkins Bishop and wife, Mary Elizabeth Beall. Mr. and Mrs. Hightower have one child, George Bishop. In the Senate of 1904-1908 Mr. Hightower was a member of the following committees: Finance, Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures, Claims, Federal Relations, Joint Committee Universities and Colleges. "Chairman of Special Joint Com- mittee for final Revision of Code of 1906. He was re-elected to the Senate from the Thirty-second District November 5 1907. Was elected President of the Farmers' Union Janu- ary 3, 1908, and resigned his seat in the Senate January 25th.
ROBERT AARON DEAN, of Glenndale, was born December 29, 1836, near Chulahoma, Marshall County, Miss., * and is the son of Russell Dean and wife, Louisa Ann (Alsup) Dean. His paternal ancestors were English and Scotch; maternal Welch and Irish. His grandmother, Elizabeth (Edmondson) Dean, was the first white child born in Hunts- ville, Ala. Robert Aaron Dean was educated in the private schools of Marshall County, Miss., and has been engaged in farming all his life. He was a member of the House of Representatives, 1878-1879, State Senate 1896-1906, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1890; in that body was Chairman of the Committee on Penitentiary, which abolished the convict-leasing system; he was a member of the Com- mission which supervised the erection of the new Capitol, 1900-1903, and was elected to the Senate January 25, 1908, to succeed G. R. Hightower, resigned. In 1861 he enlisted as Orderly Sergeant in the Marshall Riflemen at Chulahoma. Marshall County, and was assigned to the 19th Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A .; was made Third Lieutenant in 1861, Second and First Lieuten- ant in 1862, and Captain and Major in 1863; at the close of the war was Major of the 19th Mississippi Regiment. Major
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Dean is a Democrat, a member and Deacon in the Primitive Baptist Church, and Mason. He was married February 2, 1864, to Lucy Ann Langston, daughter of John McClure Langston and wife, Anner Hudspeth, of Lafayette County. Major and Mrs. Dean have eight children: Russell Langston, Thomas Greenwood, Joseph James, Robert Aaron, Jr., Louanner (Dean) Cavitt, Georgia (Dean) Waldrip, Minnie (Dean) Davis and Hardy Mott.
Calvin Brooks Vance.
Benjamin D. Simpson.
THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. Panola County.
CALVIN BROOKS VANCE, of Batesville, was born December 26, 1844, on a cotton plantation in Panola County, Miss., the son of Elisha Quinby Vance and wife, Cypressa C. (Brooks) Vance. His paternal ancestors came from Scotland to America before the Revolutionary War, first locating near Fredericksburg, Va. Subsequently part of the family moved to the Carolinas, whence the grandfather of the subject of this sketch moved to Kentucky, and his son came from that State to Panola County, Miss., in 1836. Mr. Vance obtained his early education at Panola schools, later studied at the Kentucky Military Institute and the University of Virginia, but left the last-named institution in 1861 to join a Missis- sippi regiment and go to the forefront of battle; he became a Lieutenant of Artillery; was commissioned Captain before the close of the struggle, and was severely wounded at the siege of Vicksburg. After the war, from 1864 to 1875, Mr. Vance was engaged in managing his plantation, and from 1875 to 1878 he was the editor of a newspaper; he is now President of the Bank of Batesville and is at the head of several local corporations. He still retains the old homestead, built in the '3os, which is in a good state of preservation and stands as a striking landmark and reminder of pioneer days. During the troubled days of reconstruction Mr. Vance was unceasingly active in his effort to break down carpet-bag rule and to restore honest government to the State. In 1876 he was made Brigadier-General of State Militia; from 1878 to 1880 he was a member of the State Senate. He is a Democrat, and has been several times Chairman of the County Executive Committee; he is Com- mander of his camp of United Confederate Veterans. He was married October 27, 1889, in Chattanooga, Tenn., to Lida Butler, daughter of William Butler and wife, Mary Butler, of Memphis. Senator and Mrs. Vance have three children: Elisha Quinsby, Calvin Brooks, Jr., and John David. He was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907.
THIRTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. Coahoma, Tunica and Quitman Counties.
BENJAMIN D. SIMPSON, of Marks, Quitman County was born November 28, 1860, at Pegram, Benton County. Miss., and is the son of Andrew S. Simpson and wife, Eleanor (Finley) Simpson; his paternal ancestors came to Missis- sippi from Tennessee; maternal from Virginia; father. Irish descent; mother, Scotch. Mr. Simpson attended the primary schools of Benton County; was at the Iuka Normal
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Institute one session; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1892; practiced at Ashland, Miss .; member of the Legislature, 1890, 1892; elected State Senator from Union, Tippah, Benton, Marshall and Tate Counties (Thirty-sixth District) November 3, 1903. Senator Simpson is a Demo- crat; Chairman of the County Committee, 1896-1900; mem- ber of Methodist Church, Mason, and unmarried. In the Senate of 1904-1908 he was a member of the following com- mittees: Claims, Military, Registration and Elections, En- grossed Bills, Public Health and Quarantine and Insurance. He removed from Ashland to Marks, where he is now engaged in the practice of law; was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907.
THIRTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. DeSoto County.
GEORGE LESLIE DARDEN, of Hernando, was born November 21, 1879, near Lodi, in Sumner (now Webster) County, Miss. He is the son of Morgan Monroe Darden and wife, Josephine Elizabeth (Hurt) Darden. Paternal ances- tors came from Alabama, maternal from South Carolina; his father was a soldier in the Confederate Army, enlisting at the age of eighteen; he moved to Mississippi soon after the close of the war. Mr. Darden obtained his education in the public schools, and early entered the field of journalism. He is now and has been since January 1, 1903, publisher and proprietor of the Hernando Times-Promoter. He was a page in the National House of Representatives in the term of the Fifty-third Congress. He is a Democrat; in the pri- mary election of August, 1907, he received twenty votes more than the combined vote of three competitors for a seat in the State Senate; was elected to the Senate November 5, 1907. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of the Masonic Order, the Protective Order of Elks and is Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Senator Darden is unmarried.
THIRTY-SIXTH DISTRICT. Union, Tippah, Benton, Marshall and Tate Counties.
WILLIAM JASPER EAST, of Senatobia, was born September 1, 1854, in Monroe County, Miss., and is the son of Josiah Robertson East and wife, Matilda (Callahan) East. His ancestors came to America from England about 1740, and settled in Henrico County, Virginia. The father of the subject of this sketch was a soldier in the war for the inde- pendence of Texas, the Mexican War and the Civil War. and serving in the Buena Vista Hornets in the Confederate Army. Mr. East attended the primary schools of Panola County, under the instruction of Capt. J. A. Rainwater and others; entered the University of Mississippi in 1879 and pursued studies two years; taught in public schools two years; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1883; located at Sena- tobia; Mayor of Senatobia, 1887-88; State Senator, 1892-94; member of House of Representatives from Tate County, 1896, 1897, 1898; Presidential Elector, 1900; elected to
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the House November 3, 1903. Mr. East is a Democrat; member of the Episcopal Church; Mason and Knight of Pythias; was married July 12, 1892, to Lula Whitten, daughter of Patrick Henry Whitten and wife, Mary Hodges. Mrs. East's father was a soldier of the Confederacy. Senator and Mrs. East have three children: Whitten, Fletcher and Lula. In the House of 1904-1908 Mr. East was a member of the following committees: Judiciary, Constitution, Regis- tration and Elections. He was elected to the Senate Novem- ber 5, 1907.
HUGH KIRBY MAHON, of Holly Springs, was born November 1, 1870, in Marshall County, Miss., and is the son of Joseph Richard Mahon and Amanda Kirby Mahon. His father served as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Marshall County for sixteen years and twelve years of that time as President of the Board; was a Confederate soldier and his grandfather was a Captain in the Mexican War. Mr. Mahon attended the public and high schools of his county, obtaining the most of his education by close appli- cation to his books on his father's farm, where he was born and reared. He took a commercial course at Memphis and was graduated in 1889, and entered the Law School of the University of Mississippi and was graduated in 1898, having taken the regular two years' work with examination required for graduation in about six and one-half months; began the practice of law at Holly Springs, Miss., his home county, in November, 1898; elected to the Legislature in 1899; re- elected in 1903, and was chosen Senator of his county No- vember 5, 1907. He is a Democrat, and has always been nominated by large majorities. He has taken a prominent part in important legislation and has been untiring in his efforts to create a sentiment for agricultural progress in the State and laws pertaining to that interest, in which he has accomplished much, and secured the location of a State Agricultural Experiment Station for his county, which is specially for the benefit of North Mississippi. He served on some of the most important committees of the House and was chairman of special and subcommittees; at his first term he was a member of tthe Bryan reception committee when Mr. Bryan visited the State by invitation of that body. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church; member of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans; member of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association; served as Chancellor Commander of his Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Consul Commander of his Camp, Woodmen of the World and Elk. Married December 19, 1898, to Mary Walker Gatewood, daughter of Capt. Lafayette Gatewood and wife, Mary Walker. Senator and Mrs. Mahon have one child, Hugh K., Jr.
SAMUEL JOSEPH OWEN, of New Albany, was born December 30, 1867, at Blue Mountain, Tippah County. Miss., the son of William Owen and wife, Caroline (Sargeant) Owen. His paternal ancestors came originally from Vir- ginia, and from that State the family scattered to Kentucky, the Carolinas and Alabama, later to Mississippi and the Southwest. Mr. Owen's father was a native of Alabama;
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his mother of Mississippi. The subject of this sketch attended the public schools in youth, but as his father died when he was in his early teens, leaving him the oldest of three children and his mother's main dependence, he had no opportunity for collegiate or professional education. He has been in politics more or less since he was about twenty- three years of age; was Clerk of Circuit Court of Tippah County 1892-95; Mayor of the town of Ripley, 1898-99; Floater Representative in Mississippi Legislature, Benton and Tippah Counties, 1900-03; was elected to the State Senate November 5, 1907. He tried the newspaper business for a time, owned and edited the Southern Sentinel at Rip- ley from 1896 to 1901; when he sold this out he entered the mercantile business; was in stores at Ripley and Blue Moun- tain; then with others organized the Union Mercantile Company of New Albany, in which he is now a director. He is a Democrat; a member of the Missionary Baptist Church; a Deacon since he was twenty-four years of age, and always prominent in Sunday-school work; is Consul Commander of Woodmen of the World. He was married September 9, 1891, at Blue Mountain to Lilla David Mc- Ateer, daughter of John David McAteer and wife, Sallie (Duncan) McAteer. His wife's ancestors came from Georgia and the Carolinas. Senator. and Mrs. Owen have eight children: 'James Robert, William Luther, Lilla Blanche, Sara Lynne, John Sargeant, Mamie Wilmouth, Samuel Joseph, Jr., and Alma Louise. Mr. Owen has always been an ardent prohibitionist, active in the suppression of "blind tigers," and other forms of lawlessness; was Secretary of the Law and Order League formed in his community some ten years ago.
THIRTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. Tishomingo, Alcorn and Prentiss Counties.
JAMES ANDY CUNNINGHAM, of Booneville, was born February 9, 1874, at New Site, Prentiss County, Miss., and is the son of Andy Cunningham and wife, Fannie (Finch) Cunningham. The father of the subject of this sketch was a soldier of the Confederacy, and served as a private in the Twenty-sixth Mississippi Regiment. Mr. Cunningham attended the primary schools of Prentiss County, under the instruction of George M. Denson, C. Elliott Billingsley and Perry G. Wright, after he had passed his nineteenth year; entered Oakland College, Itawamba County, Miss., and was graduated in 1898 with the B. S. degree; attended Iuka Normal College 1901-02; became a teacher in 1897; taught in public schools two years, two years in Oakland College and Iuka Normal, and two years in Marietta Normal; elected to the Legislature from Prentiss County, November 3, 1903. Senator Cunningham is a Democrat; member and Steward of the Methodist Church: Mason and Knight of Pythias. In the House of 1904-1908 Mr. Cunningham was a member of the following committees: Benevolent Institutions, Con- stitution, Public Education, Insurance, and Public Buildings and Grounds. He was elected to the State Senate Novem- ber 5, 1907. Senator Cunningham was married April 10, 1904, to Callie Floyd at Booneville, Miss., daughter of James
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B. and Sallie Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have two children: Floyd W. and Edith. He was graduated from Millsaps College Law School in 1906, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Booneville.
William Dozier Anderson.
THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. Monroe, Lee and Itawamba Counties.
WILLIAM DOZIER ANDERSON, of Tupelo, Lee County, Miss., son of Charles Wesley Anderson and Mary R. (Dozier) Anderson, was born July 23, 1862, at Cedar Grove, Pontotoc County, Miss. He is a lineal descendant of Andrew Anderson, who was of Scotch ancestry and came from Ire- land to America and settled in Augusta County, Va. Wil- liam Anderson, son of Andrew Anderson, was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, and after the war removed from Virginia and settled at Logan's Fort, Lincoln County, Ky. He was the father of Charles Anderson, who removed from Kentucky to Maury County, Tenn., and married Margaret Russell, a sister of Capt. John Russell, who was with Jack- son during the Indian wars. He removed from Tennessee to North Alabama in the early part of the nineteenth century and settled near Courtland, and later came to Pontotoc Coun- ty, Miss. His son, Charles Wesley Anderson, was the father of William Dozier Anderson. William Dozier Anderson's mother was a daughter of Dr. J. M. Dozier, of South Caro- lina, who was of Huguenot ancestry. His mother was a Miss Gale, sister of Governor Gale, of Alabama, and his grandmother was a Miss Billups. He married Louisa Gray while a resident of Alabama. His father was a soldier of the Revolution and kept a diary, which is still in the family. William Dozier Anderson received his early educational training at Birmingham, Lee County, Miss., after which he attended Central University at Richmond, Ky. He studied law at the University of Mississippi, sessions of 1881 and 1882, and later stood the bar examination and was ad- mitted to practice, locating at Tupelo, where he has since re- mained. He is City and County Attorney; attorney for the M. & O. R. R .; was Alderman of Tupelo one term and Mayor from 1899 to 1907. He was a member of the Mississippi Legis- lature in 1898, filling the unexpired term of Col. Wilson as Floater Representative of Lee and Itawamba Counties; was a member of Judiciary and Ways and Means Commit- tees. He was nominated for Presidential Elector for the State at large in 1904, but declined, as his acceptance would have been unconstitutional, since he already held office. Governor Longino appointed him special Judge of the Su- preme Court in Judge Calhoon's place, and appointed by Governor Vardaman special Judge in the Circuit Court at Booneville in 1906. He has served as delegate to the Demo- cratic State Convention for many years; is a Director of the Mississippi Bar Association; has been Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for ten years; is a deacon in the Presbyterian Church and is a member of Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor. On November 5, 1907, he was elected to the State Senate. Senator Anderson was married to Lena Bell Clayton, daughter of W. L. Clayton
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and wife, Agnes Bell, of Tupelo, January 27, 1886. They have five children: Clayton, John Russell, Mary Agnes, Lena Bell and Charles.
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