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Yazoo land fraud
Yazoo land fraud name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi. The companies involved were th... Read more
legislature
legislature representative assembly empowered to enact statute law. Generally the representatives who compose a legislature are constitutionally elected by a broad spectrum of the population. Types of Legislatures Two common types of legislature are those in which the executive and the le... Read more
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 1816-94, American politician and Union general in the Civil War, b. Waltham, Mass. After serving in the Massachusetts legislature (1849-53), Banks entered Congress as a Democrat, was returned in 1855 as a Know-Nothing and became speaker of the House, and was reelected in 18... Read more
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham 1811-79, American genre painter and politician, b. Augusta co., Va. His family moved (1819) to Missouri, which was the site of most of Bingham's activities. In 1837 he studied for a short time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1856 to 1859 he traveled in Europe... Read more
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass 1782-1866, American statesman, b. Exeter, N.H. He established (1802) himself as a lawyer in Zanesville, Ohio, became a member (1806) of the state legislature, and was U.S. marshal for Ohio from 1807 to 1812. In the War of 1812, Cass's command was included against his will in the forces t... Read more
John Anthony Quitman
John Anthony Quitman 1798-1858, American general and politician, b. Rhinebeck, N.Y. He settled in Natchez, Miss., where he practiced law and held a series of political offices, serving in the state legislature and as acting governor (1835-36). As a brigadier general (promoted to major general in 18... Read more
legislative apportionment
legislative apportionment subdivision of a political body (e.g., a state or province) for the purpose of electing legislative representatives. In the United States, the Constitution requires that Congressional representatives be elected on the basis of population. State legislatures, not bound by t... Read more
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1793-1864, American ethnologist, b. near Albany, N.Y. He gave enormous impetus to the study of Native American culture and may be regarded as the foremost pioneer in Native American studies. As a young man, Schoolcraft abandoned his family's glassmaking business and made a jo... Read more
Five Civilized Tribes
Five Civilized Tribes inclusive term used since mid-19th cent. for the Cherokee , Chickasaw , Choctaw , Creek , and Seminole tribes of E Oklahoma. By 1850 some 60,000 members of these tribes were settled in the Indian Territory under the Removal Act of 1830, which provided that this territo... Read more
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr 1756-1836, American political leader, b. Newark, N.J., grad. College of New Jersey (now Princeton). Political Career A brilliant law student, Burr interrupted his study to serve in the American Revolution and proved himself a valiant soldier in early campaigns. In 1779 ill heal... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mississippi Legislature"

Mississippi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Mississippi , one of the Deep South...Government and Higher Education Mississippi is governed under the 1890...constitution. The bicameral legislature consists of 52 senators...Kirk Fordice was elected Mississippi's first Republican governor...
Henry Stuart Foote
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and win-a seat in the Mississippi state legislature. Representing Hinds County...extended even to his own Mississippi colleagues, including the...fellow legislators and the Mississippi legislature passed a resolution censuring...
Black Codes
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...controlled through vigilantism, Mississippi whites began passing laws to...employed" by someone else. The Mississippi legislature next passed a vagrancy law...what they earned." Another Mississippi law required African Americans...
Ellen S. Woodward
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...who lived in Louisville, Mississippi. Soon after she moved there...her husband's term in the Mississippi legislature. She was the third woman to...a promotional job with the Mississippi State Board of Development...
Jackson: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...S. Congress established Mississippi's state government at this...separated from its role as Mississippi's capital. In little more...historic opening session of the Mississippi state legislature in December 1822. A second...
William Dunbar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...meteorological observations in the Mississippi Valley. Dunbar attracted...Sessions and as a member of the Mississippi territorial legislature. His most important writing...The Pioneer Scientist of Mississippi (1899). Additional material...
John Grisham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Steinbeck. Grisham later attended Mississippi State University, where he...tax law at the University of Mississippi dampened his interest, however...Grisham was elected to the Mississippi state legislature, where he served as a Democrat...
Cayton, Susie Sumner Revels
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He was elected to the state legislature in Mississippi during the postwar period...Washington ended, he returned to Mississippi with his family, and became...been born into slavery in Mississippi, spent several years at Alcorn...
Stone v. Mississippi
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U.S. 814 (1880...Civil War government of Mississippi had granted to a corporation...the lottery, which the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld...Court held that the state legislature could not bargain away...
Columbia: Education and Research
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...was the first public university west of the Mississippi. Columbia College, a private, coeducational...was the first women's college west of the Mississippi to be chartered by a state legislature. It changed its name in 1970 when it went...

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Hindman, Thomas Carmichael
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...He fought with the Army of Mississippi at Prairie Grove (1862...before returning to the Trans-Mississippi, where he spent the remainder...before the war, serving in the Mississippi state legislature (1854) and in Congress as...
Fletcher v. Peck
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...officials, the Georgia legislature was persuaded in 1795 to...the states of Alabama and Mississippi. In 1796 a newly elected legislature passed an act annulling...grants by the Georgia state legislature. Fletcher sued Peck for...
Charters, Municipal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...dreams of cityhood. From 1803 to 1848 the legislature of sparsely populated Mississippi awarded charter privileges to 105 municipalities...the endorsement of local voters. The state legislature would not be responsible for enacting the...
Montgomery Convention
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...America. Representatives from six states (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana) declared the convention a provisional legislature, established a government without waiting for constitutional ratification...
Yazoo Fraud
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...history. In 1795 the Georgia legislature sold 35 million acres of...present states of Alabama and Mississippi, to four land companies...the newly elected Georgia legislature revoked the sale. Georgia...themselves into the New England Mississippi Land Company and applied...
Louisiana
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Arkansas; to the east by the Mississippi and Pearl Rivers and the state of Mississippi; and to the south by...institutions, such as a colonial legislature, that could limit either...Louisiana east of the Mississippi River to England, an
Fox-Wisconsin Waterway
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...travel from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. Sometimes the area separating...1836 the Wisconsin territorial legislature requested help from the United...steamboat to make its way from the Mississippi to Green Bay. By 1866 the Fox...
Land Speculation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...over great tracts in the Mississippi Valley. The Mississippi, the Georgiana, the Wabash...Yazoo River country by the legislature of Georgia to four companies...cents an acre. The next legislature canceled the sale, but the...
Territorial Governments
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...River and westward to the Mississippi. Under its terms the territories...inhabitants could then establish a legislature consisting of a house of...adjourn, and dissolve the legislature, and could exercise a veto...two-thirds vote of the legislature could override his veto...
Granger Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...growing region of the upper Mississippi Valley. The grievances that...bushel to send grain from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic seaboard...late 1860s, and in 1869 the legislature of Illinois passed an act...constitution in which the legislature was authorized to make laws...

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GOV. BARBOUR ISSUES STATEMENT ON FAILURE OF LEGISLATURE TO REAUTHORIZE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...that the failure of the Legislature to reauthorize the Mississippi Department of Employment...Asked Questions The Mississippi Legislature's failure to reauthorize...about the funds the Mississippi Legislature appropriated to MDES...
Mississippi to rein in expensive verdicts Legislature tries to erase reputation for sky-high payouts
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/27/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Baria, president of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association...Corporate America came to the Mississippi Legislature and said, 'Don't...your people' and the Legislature bent to the pressure." Mississippi has been the site of...
Judge: Mississippi Legislature Must OK 'Ayers' Settlement.
Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer; 1/8/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the record from the Mississippi State Legislature, indicating whether the Legislature endorses this Proposal...Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley universities...Biggers concluded. The Mississippi Legislature convenes today, facing...
Businesses also affected by sovereign immunity ruling; court decision throws issue to State Legislature. (part 1)(Mississippi Supreme Court)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 9/21/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...a Special Session of the Mississippi Legislature was conveying. An analysis...two of this article.) The Mississippi Supreme Court, by its recent...until 1984 to afford the Mississippi Legislature time to enact a statutory...
Analysis: Mississippi Legislature reconvenes a special session later this week aimed at reducing lawsuits against businesses
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 10/28/2002; ; 700+ words ; 00-00-0000 Analysis: Mississippi Legislature reconvenes a special session later this week...10:00-11:00 AM BOB EDWARDS, host: The Mississippi Legislature reconvenes a special session later this week...
Mississippi Legislature Tackles Issue of Tort Reform.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/5/2002; 700+ words ; ...specific suggestions to the Legislature for the content of civil...candidate to suggest to the Legislature the content of the statutes...legal responsibility of the Legislature to determine what's in...a lifelong member of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association...
Sovereign immunity to be issue in 1993 session: public bodies still liable in contract breech suits. (Mississippi Legislature to debate over state immunity from civil liability)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 9/28/1992; ; 700+ words ; The Mississippi Legislature on September 16...employees. The Legislature, in a one-day...decision of the Mississippi Supreme Court in Presley v. Mississippi State Highway...recognized that the Legislature could create immunity...
It's official: Barbour for Governor; among reasons for running, 'The Legislature is starving for strong leadership from the governor,' says Republican contender.(interview of Haley Barbour, who is running for governor of Mississippi)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal; 2/17/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...solving problems. The Legislature and governor can have...relationship between the Legislature and the governor...strategist, do you think Mississippi is primed for its...switchers in the Mississippi Legislature? HB: Those who...
MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN FACULTY MEMBER, STUDENT RECOGNIZED BY MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/20/2007; 478 words ; ...from 36 Mississippi public and private universities who received special recognition from the Mississippi Legislature. "The Mississippi Legislature, the corporate community and others involved in higher education are given the opportunity to...
Mississippi Legislature Files $742M of New Debt Bills.
Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer; 1/16/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...BRADENTON, Fla. -- As the Mississippi Legislature enters its third week in session...burden. "The good news is that Mississippi taxpayers have less debt today...obligation bonds. Reeves urged the Legislature to take a cautious approach...