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James Zachariah George

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
James Zachariah George 1826-97, American jurist and legislator, b. Monroe co., Ga. He moved to Mississippi in 1834 and, after serving in the Mexican War, became a prominent lawyer. He was long a reporter and later (1879-81) chief justice of the state supreme court. A signer of Mississippi's secession ordinance and a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, he was a leader in the struggle for white supremacy in Mississippi during the Reconstruction period. George wrote the "grandfather clause," which effectively ended black suffrage, in the Mississippi constitution of 1890. He later... Read more
James Zachariah George
James Zachariah George The American politican and jurist James Zachariah George (1826-1897) was one of Mississippi's strongest white-supremacy statesmen in the Reconstruction era. James George was born on Oct. 20, 1826, in Monroe County, Ga... Read more
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...repeal in 1766. Bone of Contention. Lord George Grenville introduced the Stamp Act resolution...resignation of most distributors, including George Meserve of New Hampshire, Augustus Johnston of Rhode Island, James McEvers of New York, William Coxe of New Jersey, Zachariah Hood of Maryland, ... Read more

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