The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . of his county by Gov. James L. Alcorn in 1870;was elected in 1871 and re-elected in 1873 to the sameottice, commanding the solid support of his ownparty and the conservative elemen
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . of his county by Gov. James L. Alcorn in 1870;was elected in 1871 and re-elected in 1873 to the sameottice, commanding the solid support of his ownparty and the conservative element of the opposingparty. Being defeated in what is known there asthe political revolution of 1875, he entered a mer-cantile establishment as bookkeeper, serving at thesame time as mayor of the county town, to whichoffice he was elected without his solicitation. Heremoved to Summit, in the same county, in 1878,was appointed postmaster there and served in thatcapacity for about seven years, canying on a mer-cantile business also. His successor was appointedunder President Clevelands administration, and was for nearly five years the southern travel-ing agent for the Collins Bros, drug company, of , Mo. During these years, however, he wasprominently identified with the politics of his state,serving as a member of the state republican executivecommittee, and as a candidate for representative to. -^C,yn4r4uj^^ the legislature was defeated by what is known as theMississippi plan. In May, 1890, upon the nomi-nation of the governor of his state, he was appointedby President Harrison as alternate commissioner tothe International exhibition at Chicago, and in De-cember of the same year was appointed by the presi-dent to the office of marshal of the United States forthe southern district of Mississippi, which positionhe now holds. He is married and has four sons andfour daughters ; is a gentleman of high social stand-ing, and by his efficiency and probity of charactercom
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