Mississippi s Governors
TROUBLED GOVERNORS
Henry Stuart Foote
(1804-1880) Born in Fauquier County Va. , February 28 1804 U.S. Senator from
Mississippi Governor of Mississippi Representative from
Tennessee in the Confederate Congress duels Alabama escape
prosecution for dueling. Exchanged blows with Thomas Hart Benton Expelled from the Confederate
Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized peace mission. Died
in Nashville , Davidson County Tenn. , May 19 1880 Mt. Olivet Cemetery Nashville , Tenn. congressional biography
Charles Clark (1810-1877)
Born February 19 1810 Mississippi 1860 Governor of Mississippi removed from office by U.S.
troops, and imprisoned at Fort
Pulaski , Savannah ,
Ga. Died in Bolivar County Miss. , December 18 1877 a private or family
graveyard Bolivar
County
John Jones Pettus (1813-1867) Brother of Edmund Winston Pettus October 9 1813 Governor of Mississippi fugitive ; the manhunt continued until his death in Pulaski County Ark. , in early 1867 reinterment
at Flat Bayou Burial Ground Wabbaseka , Jefferson County , Ark.
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
(1808-1882) Father of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys
(1865-1923) Claiborne County Miss. , August 26 1808 Mississippi state
legislature Mississippi state senate Governor of Mississippi Physically ejected from the governor's office by an armed
force under the orders of the U.S.
military commander of Mississippi Leflore County Miss. , December 20 1882 Greenwood Cemetery Miss . Humphreys County, Miss.
Lee Maurice Russell
(1875-1943) Born in Dallas , Lafayette County Miss. , November 16 1875 Governor of Mississippi Charged by a former stenographer with breach of promise and
seduction; tried in federal court, where a jury found in his favor.
Died May 16 1943 Lakewood Memorial Park Jackson
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo
(1877-1947) -- also known as Theodore G. Bilbo -- of Jackson, Hinds County Poplarville , Pearl River County Poplarville , Pearl River County October 13 1877 Mississippi state senate Lieutenant Governor of
Mississippi Governor of Mississippi 1928 1940 U.S. Senator from
Mississippi Baptist Freemasons Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization ,
which advocated deportation of all American blacks to Africa .
In 1947, the Senate refused to seat him, and started an investigation
of his 1946 re-election campaign. Died, of mouth cancer hospital New Orleans , Orleans Parish La. August 21 1947 Juniper Grove Cemetery Poplarville , Pearl River County congressional biography
