Hampton Jarnagin
Hampton L. Jarnagin (1811/1812 – 1887) was an American lawyer, judge, and state legislator in Mississippi.
Jarnagin was born in 1811 or 1812 in Eastern Tennessee.[1] Spencer Jarnagin was his brother.[2]
Jarnagin built Belle Oakes in 1844.[3] He spoke of the amnesty granted by U.S. president Andrew Johnson to Confederates.[4] At Mississippi's 1865 Constitutional Convention, he said Mississippi was abolitionized.[5] In 1872, he gave extensive testimony on conditions, events, and affairs he witnessed before and after the American Civil War at a congressional inquiry.[6]
Jarnagin represented Noxubee County in the Mississippi House of Representatives.[7] He represented the 17th District in the Mississippi State Senate from 1880 to 1884.[8][9]
Jarnagin died in 1887.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Image 283 of Journal of the proceedings and debates in the Constitutional Convention of the state of Mississippi, August 1865". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
- ^ Southern Historical Association (1895). Memoirs of Georgia : containing historical accounts of the state's civil, military, industrial and professional interests, and personal sketches of many of its people. Southern Historical Association. p. 836. OCLC 1702523.
- ^ Kempe, Helen Kerr (1977). The Pelican guide to old homes of Mississippi. Pelican Publishing Company. Gretna, La.: Pelican Pub. Co. pp. 5–6. ISBN 0-88289-134-0. OCLC 2799036.
- ^ Mathisen, Erik (2018). The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America. Project MUSE. Chapel Hill. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4696-3634-4. OCLC 1028905649.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ranney, Joseph A. (2019). A legal history of Mississippi : race, class, and the struggle for opportunity. Jackson. ISBN 978-1-4968-2259-8. OCLC 1076374596.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ United States. Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1872). Report of and testimony. Washington. pp. 513–544. OCLC 29619457.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ United States (1875). United States Congressional Serial Set. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 148. OCLC 191710879.
- ^ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1880). "1880 Senate". Mississippi House Journal. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 198.
- ^ Memoirs of Georgia: Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People. Southern Historical Association. 1895. pp. 835–836.
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