John
Francis Hamtramck Claiborne (1807-1884)
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Birthplace
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Natchez, Miss. |
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Occupation
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Lawyer |
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House 1835-38
(D-Mississippi) |
Newspapers
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Natchez
Statesman and Gazette, ca. 1820s (D) |
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Mississippi
Free Trader and Natchez Gazette, ca. late 1830s-early 1840s (D) |
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New
Orleans Jeffersonian, 1844-46, Statesman, 1849-51, Louisiana
Courier, 1850-53 (D) |
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Federal
appointments
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Chairman,
Board of Choctaw Commissioners, 1842-44 (Tyler) |
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U.S.
timber agent for Louisiana and Mississippi, 1853 (Pierce) |
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Other offices
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Mississippi
House of Representatives, 1830-34 |
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Notes
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Regarded
as the "father of Mississippi history" for writing Mississippi
as a Province, Territory, and State, with Biographical Notices of
Eminent Citizens (1880). He also wrote biographies of Gov.
John A. Quitman and Gen. Sam Dale. |
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