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Dec 11, 2019 · Pinckney Benton Stewart (P. B.S.) Pinchback became the first African-American to serve as governor of any American state. He was born May 10, 1837 in Macon, Georgia, U.S as a freeborn black...
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer. Pinchback was the first African American governor of a U.S. state and the second lieutenant governor (after Oscar Dunn).
Blanche K. Bruce (R-Miss., 1875-1881) The first was Blanche Kelso Bruce, a 34-year-old former slave born in Virginia to a black enslaved mother and a white plantation owner. Educated...
May: First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May until August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi. (see also: Douglas Wilder, 1990)
Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from land ceded to the federal government by Georgia. [13] It had four governors appointed by the president of the United States during its 19-year history, including one, David Holmes, who would later serve as state governor.
No.GovernorGovernorGovernor65Tate Reeves (b. 1974) [203]January 14, 2020 [204] – Incumbent ...64Phil Bryant (b. 1954) [201]January 10, 2012 [202] – January 14, 2020 ...63Haley Barbour (b. 1947) [199]January 13, 2004 [200] – January 10, 2012 ...62Ronnie Musgrove (b. 1956) [196]January 11, 2000 [197] – January 13, 2004 ...The governor of Mississippi is the head of the executive branch of Mississippi's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Alexander K. Davis became the state’s first African American lieutenant governor before being impeached in 1875 as part of the Mississippi Plan to return government to white Democrats. Photo courtesty of Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi website at Mississippi State University Libraries.
