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James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish "scalawag", he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race. Alcorn was the first elected Republican ...
James Lusk Alcorn: Twenty-eighth Governor of Mississippi: March 1870 to November 1871 - 2003-12. by David Sansing / December 2003. Theme and Time Period. Governors and Senators. Cotton Kingdom, 1833–1865. The World Remade, 1866–1902. James L. Alcorn was Mississippi’s first elected Republican governor.
About. JAMES L. ALCORN, the twenty-eighth governor of Mississippi, was born near Golconda, Illinois on November 4, 1816. His education was attained at Cumberland College in Kentucky. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844, and then established his legal career in Delta, Mississippi.
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White men supported more moderate candidates, such as James L. Alcorn, who served as governor from 1870 to 1871 before being appointed to the U.S. Senate. Alcorn was born in the North but moved to Mississippi in the 1840s and enslaved nearly a hundred people.
James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish "scalawag", he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race. Alcorn was the first elected Republican ...
James Lusk Alcorn (1816-1894) was a prominent member of the Whig party in Mississippi before the Civil War. After the war he became a leader of the Republican party in his state and served as governor and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction period.
Born in Illinois but raised in Kentucky, James L. Alcorn (1816-1894) became Mississippi's first Reconstruction governor, and perhaps the era's most prominent "scalawag," or Southern white Republican. Alcorn in 1844 moved to Mississippi, where he married a planter's daughter, and became one of the largest landowners in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
