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Theme and Time Period. Governors and Senators. Forging Ahead, 1946–Present. The office of governor is the only public office Ross Barnett ever held and the only political office for which he ever campaigned. He is also one of only two Mississippians who ran for the office four times.
Nov 8, 1987 · November 7, 1987 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett, 89, who refused 25 years ago to let a black man enroll in the University of Mississippi and precipitated one of the...
The office of governor is the only public office Ross Barnett ever held and the only political office for which he ever campaigned. He is also one of only two Mississippians who ran for the office four times. He ran and lost in 1951 and 1955, he was elected in 1959, and he ran again […]
Feb 2, 2010 · Ross Barnett. State officials, including Governor Ross Barnett, attempted to defy the Supreme Court decision, provoking a constitutional crisis between the state of Mississippi and the...
BARNETT, Ross Robert (b. 22 January 1898 in Standing Pine, Mississippi; d. 6 November 1987 in Jackson, Mississippi), governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964 and a staunch segregationist who defied the federal government in September 1962 when he blocked the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.
About. ROSS R. BARNETT, the fifty-second governor of Mississippi, was born in Standing Pine, Leake County, Mississippi on January 22, 1898. His education was attained at Mississippi College, where he graduated in 1922, and at the University of Mississippi, where he earned a law degree in 1926.
Barnett, governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964 known for his opposition to civil rights and integration, discusses his conflicts with the federal government over civil rights, his opposition to integrating Mississippi schools and universities, and Mississippi’s economics during his governorship, among other issues. Access. Open.
