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 2024-08-21.
- ^ 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 2022-09-10.
- ^ 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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