Obediah Crew French was a state legislator in Mississippi.[1] He was a Republican.[2] He and other Republican legislators were ridiculed in the Natchez Democrat.[3] Z. P. Landrum, a fellow legislator, called him a low-bred carpet bag cur. He served as Mississippi's commissioner for the U.S. Centennial.[4]
He was from Ohio and served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[5] He represented Adams County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1875, serving with John R. Lynch.[6]
He lost a state senate election to T. P. Gore in Oklahoma.[5]
He married Mary Carey Fowler May 1, 1856 in Ravenna, Ohio.[7]
References
edit- ^ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (March 10, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
- ^ "1870 State Representative". The Weekly Mississippi Pilot. March 12, 1870. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Vicksburg Herald, July 31, 1875 – Against All Odds".
- ^ Noe, Jack D. (October 6, 2021). Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807176160 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French: Who Came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England and Settled in Berlinton (Burlington), in the Province and Country of West New Jersey, of which He was One of the Original Proprietors, Together with William Penn, Edward Byllynge, Thomas Olive, Gauen Laurie and Others ..." Higginson Book Company. March 10, 1913 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (March 11, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. R.H. Henry & Company. ISBN 9780788448218 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French: Who Came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England and Settled in Berlinton, Burlington, in the Province and Country of West New Jersey, of which He was One of the Original Proprietors, Together with William Penn, Edward Byllynge, Thomas Olive, Gauen Laurie and Others". 1913.