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Samuel Winter Martien (November 12, 1854 – May 31, 1946) was a wealthy cotton planter [1] who served as a Democrat from 1906 to 1920 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from his adopted Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana. [2] At the time, each Louisiana parish regardless of population had at least one representative.
Natchez: 2020 Adams, Amite, Franklin, Pike Previously served from 2012–2015 38 Tammy Witherspoon: Dem Magnolia: 2016 Adams, Amite, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson Resigned June 30, 2021 [7] Kelvin Butler: Dem McComb: 2021 [b] 39 Jason Barrett: Rep Brookhaven: 2020 Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Walthall 40 Angela Burks Hill: Rep Picayune: 2012 Marion ...
Spain and England met here. Hope Farm, charming in its simplicity, had a section built in 1775, when the English owned the Natchez area. Then, in 1790, the Spanish Governor Carlos de Grand Pré added the gallery with its ornamented, sturdy columns. The building shows a merger of two different elements of building, and of two varying cultures. [3]
Marsaw told the Natchez Democrat Saturday evening that she “got overwhelmed in the moment” and that she is “a diehard Democrat,” adding that her post was meant for comic value and not to ...
From 1958 to 1964, he taught and coached in the Natchez public school system and was an elementary principal from 1965 to 1966. [2] In 1966, Dearing was named as Outstanding Young Man of the Year by the Natchez Jaycees. [4] In 1997, Dearing was named as the Outstanding Alumnus of 1997 by Delta State University. [5]
Dorie Ann Ladner (June 28, 1942 – March 11, 2024) was an American civil rights activist and social worker. Along with her sister Joyce, she was a leading community organizer in Mississippi for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s.
The Natchez Trace Parkway Land Conveyance Act of 2013 (S. 304; 113th Congress) is a bill that was sponsored and actively lobbied for by Thad Cochran during the 113th United States Congress. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] The bill would require the National Park Service (NPS) to convey about 67 acres of property in the Natchez Trace Parkway to the state of ...
Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. [3] Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.