1916–1920 Mississippi Legislature
The 1916-1920 (or 84th)[1] Mississippi Legislature met in three sessions, from January to April 1916, from September to October 1917, and from January to March 1918.[2] 45 senators and 133 representatives were in each session.[1]
District apportionment
Senate
In the 1916 session, the Senate was made of 38 senatorial districts.[1] After the constitutional amendment of 1916, 4 more districts were added.[1] Some districts had more than one representative.[1]
House
From 1916 to 1920, each county served as a district with representatives. There were some floater representatives that served between two different counties.[1]
Party breakdown
Senate
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Democratic Party | 45 | |
Other party* | 0 | |
Seat Vacant** | 0 | |
Total | 45 |
House of Representatives
Affiliation | Members | |
---|---|---|
Democratic Party | 132 | |
Other party* | 1 | |
Seat Vacant** | 0 | |
Total | 133 |
Officers
Senate
Presiding Officer
Position | Name | Party | District | |
---|---|---|---|---|
President | Lee M. Russell | Democratic Party | n/a | |
President Pro Tempore | Carroll Kendrick | Democratic Party | 37 |
House of Representatives
Presiding Officer
Position | Name | Party | County | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Speaker of the House | Martin S. Conner | Democratic Party | Covington |
Members of the Mississippi State Senate, 1916-1920
Members of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1916-1920
County | Name | Party | Full terms of office | Residence |
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Adams | Walter G. Green | D | 1916–1920 | Natchez |
L. T. Kennedy | D | 1918–1932 | Natchez | |
Albert B. Sojourner | D | 1916–1924 | Natchez | |
Alcorn | Robert B. Cotton[b] (1916) | D | 1911–1917 | Corinth |
J. R. Hill (1918) | D | 1917-1920 | ||
John B. Splann | D | 1916–1920 | Kendrick | |
Amite | John F. Cassels | D | 1916–1920 | Gloster |
Drury Wall | D | 1916–1920 | Peoria | |
Attala | James C. Wasson | D | 1916–1920 | Ethel |
Icey W. Day | D | 1916–1920; 1932–1940; 1944–1952 | Ethel | |
Benton | Roderick McGill | D | 1916–1920 | Falkner |
Bolivar | Walter Sillers, Jr. | D | 1916–1966 | Rosedale |
Stanley F. Gaines | D | 1916–1920 | Boyle | |
Calhoun | John B. Going | D | 1908–1920, 1940-1948 | Calhoun City |
Dennis Murphree | D | 1911–1924 | Pittsboro | |
Carroll | George I. Redditt | D | 1916–1920 | McCarley |
Lafayette J. Lott | D | 1916–1920 | Grenada | |
Chickasaw | Irvin Abernathy | D | 1916-1925 | Okolona |
Eugene Verrell | D | 1916-1920 | Houston | |
Choctaw | Carlton A. Lindsey | D | 1908-1920; 1928-1932 | Eupora |
Claiborne | Talbert Luster | D | 1912-1920 | Utica |
Clarke | Howard L. Miller | D | 1916-1920 | Quitman |
Clay | Barney S. Semmelman (1916)[c] | D | 1916-1917 | West Point |
J. A. McArthur (1918) | 1917-1920 | West Point | ||
Frank B. Stephens | D | 1916-1920 | West Point | |
Coahoma | Oscar G. Johnston | D | 1908-1920 | Clarksdale |
Robert L. Ralston | D | 1916-1920 | Coahoma | |
Copiah | John A. Smylie | D | 1916-1920 | Crystal Springs |
Benjamin King | D | 1916-1920 | Hazlehurst | |
George W. Russell | D | 1916-1924 | Hazlehurst | |
Covington | Martin Sennet Conner | D | 1916-1924 | Seminary |
DeSoto | Dalton F. Warren | D | 1916-1920 | Olive Branch |
John C. Lauderdale | D | 1916-1920 | Bright | |
Forrest | Elisha A. Anderson | D | 1912- | Hattiesburg |
Franklin | Charles A. Everett | D | 1916-1920 | Monroe |
George | Luther W. Maples | D | 1916-1920 | Clarence |
Greene | William I. McLain | D | 1916-1920 | Richton |
Grenada | William Aylmer Winter | D | 1916-1924 | Grenada |
Hancock | Robert L. Genin | D | 1912-1920; 1926-1928 | Bay St. Louis |
Harrison | Ernest E. O'Neal | D | 1916- | Saucier |
Hinds | Verell P. Ferguson | D | 1912-1923 | Learned |
Edward H. Green | D | 1916- | Jackson | |
John Sivley Rhodes | D | 1916- | Jackson | |
Holmes | Thomas G. Stephenson | D | 1912- | Lexington |
Leland N. White | D | 1916- | Lexington | |
Henry H. Johnson | D | 1916- | Lexington | |
Issaquena | Robert E. Foster | D | 1912-1931 | Shiloh |
Itawamba | William C. Gray | D | 1916- | Fulton |
Jackson | William R. David | D | 1916- | Carterville |
Jasper | Henry Lloyd Finch | D | 1916-1924 | Heidelberg |
Jefferson | William M. Darden | D | 1912- | McNair |
Jefferson Davis | Oliver C. Luper | D | 1916- | Prentiss |
Jones | James H. Bush | D | 1912- | Laurel |
Kemper | Joseph J. Daniel | D | 1916- | DeKalb |
Edmund J. Irby | D | 1916- | Scooba | |
Lafayette | David F. Hoyle | D | 1916- | Paris |
Henry L. Davis | D | 1916-1920; 1924-1928 | Tula | |
Lamar | John A. Yeager | D | 1916-1932 | Lumberton |
Lauderdale | Thomas L. Bailey | D | 1916-1940 | Meridian |
Willis M. Taylor | D | 1916-1920 | Meridian | |
Jesse D. Bounds | D | 1916-1920; 1928-1932 | Bailey | |
Lawrence | Charles E. Gibson | D | 1916- | Monticello |
Leake | Martin M. Miller | D | 1916-1920 | Edinburg |
Lee | Frank L. Kincannon | D | 1916- | Tupelo |
James S. Howerton | D | 1912- | Baldwyn | |
Leflore | William S. Barry | D | 1888-1892; 1916-1920 | Greenwood |
Lincoln | John F. Cole | D | 1916- | Bogue Chitto |
Lowndes | John F. Frierson | D | 1916- | Columbus |
Dabney L. Ervin | D | 1912- | Columbus | |
Joseph R. Thomas | D | 1916- | Columbus | |
Madison | John B. Dendy | D | 1912- | Pickens |
Tip Ray | D | 1916- | Canton | |
Marion | Ethelbert I. Singley | I | 1916-1920 | Columbia |
Marshall | William W. Stamps | D | 1916- | Colliersville, TN |
Wilfred I. Spears | D | 1916- | Byhalia | |
John A. Hardin | D | 1916- | Potts Camp | |
Monroe | William H. Kolb | D | 1916- | Aberdeen |
William L. C. Bailey | D | 1916- | Aberdeen | |
Arna A. Tubb | D | 1916- | Amory | |
Montgomery | Elijah M. Thompson | D | 1912- | Winona |
Neshoba | Thomas B. Williams | D | 1916- | Philadelphia |
Newton | Nathan M. Everett | D | 1912- | Hickory |
Bennie W. Dearing | D | 1916- | Newton | |
Noxubee | Thomas W. Brame | D | 1912- | Macon |
Clinton E. Dorroh | D | 1916- | Macon | |
Prince DeWitt Hubbard | D | 1916- | Shuqualak | |
Oktibbeha | Joseph S. Rice | D | 1916- | Starkville |
John D. Greene Jr. | D | 1916- | Sturgis | |
Panola | Albert Sidney Kyle | D | 1900-1912; 1916- | Batesville |
Felix H. Nelson | D | 1916- | Pope | |
Robert T. Keys | D | 1916- | Sardis | |
Pearl River | Jess E. Stockstill | D | 1916- | Picayune |
Perry | Gabriel D. Draughn | D | 1916- | New Augusta |
Pike | Joseph E. Norwood | D | 1916- | Magnolia |
Fenelon D. Hewitt | D | 1916- | McComb | |
Pontotoc | William T. Stegall | D | 1896- | Pontotoc |
Frank Roberson | D | 1916-1917 | Pontotoc | |
Thomas J. Wingo | D | 1917- | Toccopola | |
Prentiss | Robert E. L. Sutherland | D | 1916- | Wheeler |
Bartho L. Breedlove | D | 1916- | Booneville | |
Quitman | Ula B. Ross | D | 1916-1920 | Lambert |
Rankin | William E. McIntyre | D | 1916- | Brandon |
Richard H. Watts | D | 1916- | Pelahatchie | |
Scott | William L. Weems | D | Sun | |
Sharkey | Samuel B. Alexander | D | 1916- | Rolling Fork |
Simpson | William F. Stroud | D | 1916- | Pinola |
Smith | Henry C. Thornton | D | 1916- | Taylorville |
Stone | A. Batson | D | 1916-1920 | |
Sunflower | Arthur B. Clark | D | 1916-1924 | Indianola |
Tallahatchie | Rowe Hays | D | 1916- | Sumner |
Tate | William J. East | D | 1896-1900; 1904-1908; 1916–1920 | Senatobia |
Servetus L. Crockett | D | 1916- | Tyro | |
Tippah | William R. Wildman | D | 1916- | Ripley |
Tishomingo | James R. Mann | D | 1916- | Iuka |
Tunica | James M. Anderson | D | 1916- | Tunica |
Union | John N. Magill | D | 1916- | Bethany |
Sam J. Purvis | D | 1916- | Blue Springs | |
Walthall | William W. Pope | D | Tylertown | |
Warren | Thomas R. Foster | D | 1902-1912; 1916- | Vicksburg |
George R. Hawkins | D | 1908-1912; 1916- | Vicksburg | |
Robert L. C. Barret | D | 1916- | Vicksburg | |
Washington | Alfred H. Stone | D | 1916-1924 | Dunleith Plantation |
Alexander G. Paxton | D | 1916- | Greenville | |
Walter S. Knotts | D | 1916- | Belzoni | |
Wayne | Grover C. Clark | D | 1916- | Heidelberg |
Webster | Solon S. Gore | D | 1916- | Embry |
Wilkinson | James R. Hutcheson | D | 1916- | Centerville |
C. T. Netterville, Jr. | D | 1916- | Wilkinson | |
Winston | Frank McGehee Glenn | D | 1916- | Noxapater |
Yalobusha | George E. Denley | D | 1916- | Coffeeville |
William A. Nolen | D | 1916- | Water Valley | |
Yazoo | Benjamin F. Roberts | D | 1916- | Satartia |
Patrick C. Meagher | D | 1916-1920 | Yazoo City | |
Excell Coody | D | 1916- | Phoenix | |
Franklin & | Fred A. Wright | D | 1916- | Lucien |
Tippah & | Frederick B. Smith | D | 1916- | Ripley |
Claiborne & Jefferson | Samuel R. Young | D | 1916- | Pattison |
Clarke & | William L. West | D | 1916- | Vossburg |
Grenada & Montgomery | William H. Dyre | D | 1916-1920 | Winona |
Leake & Winston | John C. Holton | D | 1916- | Louisville |
Harrison & Jackson | John M. Hairston | D | 1916- | Gulfport |
Lee & Itawamba | Robert S. Sheffield | D | 1916- | Dorsey |
Yazoo & Hinds | Dr. Virgil M. Perry | D | 1916- | Satartia |
R. S. Bowman | D | 1916- | Benton |
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History.
- ^ "2016-2020 MISSISSIPPI BLUE BOOK". www.sos.ms.gov. Archived from the original on 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
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