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James Zachariah George (* 20. Oktober 1826 im Monroe County, Georgia; † 14. August 1897 in Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1881 und 1897 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Mississippi im US-Senat .
James Zachariah George (October 20, 1826 – August 14, 1897) was an American lawyer, writer, U.S. politician, Confederate politician, and military officer. He was known as Mississippi's "Great Commoner".
Known as both the Great Commoner and as the author of disfranchisement provisions in Mississippi’s Constitution, James Zechariah George was born in Monroe County, Georgia, on 26 October 1826. His family moved to Carroll County in 1836. George served in the Mexican War in the First Mississippi Regiment, commanded by Jefferson Davis. On 27 May […]
James Zachariah George (* 20. Oktober 1826 im Monroe County, Georgia; † 14. August 1897 in Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1881 und 1897 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Mississippi im US-Senat.
James Zachariah George, better known as J. Z. George and Mississippi’s “Great Commoner”, was a soldier in the Mexican-American war, a Confederate General, a lawyer, Mississippi Supreme Court justice, and a United States Senator.
1. Feb. 2012 · “When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his State,” wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” While George’s prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased through the decades ...
CHAPTER 1 “A Struggle with Unfriendly Circumstances”: Childhood‚ 1826–1846. (pp. 3-10) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hx7t.4. It was a scene not unlike many others that fall day in 1828, combining elements of fear, sadness, hope, happiness, and reunion. The estate sale of Joseph George had brought in a large crowd.
