Hampton Jarnagin Explained

Hampton L. Jarnagin (- 1887) was a lawyer, judge, and state legislator in Mississippi.

He was born in 1811 or 1812 in Eastern Tennessee.^[1] Spencer Jarnagin was his brother.^[2]

He 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]

He 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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Image 283 of Journal of the proceedings and debates in the Constitutional Convention of the state of Mississippi, August 1865. . 2024-08-21 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
2. Book: Southern Historical Association . 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 . 836 . 1702523.
3. Book: Kempe, Helen Kerr . The Pelican guide to old homes of Mississippi . 1977 . Pelican Pub. Co . Pelican Publishing Company . 0-88289-134-0 . Gretna, La. . 5–6 . 2799036.
4. Book: Mathisen, Erik . The loyal republic : traitors, slaves, and the remaking of citizenship in Civil War America . 2018 . Project MUSE . 978-1-4696-3634-4 . Chapel Hill . 138 . 1028905649.
5. Book: Ranney, Joseph A. . A legal history of Mississippi : race, class, and the struggle for opportunity . 2019 . 978-1-4968-2259-8 . Jackson . 1076374596.
6. Book: United States. Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States . Report of and testimony . 1872 . Washington . 513–544 . 29619457.
7. Book: United States . United States Congressional Serial Set . U.S. Government Printing Office . 1875 . Washington . 148 . 191710879.
8. Web site: Senate . Mississippi Legislature . 1880 . 1880 Senate . 2022-09-10 . Mississippi House Journal.
9. Book: Rowland, Dunbar . The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi . 1917 . Department of Archives and History . 198 . en.
10. Book: Memoirs of Georgia: Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People . 1895 . Southern Historical Association . 835–836 . en.