James A. Horne | |
Order: | 11th |
Term Start: | January 1852 |
Term End: | January 1854[1] |
Governor: | Henry S. Foote |
Predecessor: | Joseph Bell[2] |
Successor: | William H. Muse |
Party: | Whig (1860) |
Office: | Secretary of State of Mississippi |
James A. Horne was an American politician.
Horne was born in 1818 or 1819.[3] In 1851, while living in Marion, Mississippi, Horne ran for the office of Secretary of State of Mississippi on the "Union Ticket" alongside Henry S. Foote.[4] [5] He served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854. He later moved to the town of Winchester, Mississippi, where he was a banker by profession.[6] [7] As a Whig, he participated in the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1865.