Lorraine C. Dulaney Explained

Birth Date:25 December 1863
Termend:January 1920
Termend3:January 1896
Termstart3:January 1892
Termend2:January 1908
Termstart2:January 1904
Termend1:January 1904
Termstart1:January 1900
Termstart:January 1916
Birth Place:Madison County, Mississippi
District2:Issaquena County
State House2:Mississippi
District:20th
State Senate:Mississippi State
Death Place:Grace, Mississippi
Party:Democratic

Lorraine Catchings Dulaney (December 25, 1863 - November 30, 1945) was an American planter and Democratic politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi State Legislature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biography

Lorraine Catchings Dulaney was born on December 25, 1863, in Madison County, Mississippi.[1] [2] He was the son of William Johnson Dulaney and his wife, Lorraine (Catchings) Dulaney. He was of French descent. Dulaney attended the public schools of Madison County, and graduated from Poughkeepsie Business College in New York in 1882. Dulaney was a planter, merchant, and railroad and levee contractor. A Democrat, he represented Issaquena County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1892 to 1896.[3] From 1900 to 1904, he represented the 20th District in the Mississippi State Senate. In November 1903, he was elected to another term in the House and served from 1904 to 1908. He served again in the Senate in the same district from 1916 to 1920.

Dulaney died on November 30, 1945, at his home in Grace, Mississippi.[4]

Bribery charges

In 1910, Dulaney was charged for attempting to bribe state senator Theodore G. Bilbo to vote for LeRoy Percy for the U. S. Senate.[5] Dulaney was acquitted.

References

  1. Book: Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. 1904. 539. en.
  2. Book: Mississippi. Department Reports. 1900. 85,194,779–781. en.
  3. Book: Rowland, Dunbar. The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. 1917. Department of Archives and History. 226. en.
  4. News: 1945-11-30. L. C. Dulaney Obituary. 7. Sun Herald. 2022-02-17.
  5. Book: Wise, Benjamin E.. William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. 2012-03-12. Univ of North Carolina Press. 978-0-8078-6995-6. 105–106. en.