State: | Mississippi Territory |
District Number: | AL |
Member Type: | Delegate |
Representative: | N/A |
Obsolete: | yes |
Created: | 1801 |
Custom Created: | as a non-voting delegate was granted by Congress |
Eliminated: | 1817 |
Statehood Eliminated: | yes |
Years: | 1801–1817 |
The area of Mississippi Territory was increased in 1804 and again in 1812.
On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was admitted into the Union as a state and Alabama Territory to the east was spun off.
On April 7, 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created. A non-voting delegate was elected at-large beginning March 4, 1801.
Delegate | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history | |||
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align=left | Narsworthy Hunter | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | December 7, 1801 – March 11, 1802 | Elected in 1801. Died. | ||
Vacant | nowrap | March 11, 1802 – December 6, 1802 | |||||
align=left | Thomas M. Green Jr. | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | December 6, 1802 – March 3, 1803 | Elected to finish Hunter's term. Retired. | ||
align=left | William Lattimore | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807 | Elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1805.[1] Retired. | ||
align=left | George Poindexter | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1813 | Elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808.[2] Re-elected in 1811.[3] Retired. | ||
align=left | William Lattimore | Democratic-Republican | nowrap | March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817 | Elected in 1813.[4] Re-elected in 1815.[5] Retired. | ||
Vacant | nowrap | March 4, 1817 – December 10, 1817 | Cowles Mead was elected in 1817 but not seated. The district became inactive as Mississippi achieved statehood. |