State Senate: | Mississippi |
District: | 1st |
Termstart: | January 1900 |
Termend: | January 1904 |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1844 |
Birth Place: | Mississippi City, Mississippi, U.S. |
Death Place: | Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
State House1: | Mississippi |
District1: | Harrison County |
Termstart1: | January 1890 |
Termend1: | January 1892 |
Wesley G. Evans Jr.[1] (January 28, 1844 – September 3, 1921) was a Mississippi politician and Democratic state legislator from Harrison County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was born on January 28, 1844, in Mississippi City, Mississippi.[2] [3] He was the son of W. G. Evans Sr. and his wife, Lucetta (Woodruff) Evans.[4] He fought in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War.[5] He was a lawyer by profession. He represented Harrison County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1890 to 1892.[6] He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1900 to 1904, representing the 1st District, consisting of Mississippi's Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties.[7] He died on September 3, 1921, in his residence in Gulfport, Mississippi.[8]
Evans was married to Susan Carter. They had a son named Thomas Marshall Evans, who was born in 1862 and later became a lawyer in Gulfport.