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The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Louisville, Mississippi. Pages in category "People from Louisville, Mississippi" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Louisville (pronounced LEW-iss-vill) [4] is a city in Winston County, Mississippi. The population was 6,631 at the 2010 census. The population was 6,631 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Winston County.
Anne Northup, U.S. Representative from Louisville, 1997–2007; member of the Consumer Products Safety Commission; sister of Mary T. Meagher; Zach Payne, member of the Indiana House of Representatives; Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr., Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, from 1981 until his death in 1988; born in Louisville in ...
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 allowed the Mississippi Choctaws to become re-organized on April 20, ... Gary Batton, 2014–Present; Mississippi Choctaws
Batton is an English and French (IPA:) surname [1] [2] [3] with several proposed etymologies. In English it may be a diminutive form of Batt – itself derived from the Middle English Batte , a pet form of Bartholomew – [ 4 ] and in French a variant of Baston . [ 3 ]
John David Batton (February 13, 1911 – February 10, 1981), [1] was from 1952 to 1964 the sheriff of his native Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was defeated after three terms by O. H. Haynes Jr. , a fellow Democrat and the son of the sheriff, O. H. Haynes Sr., whom Batton had himself unseated twelve years earlier.
Winston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. In the 2020 census, the population was 17,714. [1] Its county seat is Louisville. [2] The county is named for Louis Winston (1784–1824), a colonel in the militia, a prominent lawyer, and a judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. [3]
The area was sparsely populated prior to the Civil War. In the same location as where the town sits today, Covington County resident and Presbyterian pastor A. R. Graves opened Zion Seminary, a boarding school for men and women, in 1845. The seminary offered courses in law, medicine, and religious studies.