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The Mississippi Legislature passed the County Government Reorganization Act of 1988 in response, which transferred responsibilities to a system of centralized road administration. [ 5 ] According to 2023 U.S. Census Data, the average population of Mississippi's 82 counties is 35,850, with Hinds County as the most populous (214,870) and ...
Briscoe served as county tax assessor and collector from 1816 to 1821. [3] In 1828 and 1829, Briscoe represented Claiborne County in the Mississippi House of Representatives . [ 1 ] He was then elected to represent the same county in the Mississippi State Senate in the 1830 and 1831 sessions. [ 1 ]
He is a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 76th District, being first elected in 1999. He is a member of the Democratic Party. [1] He is married to April Holloway, who is the Tax Collector of Copiah County. They reside in their native Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
William Forrest Winter (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2020) was an American attorney and politician who served as 58th governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state tax collector, and in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
Peter Crosby (c. 1844 –1884), was an American sheriff, tax collector, military officer, and businessperson.In 1873 during the Reconstruction-era, Crosby was the first African American to be elected as sheriff in Warren County, Mississippi. [2]
Abram Marshall Scott was born in 1785 in Edgefield County, South Carolina. He migrated to Wilkinson County, Mississippi early in his life, where he would serve as a tax collector. During the War of 1812, Scott served as a lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Regiment of Volunteers. [1]
Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 58,879. [1] Its county seat is Columbus. [2] The county is named for U.S. Congressman William Jones Lowndes. [3] Lowndes County comprises the Columbus, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. [4]
Less than a decade after Mississippi became the country's 20th state, settlers organized this area of 700 sq mi (1,800 km 2) of pine forests and swamps for a new county in 1826. They named it Jones County after John Paul Jones , the early American Naval hero who rose from humble Scottish origin to military success during the American Revolution.