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March 5, 1986 [1] The Mississippi State Capitol or the “New Capitol,” has been the seat of the state’s government since it succeeded the old statehouse in 1903. Located in Jackson, it was designated as a Mississippi Landmark in 1986, a National Historic Landmark in 2016 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
From 1839 until 1903, as Mississippi's statehouse, the old capitol was the site of several historical legislative events: [ 5] Passage of the Married Women's Property Act, the first law in any state to allow married women to independently own property, in 1839. [ 7] Passage of an ordinance of secession in 1861. Constitutional Convention of 1865.
The Mississippi State Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Senate is composed of 52 senators representing an equal number of constituent ...
Mississippi State Capitol dome, exterior, with state flag in focus, in Jackson, photographed Thursday, July 13, 2023. Over in the in the Mississippi House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Johnson ...
Before 1861, Mississippi lacked a flag. When the State Convention at the Capitol in Jackson declared its secession from the United States ("the Union") on January 9, 1861, [19] near the start of the American Civil War, spectators in the balcony handed a Bonnie Blue flag down to the state convention delegates on the convention floor, [20] and one was raised over the state capitol building in ...
On Wednesday in the Mississippi State Capitol, House Education Chairman Rep. Rob Roberson asked lawmakers to pass an amendment to Senate Bill 2693, which originally sought to provide a process for ...
The bicameral Legislature is composed of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi State Senate, with 52 members. Both representatives and senators serve four-year terms without term limits. The Legislature convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson.
Mississippi House Speaker Jason White, R-West, speaks to the press on the second to last day at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson on Friday, May 3, 2024. When it comes to the 2025 ...