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The Cleveland, Mississippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bolivar County. It is located in the Mississippi Delta, or Yazoo Basin, of Mississippi. This area was first developed for cotton plantations. Large industrial-scale agricultural operations have reduced the number of farm workers needed, and the population is half of its ...
Lester Spell (born December 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce from 1996 to 2012. [1] [2]
James Andrew Gipson (born December 21, 1976) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the Mississippi Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Gipson was appointed to the position by Governor Phil Bryant, succeeding Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that foreign interests held some 757,000 acres of Mississippi's agricultural land, about 2.5% of the total. Gipson hopes the Republican-led legislature ...
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The agriculture commissioners are organized at the national level by the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture. [ 1 ] The agriculture commissioner is elected in 12 states: Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , North Carolina , North Dakota , South Carolina , Texas , and West Virginia .
Pages in category "Mississippi Commissioners of Agriculture and Commerce" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Agricultural Commissioners; No. Agriculture Commissioner Term in office Party Source 1 Henry Edward Blakeslee: 1906 – 1916 Democratic [4] 2 Peter Parley Garner: 1916 – 1928 Democratic [4] 3 J.C. Holton: 1928 – 1940 Democratic [4] 4 Silas Corley: 1940 – 1968 Democratic [4] 5 Jim Buck Ross: 1968 – 1996 Democratic [4] [5] 6 Lester Spell ...