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The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
Thomas Hickman Williams (1801–1851), U.S. senator, UM secretary-treasurer, "father of the University of Mississippi" Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (1855–1915), UM professor, U.S. representative Religious figures
In response, Democrats argued that new insights deemed the issuance of Union Bank bonds unconstitutional. The anti-bond Democrats rallied behind Brown, who emerged victorious in the election by defeating the Whig candidate, George R. Clayton, and former U.S. Senator Thomas Hickman Williams, an independent bond-paying Democrat. [2] [3]
Thomas Hickman Williams (January 20, 1801 – May 3, 1851) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born in Williamson County, Tennessee , he attended the common schools, moved to Mississippi and settled in Pontotoc County , and engaged in planting.
The case title—naming an object, "Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola", as defendant—is an instance of jurisdiction in rem (jurisdiction against a thing). Rather than directly naming the Coca-Cola Company as defendant, the food itself was the subject of the case, with the company only indirectly subject.
July – Eli Whitney demonstrates before Congress the advantages of the system of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms. August 1 – Action of 1 August 1801 (First Barbary War): United States Navy schooner USS Enterprise (1799) captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca Tripoli off the north African coast in a single-ship ...
Joseph A. Biedenharn (1866–1952), confectioner, first Coca-Cola bottler [32] George W. Bryan (1944–2023), Sara Lee executive ; John H. Bryan (1936–2018), Sara Lee executive ; Bill Bynum, credit union founder and philanthropist [33] Cynthia Cooper, WorldCom vice president, whistleblower