John A. Grimball
John A. Grimball | |
|---|---|
| 2nd Secretary of State of Mississippi | |
| In office January 1821 – January 1833 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Williams |
| Succeeded by | David Dickson |
| Personal details | |
| Died | (1867年09月25日)September 25, 1867 Hinds County, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Whig |
Colonel John Audebert Grimball (died September 25, 1867) was an American politician. He was the 2nd Secretary of State of Mississippi, serving from 1821 to 1833.
Biography
[edit ]John Audebert Grimball was one of six children of Thomas Grimball and Ann (Audebert) Grimball.[1] In 1821, Grimball was elected by the Mississippi Legislature to succeed Daniel Williams as the Secretary of State of Mississippi after Williams's resignation.[2] [3] Grimball was re-elected on January 7, 1824; January 11, 1826; January 12, 1828; January 13, 1830; and December 1, 1831.[3] In the 1837 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Grimball ran for the office of the Governor of Mississippi as a Whig, but lost to Democrat Alexander McNutt.[4] [5] [6] Grimball died on September 25, 1867, in Hinds County, Mississippi.[7]
Personal life
[edit ]Grimball married Eugenia Bray.[1] Their daughter, Laura, married Taliaferro J. Lenoir in 1847.[1] [8]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c Stafford, George Mason Graham (1943). General Leroy Augustus Stafford: His Forebears and Descendants. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 398.
- ^ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1821). Journal. p. 29.
- ^ a b Mississippi (1898). Department Reports. p. 92.
- ^ Capace, Nancy (2001年01月01日). Encyclopedia of Mississippi. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-403-09603-9.
- ^ Hagstette, Todd (2017年08月10日). Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-773-2.
- ^ Busbee, Westley F. Jr. (2015年01月20日). Mississippi: A History. John Wiley & Sons. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-118-75590-7.
- ^ "Col. John A. Grimball". Clarion-Ledger. 1867年10月06日. p. 2. Retrieved 2022年09月01日.
- ^ "Taliaferro J. Lenoir and Laura A. Grimball marriage announcement". The Weekly Mississippian. 1847年12月10日. p. 3. Retrieved 2022年09月01日.