James A. Horne

James A. Horne
11th Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office
January 1852 – January 1854[1]
GovernorHenry S. Foote
Preceded byJoseph Bell[2]
Succeeded byWilliam H. Muse[2]
Personal details
Born1818 or 1819
Political partyWhig (1860)

James A. Horne was an American politician.

Horne was born in 1818 or 1819.[3] In 1851, while living in Marion, Mississippi, Horne ran for the office of Secretary of State of Mississippi on the "Union Ticket" alongside Henry S. Foote.[4][5] He served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854.[2] He later moved to the town of Winchester, Mississippi, where he was a banker by profession.[6][3][7] As a Whig, he participated in the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1865.[6][3]

  1. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1908). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Brandon Printing. p. 29.
  2. ^ a b c "History of the Mississippi Secretary of State". Mississippi Secretary of State. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Convention, Mississippi Constitutional (1865). Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi, August, 1865. E. M. Yerger, state printer. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-4255-2772-3.
  4. ^ ""Union Ticket" 1851". The Port Gibson Herald, and Correspondent. 1851-07-25. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  5. ^ "Clipped From Natchez Daily Courier". Natchez Daily Courier. 1851-06-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  6. ^ a b "Clipped From Daily Mississippian". Daily Mississippian. 1865-08-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  7. ^ "Extinct Towns and Villages of Wayne County, Mississippi". Genealogy Trails. Retrieved December 26, 2016.