Thomas Freeland

Thomas Freeland was a state legislator and delegate to the 1832 Mississippi Constitutional Convention in Mississippi. He served as state senator representing Claiborne County from 1823 to 1829 except in 1827 when Daniel Burnett held the office.[1]

He was a plantation owner who had 70 slaves in 1856 and served as an election inspector. He helped found Oakland College.[2]

  1. ^ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (July 2, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Olsen, Christopher J. (July 2, 2002). Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516097-0 – via Google Books.