# 1916–1920 Mississippi Legislature

The 1916-1920 (or 84th) Mississippi Legislature met in three sessions, from January to April 1916, from September to October 1917, and from January to March 1918. 45 senators and 133 representatives were in each session.

## District apportionment
### Senate

In the 1916 session, the Senate was made of 38 senatorial districts. After the constitutional amendment of 1916, 4 more districts were added. Some districts had more than one representative.

### House

From 1916 to 1920, each county served as a district with representatives. There were some floater representatives that served between two different counties.

## Party breakdown
### Senate

| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Democratic Party | 45 |
| | Other party$^*$ | 0 |
| | Seat Vacant$^{**}$ | 0 |
| Total | Total | 45 |

### House of Representatives

| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Democratic Party | 132 |
| | Other party$^*$ | 1 |
| | Seat Vacant$^{**}$ | 0 |
| Total | Total | 133 |

## Officers
### Senate
#### Presiding Officer

| Position | Name | Party | District |
| President | Lee M. Russell | Democratic Party | n/a |
| President Pro Tempore | Carroll Kendrick | Democratic Party | 37 |

### House of Representatives
#### Presiding Officer

| Position | Name | Party | County |
| Speaker of the House | Martin S. Conner | Democratic Party | Covington |

## Members of the Mississippi State Senate, 1916-1920

| District | Name | Party | Residence |
| 1 | Francis Marion Johnson (1916) | D | Ford |
| 1 | Zachary Taylor Champlin (1918) | D | Biloxi |
| 2 | Columbus W. Walley | D | Waynesboro |
| 3 | John W. White | D | Rose Hill |
| 4 | Henry Clay Yawn (1916) | D | Lumberton |
| 4 | Bee King (1918) | D | Mendenhall |
| 5 | Edgar M. Lane | D | Taylorsville |
| 6 | Charles E. Thompson | D | Garden City |
| 7 | Daniel W. Huff | D | Centerville |
| 8 | E. Harvey McGehee | D | Monticello |
| 9 | William C. Bowman | D | Natchez |
| 10 | Battaille H. Wade | D | Tillman |
| 11 | James M. Coen | D | Mizpah |
| 12 | Joseph A. Baker | D | Jackson |
| 12 | G. Edward Williams (1916) | D | Jackson |
| 12 | George Anderson (1918) | D | Vicksburg |
| 12 | H. K. Murray | D | Vicksburg |
| 13 | Lamar Q. C. Williams | D | Union |
| 14 | Richard E. Thompson | D | Toomsuba |
| 15 | John A. Clark | D | DeKalb |
| 16 | John Q. Poindexter | D | Ravine |
| 17 | Earl S. Richardson | D | Philadelphia |
| 18 | Clarence B. Greaves | D | Flora |
| 19 | Peter Stubblefield | D | Yazoo City |
| 20 | Lorraine C. Dulaney | D | Grace |
| 21 | Homer H. Casteel | D | Pickens |
| 22 | David E. Crawley | D | Kosciusko |
| 23 | William R. Chrismond | D | Ackerman |
| 24 | Scheller A. Miller | D | West Point |
| 25 | William P. Stribling | D | Columbus |
| 26 | Lewis S. Hemphill | D | Valley Hill |
| 27 | William M. Whittington | D | Greenwood |
| 28 | James A. Blount | D | Grenada |
| 29 | Van Buren Boddie (1916) | D | Greenville |
| 29 | Walton Shields (1918) | D | Greenville |
| 29 | John F. Burrow | D | Ruleville |
| 30 | Walter B. Parks | D | Merigold |
| 31 | N. W. Bradford | D | Houston |
| 31 | Marshal T. Adams | D | Pontotoc |
| 32 | James C. Eskridge | D | DeLay |
| 33 | Calvin B. Vance | D | Batesville |
| 34 | Lester C. Franklin | D | Clarksdale |
| 35 | John W. Barbee (1916) | D | Hernando |
| 35 | Joseph N. Brown (1918) | D | Olive Branch |
| 36 | William H. Dyson | D | Hickory Flat |
| 36 | Sam C. Mims, Jr. | D | Holly Springs |
| 36 | Henry Clay Collins | D | Myrtle |
| 37 | Carroll Kendrick | D | Kendrick |
| 38 | Thomas K. Boggan | D | Tupelo |
| 38 | Anthony J. Cox | D | Smithville |
| 39 | S. J. Hathorn (1918) | D | Columbia |
| 40 | Henry Clay Yawn (1918) | D | Lumberton |
| 41 | Francis M. Johnson (1918) | D | Ford |
| 42 | Claude E. Hill (1918) | D | Hattiesburg |

## Members of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1916-1920

| County | Name | Party | Full terms of office | Residence |
| Adams | Walter G. Green | D | 1916–1920 | Natchez |
| Adams | L. T. Kennedy | D | 1918–1932 | Natchez |
| Adams | Albert B. Sojourner | D | 1916–1924 | Natchez |
| Alcorn | Robert B. Cotton (1916) | D | 1911–1917 | Corinth |
| Alcorn | J. R. Hill (1918) | D | 1917-1920 | |
| Alcorn | John B. Splann | D | 1916–1920 | Kendrick |
| Amite | John F. Cassels | D | 1916–1920 | Gloster |
| Amite | Drury Wall | D | 1916–1920 | Peoria |
| Attala | James C. Wasson | D | 1916–1920 | Ethel |
| Attala | Icey W. Day | D | 1916–1920; 1932–1940; 1944–1952 | Ethel |
| Benton | Roderick McGill | D | 1916–1920 | Falkner |
| Bolivar | Walter Sillers, Jr. | D | 1916–1966 | Rosedale |
| Bolivar | Stanley F. Gaines | D | 1916–1920 | Boyle |
| Calhoun | John B. Going | D | 1908–1920, 1940-1948 | Calhoun City |
| Calhoun | Dennis Murphree | D | 1911–1924 | Pittsboro |
| Carroll | George I. Redditt | D | 1916–1920 | McCarley |
| Carroll | Lafayette J. Lott | D | 1916–1920 | Grenada |
| Chickasaw | Irvin Abernathy | D | 1916-1925 | Okolona |
| Chickasaw | Eugene Verrell | D | 1916-1920 | Houston |
| Choctaw | Carlton A. Lindsey | D | 1908-1920; 1928-1932 | Eupora |
| Claiborne | Talbert Luster | D | 1912-1920 | Utica |
| Clarke | Howard L. Miller | D | 1916-1920 | Quitman |
| Clay | Barney S. Semmelman (1916) | D | 1916-1917 | West Point |
| Clay | J. A. McArthur (1918) | | 1917-1920 | West Point |
| Clay | Frank B. Stephens | D | 1916-1920 | West Point |
| Coahoma | Oscar G. Johnston | D | 1908-1920 | Clarksdale |
| Coahoma | Robert L. Ralston | D | 1916-1920 | Coahoma |
| Copiah | John A. Smylie | D | 1916-1920 | Crystal Springs |
| Copiah | Benjamin King | D | 1916-1920 | Hazlehurst |
| Copiah | George W. Russell | D | 1916-1924 | Hazlehurst |
| Covington | Martin Sennet Conner | D | 1916-1924 | Seminary |
| DeSoto | Dalton F. Warren | D | 1916-1920 | Olive Branch |
| DeSoto | John C. Lauderdale | D | 1916-1920 | Bright |
| Forrest | Elisha A. Anderson | D | 1912- | Hattiesburg |
| Franklin | Charles A. Everett | D | 1916-1920 | Monroe |
| George | Luther W. Maples | D | 1916-1920 | Clarence |
| Greene | William I. McLain | D | 1916-1920 | Richton |
| Grenada | William Aylmer Winter | D | 1916-1924 | Grenada |
| Hancock | Robert L. Genin | D | 1912-1920; 1926-1928 | Bay St. Louis |
| Harrison | Ernest E. O'Neal | D | 1916- | Saucier |
| Hinds | Verell P. Ferguson | D | 1912-1923 | Learned |
| Hinds | Edward H. Green | D | 1916- | Jackson |
| Hinds | John Sivley Rhodes | D | 1916- | Jackson |
| Holmes | Thomas G. Stephenson | D | 1912- | Lexington |
| Holmes | Leland N. White | D | 1916- | Lexington |
| Holmes | Henry H. Johnson | D | 1916- | Lexington |
| Issaquena | Robert E. Foster | D | 1912-1931 | Shiloh |
| Itawamba | William C. Gray | D | 1916- | Fulton |
| Jackson | William R. David | D | 1916- | Carterville |
| Jasper | Henry Lloyd Finch | D | 1916-1924 | Heidelberg |
| Jefferson | William M. Darden | D | 1912- | McNair |
| Jefferson Davis | Oliver C. Luper | D | 1916- | Prentiss |
| Jones | James H. Bush | D | 1912- | Laurel |
| Kemper | Joseph J. Daniel | D | 1916- | DeKalb |
| Kemper | Edmund J. Irby | D | 1916- | Scooba |
| Lafayette | David F. Hoyle | D | 1916- | Paris |
| Lafayette | Henry L. Davis | D | 1916-1920; 1924-1928 | Tula |
| Lamar | John A. Yeager | D | 1916-1932 | Lumberton |
| Lauderdale | Thomas L. Bailey | D | 1916-1940 | Meridian |
| Lauderdale | Willis M. Taylor | D | 1916-1920 | Meridian |
| Lauderdale | Jesse D. Bounds | D | 1916-1920; 1928-1932 | Bailey |
| Lawrence | Charles E. Gibson | D | 1916- | Monticello |
| Leake | Martin M. Miller | D | 1916-1920 | Edinburg |
| Lee | Frank L. Kincannon | D | 1916- | Tupelo |
| Lee | James S. Howerton | D | 1912- | Baldwyn |
| Leflore | William S. Barry | D | 1888-1892; 1916-1920 | Greenwood |
| Lincoln | John F. Cole | D | 1916- | Bogue Chitto |
| Lowndes | John F. Frierson | D | 1916- | Columbus |
| Lowndes | Dabney L. Ervin | D | 1912- | Columbus |
| Lowndes | Joseph R. Thomas | D | 1916- | Columbus |
| Madison | John B. Dendy | D | 1912- | Pickens |
| Madison | Tip Ray | D | 1916- | Canton |
| Marion | Ethelbert I. Singley | I | 1916-1920 | Columbia |
| Marshall | William W. Stamps | D | 1916- | Colliersville, TN |
| Marshall | Wilfred I. Spears | D | 1916- | Byhalia |
| Marshall | John A. Hardin | D | 1916- | Potts Camp |
| Monroe | William H. Kolb | D | 1916- | Aberdeen |
| Monroe | William L. C. Bailey | D | 1916- | Aberdeen |
| Monroe | Arna A. Tubb | D | 1916- | Amory |
| Montgomery | Elijah M. Thompson | D | 1912- | Winona |
| Neshoba | Thomas B. Williams | D | 1916- | Philadelphia |
| Newton | Nathan M. Everett | D | 1912- | Hickory |
| Newton | Bennie W. Dearing | D | 1916- | Newton |
| Noxubee | Thomas W. Brame | D | 1912- | Macon |
| Noxubee | Clinton E. Dorroh | D | 1916- | Macon |
| Noxubee | Prince DeWitt Hubbard | D | 1916- | Shuqualak |
| Oktibbeha | Joseph S. Rice | D | 1916- | Starkville |
| Oktibbeha | John D. Greene Jr. | D | 1916- | Sturgis |
| Panola | Albert Sidney Kyle | D | 1900-1912; 1916- | Batesville |
| Panola | Felix H. Nelson | D | 1916- | Pope |
| Panola | Robert T. Keys | D | 1916- | Sardis |
| Pearl River | Jess E. Stockstill | D | 1916- | Picayune |
| Perry | Gabriel D. Draughn | D | 1916- | New Augusta |
| Pike | Joseph E. Norwood | D | 1916- | Magnolia |
| Pike | Fenelon D. Hewitt | D | 1916- | McComb |
| Pontotoc | William T. Stegall | D | 1896- | Pontotoc |
| Pontotoc | Frank Roberson | D | 1916-1917 | Pontotoc |
| Pontotoc | Thomas J. Wingo | D | 1917- | Toccopola |
| Prentiss | Robert E. L. Sutherland | D | 1916- | Wheeler |
| Prentiss | Bartho L. Breedlove | D | 1916- | Booneville |
| Quitman | Ula B. Ross | D | 1916-1920 | Lambert |
| Rankin | William E. McIntyre | D | 1916- | Brandon |
| Rankin | Richard H. Watts | D | 1916- | Pelahatchie |
| Scott | William L. Weems | D | | Sun |
| Sharkey | Samuel B. Alexander | D | 1916- | Rolling Fork |
| Simpson | William F. Stroud | D | 1916- | Pinola |
| Smith | Henry C. Thornton | D | 1916- | Taylorville |
| Stone | A. Batson | D | 1916-1920 | |
| Sunflower | Arthur B. Clark | D | 1916-1924 | Indianola |
| Tallahatchie | Rowe Hays | D | 1916- | Sumner |
| Tate | William J. East | D | 1896-1900; 1904-1908; 1916–1920 | Senatobia |
| Tate | Servetus L. Crockett | D | 1916- | Tyro |
| Tippah | William R. Wildman | D | 1916- | Ripley |
| Tishomingo | James R. Mann | D | 1916- | Iuka |
| Tunica | James M. Anderson | D | 1916- | Tunica |
| Union | John N. Magill | D | 1916- | Bethany |
| Union | Sam J. Purvis | D | 1916- | Blue Springs |
| Walthall | William W. Pope | D | | Tylertown |
| Warren | Thomas R. Foster | D | 1902-1912; 1916- | Vicksburg |
| Warren | George R. Hawkins | D | 1908-1912; 1916- | Vicksburg |
| Warren | Robert L. C. Barret | D | 1916- | Vicksburg |
| Washington | Alfred H. Stone | D | 1916-1924 | Dunleith Plantation |
| Washington | Alexander G. Paxton | D | 1916- | Greenville |
| Washington | Walter S. Knotts | D | 1916- | Belzoni |
| Wayne | Grover C. Clark | D | 1916- | Heidelberg |
| Webster | Solon S. Gore | D | 1916- | Embry |
| Wilkinson | James R. Hutcheson | D | 1916- | Centerville |
| Wilkinson | C. T. Netterville, Jr. | D | 1916- | Wilkinson |
| Winston | Frank McGehee Glenn | D | 1916- | Noxapater |
| Yalobusha | George E. Denley | D | 1916- | Coffeeville |
| Yalobusha | William A. Nolen | D | 1916- | Water Valley |
| Yazoo | Benjamin F. Roberts | D | 1916- | Satartia |
| Yazoo | Patrick C. Meagher | D | 1916-1920 | Yazoo City |
| Yazoo | Excell Coody | D | 1916- | Phoenix |
| Franklin & Lincoln | Fred A. Wright | D | 1916- | Lucien |
| Tippah & Benton | Frederick B. Smith | D | 1916- | Ripley |
| Claiborne & Jefferson | Samuel R. Young | D | 1916- | Pattison |
| Clarke & Jasper | William L. West | D | 1916- | Vossburg |
| Grenada & Montgomery | William H. Dyre | D | 1916-1920 | Winona |
| Leake & Winston | John C. Holton | D | 1916- | Louisville |
| Harrison & Jackson | John M. Hairston | D | 1916- | Gulfport |
| Lee & Itawamba | Robert S. Sheffield | D | 1916- | Dorsey |
| Yazoo & Hinds | Dr. Virgil M. Perry | D | 1916- | Satartia |
| Yazoo & Hinds | R. S. Bowman | D | 1916- | Benton |