Aug 20  A Governor for a New State
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 20/08/2016

Eugenia Cates presents a Natchez History Minute about David Holmes, the first governor for the newly created State of Mississippi. Holmes had been the Mississippi Territorial Governor since 1809 and would later serve as a U. S. Senator for Mississippi. He was elected governor for the second time in 1825 but resigned in July, 1826 due to ill health. He died on this day, August 20 in 1832.