Apr 12  Gov. Adelbert Ames
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-04-12

The Honorable Haley Barbour, sixty-third Governor of Mississippi  presents a Natchez History Minute about Adelbert Ames, appointed provisional governor of the state in 1868.  Ames would later serve as a U. S. Senator from Mississippi and win the gubernatorial race in 1873. Ames and his wife lived for a time in Natchez.