Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-16
DEATH OF SENATOR GEORGE

Senator James T. George died Satur
day afternoon at Mississippi City. In
May last Senator and Mrs. George cele-
brated their golden wedding. A few
weeks later his wife breathed her last.
The Senator had fatty degeneration OF
the heart, and his death had been an
ticipated.
Senator George has long been con-
spicuous figure in the Senate, having
taken his seat in that body in 1881. He
had two years yet to serve, but long
ago announced that he would not again
be candidate, and the legislature se
lected Representative Money al his sue
cessor. Mr.. Money will take the seat
for which he has been elected March 4,
1899. Senator George was one Of the
unostentatious men of the Senate, but
b was one of its best lawyers and new
or failed to address the Senate when
question involving constitutional law
was up for consideration. AS chair
man during the democratic admin
istration of the Senate, of the COM
mittee of agriculture, he gave much at
tention TO those matters which were
of particular interest to the agricultural
classes, and especially the people of his
own section of the country. He was q
hard worker and lsbored zealously for
his constituents. On the financial ques-
ton be was always an ardent advocate
of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. Senator George was born in
Monroe county, Ca, October 20, 1926.
His father having died in his infancy,
he removed, when eight years of age,
with his mother, to Noxubee county,
Miss, where he resided two years; he
then removed to Carroll county, where
he was educated in the common schools
then existing. He volunteered as q
private in the First Regiment of Mis-
sissippi Volunteers in the Mexican
war, commanded by Colonel Jefferson
Davis, and was at the battle of Monte
rev. On Lis return he studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in Carroll
county. He ives elected reporter of
the high court of errors and appeals in
1854, reelected in 1860, and prepared
and published ten volumes of the re-
ports of the decisions of the
court, and afterwards prepared
and published digest of all
the decisions of the supreme court
and high court of errors and appeals
of that State from the admission of the
State into the Union to and including
the year 1870. He was member OF
the convention in Mississippi in 1861,
which passed the ordnance of secession,
and be voted for and signed that in.
strument; he was a captain in the
Twentieth Regiment of Mississippi
Volunteers in the Confederate States
army, afterward a brigadier-general OF
State troops, and later colonel of the
Fifth Regiment of Mississippi Cavalry
in the Confederate States army; was
chairman of the democratic State exc.
outive committee of Mississippi in 1875
'76; in 1879 was appointed one of the
Judges of the eupreme court of Missis-
sippi and elected chief justice; resigned
his seat on the supreme bench In Feb
ruary, 1881, to take his seat in the Sen
ate on the 4th of March of that year,
and was reelected in 1886, and again
in January, 1892 was member of the
convention of the State
of Mississippi, which was held in 1890
and framed the present constitution OF
tho State.
His remains were taken to Carroll
ton, Miss, for interment.