The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-12-25
SENATOR McLAUR|N
DIES SUDDENLY.
UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI
A VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE.
Expires While Seated in His Home At Brandon.
He Recently Suffered Frsn Illness, But Had
Reeovered-He Had Just Remarked That He
Was Feeling WeIl-No Anaase.ents Have
Yet Been Made for the Funeral.

United States Senator Anselm Joseph
McLaurin died at his home in Brandon
Wednesday evening at o'clock. He
had Just returned from his Office, where
he had been most of the day, and was
sitting in the family circle, talking over
the events of the day, when suddenly he
leaned back in his chair and called for
help .and expired within three minutes.
Physicians were hastily summoned but
dissolution had taken place before they
arrived.
Senator McLaurin had been feeling
well all day, and remarked to friends
just before leaving his Office that he was
feeling better than he had felt for some
time, and thought that he was on the
road to recovery from his recent spell Of
illness.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been made.
Death was due to an attack of heart
failure, and came without the slightest
warning.
| SENATOR MCLAURN's CAREER.
Anselm Joseph McLaurin came OF
sturdy, patriotic ancestry, and the story
of his own life is one of steady achieve
meut, as the result of thrift, energy and
perseverance. He was born in Brandon,
Miss, March 26, t84S, the son of LAUGH
lin McLaurin and Ellen Caroline Tullus.
His paternal ancestors came to America
from Scotland, and his maternal ances-
ltors from Wales. John London, his ma
sernal grest-grandfather, was soldier
of the revolution. and fought at Bunker
Hill and Lexington. When A. ]. Nc
l-avrin was an infant his parents moved
TO Smith County where they conducted
la farm, ann the boy was educated in the
lnelgnborhood schools, working on the
farm when not occupied with his studies,
When he was Is years old, in August,
1854, he enlisGed in the Confederate
Army Deconiag private III the Third
mississippi Cavalry, and serving until
the end OF the war.
Returning home, he entered Summer
lville Institute, and continued through
the junior year, studying law at home at
might, and on July 3, 1868, he was Ii
licensed to practice his profession by
Judge John Watts. He hung out his
Ishlngle at Raleigh, Miss, and practiced
there for eight years, during four years
Iof which he was district attorney, and
treturned to his native town, Brandon,
lin 1876.
In 1879 he was elected a member Of
the Legislature from Rankin county. In
1888 he was chosen elector from the
State at large, and voted for Grover
lCleveland, the nominee of the Demo-
cratic Party. He was a member from
Rankin County of the Constitutional
Convention of 1890, which devised the
first successful method OF eliminating
the negro vote from the electorate. On
the resignation of United States Senator
E. c., Walthall he was elected Feb. Z,
| 1894, to fill out the unexpired term. In
November, 1895, he was elected Gov
ernor of Mississippi, filling that high
office with credit to himself and honor
to his state for four years, until Jan. 16,
| 1900. That same month he was re-elect-
ed to the United States Senate, ,..and took
his seat March 4, 1901, and was re-elect-
ed for the succeeding term, which be-
gan in 1907, and expires in 1913.
He has always taken an active part in
party politics, and served as county
chairman and congressional district
chairman for many years. He urged in
the constitutional convention OF 1890 the
disfranchisement of heaters, and
took "a leading part in the movement
which resulted in the payment OF pen
sion to Confederate soldiers. He be-
heYed in industrial education, and urged
as governor that a texplle school be es-
tabiished in connection with the Agll-
!cultural aud Mechanical College.
lie was IA steward Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, south, Royal Arch
Mason, and a knight OF Honor.
In 1870 he was married to Miss Laura
Elyira Victoria Ranch, OF Trenton, Miss,
and ten children were born to them, OF
whom seven survive Mrs. stella Berry.
Mrs. Delta AtcLaurin, Mrs. Daisy ste
vens, Misses irene Catherine, Jean
Wallace and Laura Rancil 2IcLaGFi'l,
aud Ansalln Joseph, JI.
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porous at this time than they have been
lin years, the oFdeg numbering more
than t0,Qo0 il. the Ssase. Nearly every