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James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish "scalawag", [1] he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race.
Learn about the life and career of James L. Alcorn, who served as Mississippi's governor from 1870 to 1871 and was a leader of the state's Republican Party. He advocated for civil rights, education, and industrial development after the Civil War.
James L. Alcorn was Mississippi’s first elected Republican governor and the namesake of Alcorn County and Alcorn State University. Alcorn had previously served in the state legislatures of Kentucky and Mississippi and had risen to the rank of general in the Confederate military service during the Civil War. Alcorn was born near Golconda, Illinois, on […]
James L. Alcorn. Born in Illinois but raised in Kentucky, James L. Alcorn (1816-1894) became Mississippi's first Reconstruction governor, and perhaps the era's most prominent "scalawag," or Southern white Republican.
James L. Alcorn, Republican and moderate planter who had previously served in the Confederate Army, defeated National Union Republican Party nominee Judge Lewis Dent, the brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant and former Union Army official.
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James L. Alcorn, c. 1870. (Library of Congress) Click image to enlarge. Image 34 of 40 . After Reconstruction, Alcorn remained a Republican. Before his death in 1894, Alcorn emerged briefly from political retirement to participate in the Constitutional Convention of 1890.
congenial topics. Apart from a few leaders like James L. Alcorn in Mississippi and Parson Brownlow in Tennessee, the native Re-publicans have received next to no attention. Thus despite their acknowledged importance in the Radical movement, they remain an unknown quantity. A wider acquaintance can be gotten by several means. That
