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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", 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.
Learn about the life and achievements of James L. Alcorn, the twenty-eighth governor of Mississippi and a U.S. senator. He founded Alcorn University, established a public school system, and served in 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 […]
US Senator, Mississippi Governor, Civil War Confederate Militia Brigadier General. Born near Golconda, Illinois, he moved to Mississippi in 1844 to practice law. He served in both the Mississippi Legislature and State Senate from 1846 to 1854, and founded the Mississippi levee system in 1858.
James Lusk Alcorn (4 November 1816-10 December 1894) was the Republican Governor of Mississippi from 10 March 1870 to 30 November 1871 (succeeding Adelbert Ames and preceding Ridgely C. Powers) and a US Senator from 1 December 1871 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding Hiram R. Revels and preceding Lucius...
White men supported more moderate candidates, such as James L. Alcorn, who served as governor from 1870 to 1871 before being appointed to the U.S. Senate. Alcorn was born in the North but moved to Mississippi in the 1840s and enslaved nearly a hundred people.
