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James Zachariah George (October 20, 1826 – August 14, 1897) was an American lawyer, writer, U.S. politician, Confederate politician, and military officer. He was known as Mississippi 's "Great Commoner".
Known as both the Great Commoner and as the author of disfranchisement provisions in Mississippi’s Constitution, James Zechariah George was born in Monroe County, Georgia, on 26 October 1826. His family moved to Carroll County in 1836. George served in the Mexican War in the First Mississippi Regiment, commanded by Jefferson Davis. On 27 May […]
James Zachariah George, better known as J. Z. George and Mississippi’s “Great Commoner”, was a soldier in the Mexican-American war, a Confederate General, a lawyer, Mississippi Supreme Court justice, and a United States Senator.
Jun 11, 2018 · The American politican and jurist James Zachariah George (1826-1897) was one of Mississippi's strongest white-supremacy statesmen in the Reconstruction era. James George was born on Oct. 20, 1826, in Monroe County, Ga.
James Zachariah George was an American lawyer, writer, U.S. politician, Confederate politician, and military officer. He was known as Mississippi's "Great Commo...
James Zachariah George, better known as J. Z. George and Mississippi’s “Great Commoner”, was a soldier in the Mexican-American war, a Confederate General, a lawyer, Mississippi Supreme Court justice, and a United States Senator.
“When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his State he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George.” So wrote Mississippi’s premier historian, Dunbar Rowland, in 1901.
