Thomas A. Barnes was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives during the first General Assembly held in Mississippi in 1817. Barnes had previously been a member of the Legislative Council of the Mississippi Territory representing Clairborne County[1] and was president of the council from 1809 to 1810, then again from 1812 to 1815.[2] In 1815 he resigned due to bad health.[3]

He lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi.[4]

He was involved with negotiations over commerce on the Mississippi River and a proposal for election districting.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Weekly Chronicle". The Natchez Weekly Democrat. July 8, 1809. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1925). History of Mississippi, the Heart of the South. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. pp. 475, 498.
  3. ↑ Carter, Clarence Edwin; Bloom, John Porter (1938). The Territorial Papers of the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 624–625.
  4. ↑ McCain, William David (1967). "The Journal of Mississippi History".
  5. ↑ "Journal of the Senate of the State of New York". 1819.


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