Misplaced Pages

Jesse Brough

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (February 2024)
Mississippi state legislator (1876–1934)

Jesse Julius Brough (1876–1934) was a piano salesman and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He lived in Pace, Mississippi. He represented Bolivar County. He was blind. In 1927 the area flooded.

Born in Sunflower County, he was the son of William Henry Brough, a Confederate Army veteran who was born in Georgia. Jesse Brough went to school in Shaw, Mississippi and attended the Arkansas Institute for the Blind in Little Rock. He married Pearl Evelyn Harvey. In 1920, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a bill to award him $5,000 after he lost his eyesight after surgery in Vicksburg, attributing the injury to negligence.

He was a justice of the peace.

References

  1. ^ History, Mississippi Department of Archives and (February 11, 1924). "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". Department of Archives and History – via Google Books.
  2. "Article clipped from Clarion-Ledger". Clarion-Ledger. August 1931. p. 2.
  3. Gunn, Jack Winton; Castle, Gladys C. (February 11, 1980). A Pictorial History of Delta State University. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-112-0 – via Google Books.
  4. "Article clipped from Clarion-Ledger". Clarion-Ledger. May 7, 1927. p. 14 – via newspapers.com.
  5. "Laws of the State of Mississippi". Richard C. Langdon. February 11, 1920 – via Google Books.
  6. "The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi". 1923.


Stub icon

This article about a Mississippi politician is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

This article needs additional or more specific categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (February 2024)
Categories: