James Brownlow Yellowley
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| Born | October 17, 1848 Greenville, North Carolina |
| Died | 1914 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina |
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James Brownlow Yellowley (October 17, 1848 – 1914) was an American lawyer, farmer, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was from Greenville, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1866-1868. He lived in Madison, Mississippi.[1]
He was the son of James Burroughs Yellowley and the grandson of Captain Edward Yellowley. His father James Burroughs Yellowley founded Ridgeland, Mississippi.[2]
In 1875, he wrote about a meeting of Republicans that reached an agreement with Democrats in Madison County for a compromise ticket for the coming election.[3] He was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1881[4] and for a congressional seat in 1884.[5] He was a spokesman for a grange.[6]
He chaired a committee investigating the conduct of T. W. Cardozo.[7] He was a trustee at Tougaloo College.[8]
He attended the 1908 Republican National Convention.[9]
His extended family has been written about.[10]
He grew grapes, strawberries, and asparagus. He had a son Edward C. Yellowley (1873-1962) who became an enforcement agent for the Internal Revenue Service. He was named after Edward Clements Yellowley who was J. B. Yellowley's uncle.[2]
See also
- 1898 United States House of Representatives elections
References
- ↑ "Alumni History of the University of North Carolina". 1924.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Discovering Greenville's Horticultural Past". 7 April 2022.
- ↑ "Yellowly, J. B. · Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi · Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi".
- ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form".
- ↑ "The Chi Phi Fraternity, Centennial Memorial Volume: Commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the Princeton Society of Chi Phi to which the Fraternity Owes Its Existence". 1924.
- ↑ Nordin, Dennis Sven (April 11, 1974). Rich Harvest. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-61703-476-3 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi: Sitting as a Court of Impeachment, in the Trials of Adelbert Ames, Governor, Alexander K. Davis, Lieutenant Governor, Thomas W. Cardozo, Superintendent of Public Education". 1876.
- ↑ Mississippi (1877). "Department Reports".
- ↑ "Official Report of the Proceedings of the ... Republican National Convention Held in". 1908.
- ↑ Curd, Dan S. (28 September 2020). "The Curd Family in America Eight Generations".
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