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Editor Macon Beacon: I write to thank you for your flatter ing editorial, announcing my election to the United States Senate from this State, in your issue of the 10th snat. It was very kind of you indeed, and is duly appreciated by me. There is a little inaccuracy contained in it, to the effect that my family moved to Winston coun ty before the war. Really, my father’s family moved to Oktibbeha county in January, 1863. My brother, W. G. White, of West Point, Miss., and I did not enlist in the Confederate army from Winston county. He enlisted in a Noxubee county company in the early winter of 1862. The company was first commanded by Captain Cravens, of Pickens county, Alabama, I, at a later date, enlisted in the same company. It was not Company G, but Company F, of the First Mississippi Cavalry. It was in the same squadron with Com pany G. Company G was a Noxubee county company, being first command ed by Captain W. H. Foote and at the close of the war by Lieutenant Dupree. Company G, the one to which my brother and I belonged, oh hee role a number of Pickeps men. After the war my brother and I settled at Weat Point, Miss. I was elected to the legislature from that county in the Revolution of 1875. It was then called Colfax county. I introduced the bill by which the name was changed to Clay. While in the legislature, in 1876, I con ducted the impeachment proceedings against A. K. Davia, the Lieutenant Governor of the State, who was con victed and removed from office. Im mediately following his conviction and removal, Governor Ames resigned. This resulted in the inauguration of John M. Stone as Governor. I was again elected to the legislature from the same county in 1882. Moved to Birmingham in October, 1836. Thanking you again for your kind editorial, I remain. Yours very truly. Frank 8. Warre, m, Ala., April 20th, 1914. Mother of Senators. If Yupkie may be known as the ‘Mother of Presidents,”’ thinks the Mobile Register, then Mississippi should dawn in history as the ‘Mother of Sena tors,’’ for with the advent of Senator White of Alabama there will be seven Mississippians sit ting as senators. John Sharp Williams and James K. Varda man are the senatorial incum bents of Mississippi: Chamber lain of Oregon is a Mississippian, as are Gore of Oklahoma, New lands of Nevada and Bailey of Texas. Of course, Bailey is not now a senator, he bi: the senate so recently he may be counted. Frank S. White of Alabama is a native of Mississip i, in fact, he remained in that tate enough to serve a term in the State Legislature. However, Mississippi is not the birthplace of all these gentle men. Vardaman was born in Jackson county, Texas, and Wil liams was born in Memphis, Montgomery Advertiser.
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Macon Beacon
Macon, Mississippi, US
Fri, Apr 24, 1914
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