The Mississippi Natural Law Party nominated the Socialist Party presidential ticket of Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander, though they were ultimately barred from appearing on the Mississippi ballot due to a legal controversy surrounding the deadline hour for filing their presidential electors.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois is located on the Mississippi River in Cairo in Alexander County, where it flows out of Illinois and into Kentucky.

Alexander and James Brownlie came to the area in August 1838, having followed the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Wapsipinicon River, then west along its banks.

* Greenville is the home town of the Percy family, including U. S. Senator Le Roy Percy and author William Alexander Percy who took charge of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 recovery effort and wrote Lanterns on the Levee about the Mississippi Delta.

Martin's next fight in 2005 was a second round knockout against Lana Alexander in Lulu, Mississippi.

| Win || 46 – 3 – 2 || Lana Alexander || KO || 2 || April 30, 2005 || Lula, Mississippi, USA ||

Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi to Mary Clark Starks and Alfred Alexander Young, a local physician.

Alexander Gallatin McNutt ( January 3, 1802, Rockbridge County, Virginia – October 22, 1848, DeSoto County, Mississippi ) was a Mississippi politician that served two consecutive 2-year terms ( 1838 – 1842 ) as that state's governor, having previously served as a state senator ( 1835 – 1837 ).

This warbler was first discovered in magnolia trees in the 19th century by famed ornithologist Alexander Wilson while in Mississippi .< ref name = Audubon > 2009.

Alexander O ' Neal ( born November 15, 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi ) is an American R & B singer.

Alexander graduated number one in his high school class in Helena and soon moved to Carrollton, Mississippi to take a position as a teacher.

Walker married Firnist Alexander in 1943 ; they had four children and lived in Mississippi.

Alexander Bielaski ( born August 10, 1811 in Poland ; died November 7, 1861 in Mississippi County, Missouri ) was a civil engineer and Captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Another daughter, Maria Pope, married Thomas George Percy, Sr., and became the ancestor of such notables as Senator LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, the poet William Alexander Percy, Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, and the author Walker Percy.

Separate formation called the I Corps served in the Army of the Ohio / Army of the Cumberland under Alexander M. McCook from September 29, 1862 to November 5, 1862, in the Army of the Mississippi under George W. Morgan from January 4, 1863 to January 12, 1863, and in the Army of the Potomac and Army of Virginia ( see below ).

William Alexander Percy ( May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942 ), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi.

* The William Alexander Percy Library at 341 Main Street, Greenville, Mississippi is named for him.

During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, he appointed his son, William Alexander Percy, to direct the work of thousands of black laborers on the levees near Greenville.

* Clayton, Mississippi

Clayton is located directly on the Mississippi River and is only accessible by a very steep road.

Many people have summer homes in Clayton due to its proximity to the Mississippi River.

Clayton ), they purchased a plantation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, in the Mississippi Delta, formerly a base of cotton plantations and production.

The river passes into geographic Ramsay Township in the municipality of Mississippi Mills on the lake, and leaves over the Clayton Lake Dam at the settlement of Clayton.

In 2005, US 65 was truncated from its original southern terminus at U. S. Route 61 in Natchez, Mississippi to its current terminus at Clayton, Louisiana.

" (" Mississippi State Builders " by Clayton Rand ).

This land, known as the Black Hawk Purchase, constituted a strip fifty miles wide lying along the Mississippi River, stretching from the Missouri border to approximately Fayette and Clayton Counties in Northeastern Iowa.

* Mississippi Burning ( 1988 ) as Clayton Townley

It originates in southwestern Winneshiek County and flows through southern Allamakee County, receiving tributaries from northern Clayton County, before joining the Mississippi near Marquette and Effigy Mounds National Monument.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* 1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.

* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

He was selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

* In Louisiana, John James Audubon Bridge ( Mississippi River ); Audubon Park & Zoo, New Orleans.

* James E. Graves, Jr., judge, Supreme Court of Mississippi

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

* 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

* 1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

* 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

** Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local Klansmen, cops, and a sheriff.

** James Chaney, African-American civil rights activist ( killed in Mississippi ) ( b. 1943 )

* August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.

** The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.

Eventual Governor of Mississippi James K. Vardaman and Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina indulged in racist personal attacks in response to the invitation.

Three other candidates, Isaac Toucey of Connecticut, James Pearce of Maryland, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ( the future president of the Confederate States ) also received votes.

The student movement involved such celebrated figures as John Lewis, a single-minded activist ; James Lawson, the revered " guru " of nonviolent theory and tactics ; Diane Nash, an articulate and intrepid public champion of justice ; Bob Moses, pioneer of voting registration in Mississippi ; and James Bevel, a fiery preacher and charismatic organizer and facilitator.

It was finished in 1848 when Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth presided over its opening ; and it allowed boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

After returning to Mississippi to live, in 1972 Meredith ran for the US Senate against the Democratic senator James Eastland, who had been the incumbent for 29 years.

Statue of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi