He was president of the University of Mississippi at Oxford from 1874 – 1886, and he lobbied for and helped organize the creation of the Chattanooga-Chickamauga National Battlefield Park by Congress in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

He returned to Jackson in 1874 and served on the Court of Arbitration for West Tennessee on two occasions.

According to the records of the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Red Jackson sent a letter to his father-in-law, General Harding, announcing the birth of a son he named ' William Harding Jackson ' ( I ) on September 15, 1874.

Edward Hull " Boss " Crump ( October 2, 1874 – October 16, 1954 ) was an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee.

After his study of law, Taylor was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee.

He was appointed by governor of Tennessee John C. Brown to the Court of Arbitration in 1874.

He was later admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874, and married Martha Overton in 1876.

* 1874 — Customs House, Knoxville, Tennessee

The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named for Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general.

Bent County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 6, 1874, when Greenwood County, created only four years earlier, was dissolved and divided between Bent and Elbert counties.

The town was given a charter by the state legislature on March 14, 1874.

He was a representative and a senator in the state legislature between 1866 and 1874.

Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College was established by an act of the legislature, approved April 7, 1874, to carry out the United States Morrill Act of 1862, granting lands for this purpose.

In February 1874, Bruce was elected by the state legislature to the Senate as a Republican.

* Daniel John O ' Donoghue was the first labour candidate election to a Canadian legislature when in 1874 he was elected to the Ontario legislature as the candidate of the Ottawa Trades Council.

The first $ 1000 to erect buildings was finally allocated by the territorial legislature in 1874.

In April 1874, Davis won a by-election to the provincial legislature for the riding of Winnipeg & St. Johns ( replacing Smith, who had resigned ).

The ministry which included Clarke was defeated in the legislature in July 1874, when John Norquay's bill for electoral redistribution was defeated.

Clarke was, however, acknowledged as the government leader in the legislature from 1871 to 1874.

As a result, in 1874, the Pennsylvania legislature passed an act allowing for the incorporation of title insurance companies.

Shoup was appointed commissioner to organize Lemhi County, and in 1874 he was elected to the territorial legislature.

The federal election law was changed in 1874 to prohibit Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from concurrently sitting in a provincial legislature.

Cauchon resigned his seat in the Quebec legislature in February 1874 when his " dual mandate " became illegal, and thereafter focused his attentions on federal advancement.

In the 1874 provincial election, Cornish declared himself a candidate for the Manitoba legislature in the constituency of Poplar Point.

Hyman was elected to the North Carolina Senate, where he served from 1868 to 1874 in the Reconstruction-era legislature.

In the election of 1874, Whyte was elected by the legislature as a Democrat to the United States Senate and accordingly resigned from the position of Governor.

In 1874, Cockrell, who became a member of the United States Democratic Party, was elected to the U. S. Senate from Missouri by the state legislature.

The Home Rule Party was set up by a group of Irish home Rule MPs ' at a meeting in Dublin on 3 March 1874 to pursue the restoration of an Irish legislature.

In 1872 three representatives-at-large were elected, but by the act of March 2, 1874, the legislature divided the state into three districts.

In 1872, three representatives-at-large were elected, but by the act of March 2, 1874, the legislature divided the state into three districts.

Farrell set out to fix the lack of a railroad with a controversial project, approved only after a bitter debate in the 1874 legislature, overriding the Governor ’ s veto.

In the first election after the Act was passed ( 1885 ), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

Reed became city solicitor of Portland 1874 – 1877, before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned.

In 1874, Stevenson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1875 to March 4, 1877.

There have been a total of 719 immortels, of whom six have been women ( the first woman, Marguerite Yourcenar, was elected in 1980 — besides the six elected women, 14 women were candidates, the first one in 1874 ).

* Joel Parker ( 1816 – 88 ), 20th Governor of New Jersey, elected to two non-consecutive terms ( 1863 – 1866 and 1871 – 1874 ).

The town's violent crime rate was substantial during the 1870s, Grant County Sheriff Harvey Whitehill was elected in 1874, and gained a sizable reputation for his abilities at controlling trouble.

In 1872, he was elected Register of Wills for Luzerne County, and in 1874, became the first clerk of the Orphans ' Court.

However, in 1874, he was elected as a member of the Executive Council and shortly after became the Vice-President of the Transvaal.

In 1874 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hertford and represented that constituency until 1885.

In 1874, he was elected to Congress again as an independent and served the following two terms, again as a Republican ( 1875 – 1879 ).

In 1874 he was elected as U. S. Senator from Rhode Island, was re-elected in 1880, and served until his death in 1881.

In 1874 he was elected General Councillor of the Aube département, and was sent by the same département to the Chamber of Deputies in the general elections of 1876, and he was always re-elected until his presidency.

In the elections of 1874 and 1876, Pinchback was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives and then the U. S. Senate respectively ; he was the state's first African-American representative to Congress.

The Mississippi Legislature elected Ames to the U. S. Senate after the readmission of Mississippi to the Union ; he served from February 24, 1870 to January 10, 1874, as a Republican.

Lord Inthawichayanon, Lord of Chiengmai, thus elected a Shan named Chankale ( ชานกะเล ) to be its first partasakti ( บรรดาศ ั กด ิ์; bandasak ; somewhere between a count, in non-prerogative terms, and a governor ) and bestowed on him the title of Phaya Singhanat Racha, or Sacred Voice of the King of the Singh ( พญาส ิ งหนาทราชา ), who would govern the mueang of Mae Hong Son from 1874, corresponding to the Rattanakosin Period of Rama V.

In 1874, Virginia regained its right to self-governance and elected James L. Kemper as Governor.

As the elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1874, he gave a long keynote speech at the Association's annual meeting held that year in Belfast.

In 1874, Willard participated in the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) where she was elected the first corresponding secretary.

Churchill was elected Arkansas State Treasurer in 1874, and was reelected in 1876 and 1878.

Hughes was elected to the post of Arkansas Attorney General and served from 1874 to 1877.

The new constitution was ratified on October 13, 1874 and Democratic officials elected almost unanimously, including new Democratic Governor Augustus H. Garland who was inaugurated November 12, 1874, and Baxter left office after only serving two years of a four year term.