Although such a disaster did not fall under the duties of the Commerce Department, the governors of six states along the Mississippi specifically asked for Herbert Hoover in the emergency.

He told his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn ( Indian affairs were then under the War Department ): " if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.

Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election.

Because the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the western United States, the Secretary of the Interior has typically come from a western state ; only one of the individuals to hold the office since 1949 is not identified with a state lying west of the Mississippi River.

( In March, Halleck's command was redesignated the Department of the Mississippi and enlarged to unify command in the West ).

Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in an unincorporated area in the county, near Tutwiler.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) is responsible for the state's correctional services, probation services, and parole services.

Between 2009 and 2012, the State of Mississippi had taken over all three Sunflower County school districts and put them under the conservatorship of the Mississippi Department of Education, due to academic and financial reasons.

SB2330 stipulates that if a county has three school districts all under conservatorship by the Mississippi Department of Education will have them consolidated into one school district serving the entire county.

As part of that project, 23 murals, in the form of paintings and mosaic tiles, were created in cooperation with the Art Department, Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and are on public display throughout the county.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) operates the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility ( CMCF ), which is located in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi State Hospital of the Mississippi Department of Mental Health is in Whitfield in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality operates the Central Regional Office and the MDEQ Laboratory in unincorporated Rankin County.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) operates the Quitman County Community Work Center ( CWC ) in an area near Lambert.

This was still true as of 2007, when the Mississippi Department of Education found that the students in the district were 97. 92 % African American, 1. 81 % White, and 0. 27 % Hispanic.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services's Division of Youth Services operated the Columbia Training School in unincorporated Marion County.

The Delta Correctional Facility, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in Greenwood in Leflore County.

The Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is in Walnut Grove.

It is operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

The Mississippi Department of Mental Health operates the South Mississippi State Hospital in unincorporated Lamar County, near Purvis.

Civilian Public Service worker distributes rat poison for typhus control in Gulfport, Mississippi, ca.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, with severe roof and water damage to the Bay St. Louis Public Library.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, gutting the Pearlington Public Library as a total loss, requiring a complete rebuild.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, gutting the Waveland Public Library, as a total loss, requiring a complete rebuild.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, flooding several feet in the Biloxi Public Library and breaking windows, beyond repair, requiring a total rebuild.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, gutting the Gulfport Public Library, first floor, and breaking windows on the second floor, beyond repair, requiring total reconstruction.

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, heavily damaging the Long Beach Public Library.

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Equestrian statues of him can be found at Kosciuszko Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, across from the Polish Basilica of St. Josaphat, Chicago's Museum Campus on Solidarity Drive and in Detroit on Michigan Ave. Other statues can be found in Boston Public Garden ; Scranton, Pennsylvania ; a bust in the U. S. Capitol as well as a statue Lafayette Park in Washington, D. C .; the United States Military Academy at West Point ; Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Florida ; and Red Bud Springs Memorial Park in Kosciusko, Mississippi ; in Kosciuszko Park in East Chicago, Indiana ; and ( with Kazimierz Pułaski ) in Poland, Ohio, a township and village named in honor of the two heroes of the American Revolution.

Mabus has been awarded the U. S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the U. S. Army ’ s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Martin Luther King Social Responsibility Award from the King Center in Atlanta, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award, the King Abdul Aziz Award from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Mississippi Association of Educators ’ Friend of Education Award.

He is a former member of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the Distinguished Lecturer on the Middle East at the University of Mississippi.

MSU's Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, WKAR-TV, the station is the second-oldest educational television station in the United States, and the oldest east of the Mississippi River.

On July 6, 2000, The United States Congress designated the U. S. Post Office in Wiggins, Mississippi, as the " Jay Hanna ' Dizzy ' Dean Post Office " by Public Law 106-236.

The International Public Debate Association ( IPDA ), inaugurated on February 15, 1997 at St. Mary's University ( Texas ) in San Antonio, Texas, is a national debate league currently active in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Florida, and Oklahoma.

In July 2010, Fresh Air was removed from Mississippi Public Broadcasting radio because of " recurring inappropriate content ", shortly after the broadcast of an interview with comedian Louis C. K.

Mennonite Civilian Public Service worker Harry Lantz distributes rat poison for Endemic typhus | typhus control in Gulfport, Mississippi.

The show is a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, in Mississippi.

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Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.

He co-chaired the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus and was a member of the following caucuses: the Bike Caucus ; the Caucus for Sustainable Development ; the Congressional Caucus on Global Road Safety ; the Congressional Human Rights Caucus ; the Congressional Steel Caucus ; the Medical Technology Caucus ; the Mississippi River Caucus ; the Native American Caucus and the Renewable Energy Caucus.

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