Finis H. Little

Finis H. Little was a state legislator in Mississippi. A Republican, he served during the Reconstruction era.[1] He served with F. M. Abbott from the 22nd District.[2] He served as president pro tem of the state senate and chaired its finance committee.[3][4]

He served as an officer with a unit of the Union Army from Kentucky during the American Civil War.[5][6]

According to one account, he was part of a planned march of African American Republicans that was faced down by armed white supremacists allied with the Democratic Party.[7] In 1875 he wrote seeking protection for Republican voters in areas where they were a great majority, expressing his expectation of intimidation and Democratic Party control over polling.[8] In 1875 he also conveyed a message from the Republican Caucus of Mississippi to President Ulysses Grant seeking a change in the federal official overseeing U.S. Marshals in the area.[9] He described how whites in Aberdeen, Mississippi in Monroe County welcomed Klansmen home as heroes and lawyers offered them their services in defense against federal prosecution.[10]

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References

  1. ^ "Members Elected to the Legislature". The Clarion-Ledger. Jackson, Mississippi. 1869-12-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  2. ^ "Members elect to the Legislature". Mississippi Pilot. 1870-02-19. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  3. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi: Kimball, Raymond & Co. 1874. p. 192.
  4. ^ Watson, Michael (2021). Mississippi Official & Statistical Register – Blue Book 2020 - 2024 (PDF). Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Secretary of State. p. 553.
  5. ^ "Legislative Document No. 13 – Adjutant General's Report". Kentucky Public Documents. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky General Assembly. 1862.
  6. ^ Battle, J. H.; Perrin, William Henry; Kniffin, G. C. (1885). Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony; Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies; the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and Its Subsequent Development. F. A. Battey Publishing Company. p. 623.
  7. ^ Browne, F. Z. (1913). "Reconstruction in Oktibbeha County". Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 13: 288 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States for the First Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress, 1875–'76. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. pp. 54–55.
  9. ^ Grant, Ulysses Simpson (2003). The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1874. SIU Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8093-2498-9.
  10. ^ Hargrove, David M. (2019-01-17). Mississippi's Federal Courts: A History. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4968-1951-2.