Date of Award
6-1930
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in History
First Advisor
Charles S. Sydnor
Second Advisor
F. E. Farquear
Third Advisor
N. B. Bond
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
Jacob Thompson moved from North Carolina to northern Mississippi in the mid-1830's where he became a wealthy attorney, landowner and slaveholder. He served as a Mississippi congressman for twelve years, served as President Buchanan's Secretary of the Interior, resigned in January 1861 to serve in the Confederate military, and was appointed by Jefferson Davis to supervise covert activities based out of Canada. Thompson contributed a great deal to Oxford and to the establishment of the new university there. Southern newspapers and histories of the time lauded him as an honorable and accomplished statesman, but Thompson remains a largely neglected figure of the 19th century.
Recommended Citation
Oldham, Dorothy Zollicoffer, "Life of Jacob Thompson" (1930). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1952.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1952