Jesse Speight was a North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 and Mississippi

Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...

 politician in the nineteenth century.

Born in Greene County, North Carolina

Greene County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 18,974 people, 6,696 households, and 4,955 families residing in the county. The population density was 72 people per square mile . There were 7,368 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...

, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons

North Carolina House of Representatives

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 in 1820, serving as Speaker of the House

Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives

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, and was a member of the North Carolina Senate

North Carolina Senate

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 from 1823 to 1827. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 in 1828, serving from 1829 to 1837, not being a candidate for renomination in 1836. Speight moved to Plymouth, Mississippi

Plymouth, Mississippi

Plymouth was an early settlement in the U.S. state of Mississippi in present-day Lowndes County. Plymouth was located at on the west bank of the Tombigbee River. It was formed around 1819, nucleating at the fortified house of John Pitchlynn, the U.S. interpreter for the Choctaw Agency for...

 and was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1841 to 1844, serving as its president from 1842 to 1843. He was elected a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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 to the United States Senate

United States Senate

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 in 1844, serving from 1845 until his death, where he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills and Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate

United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate

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. Speight died in Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus, Mississippi

Columbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States that lies above the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, north of Meridian, south of Tupelo, northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and west of Birmingham, Alabama. The population was 25,944 at the 2000 census...

 on May 1, 1847 and was interned in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.

External links

• Jesse Speight at Find A Grave
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