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David Holmes (March 10, 1769August 20, 1832) was an American politician in Virginia and Mississippi. He served five terms as a US congressman from Virginia's 2nd congressional district, and later was important in Mississippi's development as a state. He was appointed by the federal government as the fourth and last governor of the Mississippi Territory. In 1817 he was unanimously elected as the first governor of the state of Mississippi. He served a term as US senator from Mississippi, appointed to fill a vacancy until elected by the legislature. Elected again as governor, he was forced to resign early due to ill health. He returned to Virginia in his last years.
Notes
- From "Memoranda For Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne, Relative To The Late Governor David Holmes Of Mississippi, His Lineage:
- David Holmes was the second son and child of the late Colonel Joseph Holmes of the Grove, Frederick County, Virginia—and his wife (born) Rebecca Hunter. Colonel Holmes, the father, was born in the north of Ireland not far from Londonderry; the son of Hugh Holmes a gentleman of fair property there, and emigrated alone of all his family to this country, many years before the Revolution, when he was sixteen years of age; in consequence (so the tradition of the family goes) of a second marriage of his father—after which he had no connection or communication with his relatives in his native country. Colonel Holmes was a man of good education, a successful merchant in Winchester, Virginia, before the Revolution, and was during the War of the Revolution Colonel Commissary of prisoners. As such he is referred to, by Lieu tenant-General Stewart in his memoirs who was the senior officer, among those prisoners taken at Saratoga, and who were removed from Charlottesville to Winchester during the war. Colonel Holmes, judging from his Coat of Arms, which he always had (after the old fashion) pasted in his books, came of the Holmes of Staffordshire, England, originally. He was a man of high toned character, of a high temper, too, and great spirit, many things are remembered of him illustrating all these traits, which need not be referred to here. His son David inherited enough of his peculiar traits to mark him as a man of scrupulous honor and undoubted courage, but the sweetness and gentleness of his disposition was derived from his mother, Mrs. Rebecca Holmes.
- [Source: Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society: Centenary series, Volume 4, by Mississippi Historical Society. pub. 1910].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Compilation of Hammond Hunter. Hammond Hunter. (1910).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 David Holmes (politician), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ From "A Trapnell Chronicle": 'His stone in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, WInchester, says he was a Senator from and a Govenor of Mississippi.'
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