James F. Trotter paper, 1866 [manuscript].

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James F. Trotter paper, 1866 [manuscript].

Last charge made by Trotter, judge and former U.S. senator, to the De Soto County, Miss., grand jury, reflecting on the Civil War and, extensively, on the revolution in criminal law made by the postwar legislature.

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Trotter, James F., 1802-1866.

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James Fisher Trotter (1802-1866), born in Virginia, served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, 1827-1829; Mississippi state senator, 1829-1833; judge of the Mississippi Circuit Court, 1833 and 1866, and Supreme Court, 1839-1842; United States senator, 1838; and a professor of law at the University of Mississippi, 1860-1862. From the guide to the James F. Trotter Paper, ., 1866, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection....