Andrew H. Longino

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= Andrew H. Longino

|image name= Andrew_Longino.jpg

|party= Democratic

|order1= 35th

|title1=Governor of Mississippi

|term_start1= January 16, 1900

|term_end1= January 19, 1904

|lieutenant1= James T. Harrison

|predecessor1= Anselm J. McLaurin

|successor1= James K. Vardaman

|office2= Member of the Mississippi Senate

|term2= 1880-1884

|birth_date= {{birth date|1854|05|16|mf=y}}

|birth_place= Lawrence County, Mississippi

|death_date= {{death date and age|1942|02|24|1854|05|16|mf=y}}

|death_place= Jackson, Mississippi

|profession = Lawyer

|spouse= Marion Buckley}}

Andrew Houston Longino (May 16, 1854 – February 24, 1942) was an American politician from Mississippi who served as a Democrat in the Mississippi State Senate (1880–1884), the U.S. District Attorney's (1888–1890), and Governor's offices (1900–1904).

Early life and education

Longino was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He attained education at Mississippi College, where he graduated in 1875, and at the University of Virginia, where he earned a law degree in 1880.

The surname Longino is of Italian origin, although his family had resided in the American South since the eighteenth century.{{Cite web|url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/italians/|title = Italians}} He has been identified as the third U.S. governor of Italian-American descent, after Caesar Rodney and William Paca who held office in the 18th century and had distant Italian ancestry.{{cite journal|first=Frank J.|last=Cavaioli|title=Italian-American Governors|journal=Italian Americana|volume=25|number=2|pages=133-159}}

Political career and death

During his term as governor, Longino began a campaign to attract new industries to the state. He supervised designing and building a new Mississippi State Capitol still in use today. Also of note, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History was created and a new penitentiary at Parchman Farm was constructed during his administration.{{cite news |first=David G. |last=Sansing |author1-link=David Sansing|title=Andrew Houston Longino Thirty-fifth Governor of Mississippi: 1900-1904 |url=http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=136 |publisher=Mississippi History Now |date=January 2004}}

Governor Longino invited president Theodore Roosevelt to a bear hunt in the Mississippi Delta, an event which inspired the creation of the teddy bear.{{cite news |first=Douglas |last=Brinkley |title=The Great Bear Hunt |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030618165952/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river6.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 18, 2003 |publisher=National Geographic News |date=2001-05-05}}

Longino died at age 87 and was interred at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.

References

External links

{{Find a Grave}}
[http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_mississippi/col2-content/main-content-list/title_longino_andrew.html Profile] at National Governors Association website

{{s-ttl|title=Democratic nominee for Governor of Mississippi|years=1899}}

{{succession box

|before=Anselm J. McLaurin

|title=Governor of Mississippi

|years=1900-1904

|after=James K. Vardaman

}}

Category:1854 births

Category:1942 deaths

Category:Democratic Party governors of Mississippi

Category:Democratic Party Mississippi state senators

Category:University of Virginia School of Law alumni