Hernando Money

Money was born in Holmes County, Mississippi, the son of Peirson and Triphena Money.{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=John A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feFEAQAAMAAJ |title=A Biographical History, with Portraits, of Prominent Men of the Great West. . |date=1902 |publisher=Western biographical and engraving Company |pages=270–271 |language=en}}"United States Census, 1860", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GH-CQC : Thu Oct 05 03:00:12 UTC 2023), Entry for Thos B Weed and Pearson Money, 1860. Retrieved 5 February 2024. He was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto. Early in his life, he moved with his father to Carrollton, Mississippi. He received his early education in the public schools and from a private tutor and subsequently graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall.Negus, W. H. (1900). "[https://archive.org/details/greeklettermenof01maxw/page/232/mode/2up?q=%22delta+psi%22 Delta Ps] i". In Maxwell, W. J. (ed.). Greek Lettermen of Washington. New York, New York: The Umbdenstock Publishing Co. pp. 231–234. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Carrollton, Mississippi, about 1860. James K. Vardaman was his cousin and political ally.Gatewood, Willard B. “A Republican President and Democratic State Politics: Theodore Roosevelt in the Mississippi Primary of 1903.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, 1984, pp. 428–36. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27550103. Accessed 5 Feb. 2024.

As a young man he served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. After the war, he established himself as an important planter, lawyer and newspaper editor in Mississippi. He first served in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1885, as a member of the United States Democratic Party, to which he would belong for the rest of his life. He decided not to run for reelection in 1884 and established a law partnership with former assistant attorney general Alfred A. Freeman."[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1885-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1878&sort=date&date2=1885&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=0&words=A+Freeman&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=a.+a.+freeman&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=7 A New Law Firm]," Washington Evening Star, 1 May 1885, p. 4. He continued to live in the capital, Washington, D.C., until 1891, when he returned to Carrollton. He served in the United States House again from Mississippi from 1893 to 1897.

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He married author Claudia Boddie, native of Jackson, Mississippi, and they had three daughters and two sons. The two younger daughters, Mabel Clare and Lillian Money, usually spent the winter in Washington with their parents. They both attended the Norwood Institute and the Berlitz School of Languages of Washington.{{cite book|last1=Hinman|first1=Ida|title=The Washington Sketch Book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924081310785|date=1895}}{{PD-notice}}

In 1897 he was appointed to the United States Senate from Mississippi following the death of James Z. George. He was elected to a full term in 1899 and reelected in 1905, and served in the Senate from 1897 to 1911. He was the chairman of the Committees on Corporations in the District of Columbia and expanded accommodations for the Library of Congress from 1907 to 1909. In 1903, he was one of many in opposition to the employment of African-American postal workers.{{Cite web|url=https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/african-american-workers-20thc.htm|title=African-American Postal Workers in the 20th Century - Who we are - About.usps.com|website=about.usps.com}} He was chairman of the Democratic Caucus from 1909 to 1911, when he decided to retire from the Senate. He returned to his home near Biloxi, Mississippi, where he died one year later. He was buried in the family vault in Carrollton.

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