James A. Horne

{{short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox Officeholder

| name = James A. Horne

| order = 11th

| term_start = January 1852

| term_end = January 1854{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi | publisher = Brandon Printing | year = 1908 | url = https://archive.org/stream/officialstatisti00missuoft/officialstatisti00missuoft_djvu.txt | pages = 29}}

| governor = Henry S. Foote

| predecessor = Joseph Bell{{cite web | title = History of the Mississippi Secretary of State | publisher = Mississippi Secretary of State | url = http://www.sos.ms.gov/About/Pages/History.aspx | accessdate = December 26, 2016 | archive-date = December 26, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161226223210/http://www.sos.ms.gov/About/Pages/History.aspx | url-status = dead }}

| successor = William H. Muse

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|46|1865|8||noage=1}}

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| party = Whig (1860)

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| office = Secretary of State of Mississippi

}}

James A. Horne was an American politician.

Horne was born in 1818 or 1819.{{Cite book |last=Convention |first=Mississippi Constitutional |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T8UbshbgUzYC |title=Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi, August, 1865 |date=1865 |publisher=E. M. Yerger, state printer |isbn=978-1-4255-2772-3 |pages=279 |language=en}} In 1851, while living in Marion, Mississippi, Horne ran for the office of Secretary of State of Mississippi on the "Union Ticket" alongside Henry S. Foote.{{Cite news |date=1851-07-25 |title="Union Ticket" 1851 |pages=3 |work=The Port Gibson Herald, and Correspondent |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121688509/union-ticket-1851/ |access-date=2023-03-26}}{{Cite news |date=1851-06-03 |title=Clipped From Natchez Daily Courier |pages=2 |work=Natchez Daily Courier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121689000/natchez-daily-courier/ |access-date=2023-03-26}} He served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854. He later moved to the town of Winchester, Mississippi, where he was a banker by profession.{{Cite news |date=1865-08-15 |title=Clipped From Daily Mississippian |pages=3 |work=Daily Mississippian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121688243/daily-mississippian/ |access-date=2023-03-26}}{{cite web | title = Extinct Towns and Villages of Wayne County, Mississippi | publisher = Genealogy Trails | url = http://genealogytrails.com/miss/wayne/extinct_towns.htm | accessdate = December 26, 2016}} As a Whig, he participated in the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1865.