Monroe McClurg

{{Short description|American lawyer (1857–1925)}}

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Monroe McClurg (March 19, 1857- April 1925) was a lawyer who served as Attorney General of Mississippi from 1900-1903. He also served in the state legislature. While serving as Attorney General he was a member of the State House Commission.{{Cite web|url=https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/shc/s0637?page=5|title=Page 5 - State House Commission Minutes, 1900-1904|website=MS Digital Archives}}

He was born in Vaiden, Mississippi where he established a law practice. He eventually relocated his home and business to Greenwood, Mississippi. He married and had two daughters and a son, who was named after him.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUwTAAAAYAAJ&dq=monroe+mcclurg&pg=PA543|title=Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form|first=Dunbar|last=Rowland|date=December 12, 1907|publisher=Southern Historical Publishing Association|isbn=9780871522221 |via=Google Books}} He was reportedly introduced once as "the red-headed Scotch-Irish Democrat."The Greenville Times, Greenville, Mississippi, January 27, 1900 page 4

He wrote The Courts, the Bench and the Bar of Mississippi.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4hQUAAAAYAAJ|title=The Courts, the Bench and the Bar of Mississippi|first=Monroe|last=McClurg|date=December 12, 1902|via=Google Books}} He also authored The State of Louisiana Versus the State of Mississippi; Disputed Boundary in the Waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Original Suit in the Supreme Court of the United States. March 19, 1924, he addressed law school students at the University of Mississippi.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmBkHQAACAAJ | title=Address: Delivered Before the Law School Students of the University of Mississippi, March 19th, 1924 | last1=McClurg | first1=Monroe | date=1924 }}