Wilson Hemingway
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Secretary of State of Mississippi
| termstart = January 1843
| termend = January 1847
| order = 8th
| predecessor = L. G. Galloway
| successor = Samuel Stamps
| governor = Tilghman Tucker
Albert G. Brown
| death_date = {{death date and age|1859|5|12|1805||}}
| death_place = Carroll County, Mississippi
| birth_date = {{circa}} {{birth year|1805}}
| birth_place = Horry County, South Carolina
}}
Wilson Hemingway (c. 1805 – May 12, 1859) was an American politician. He was the 8th Secretary of State of Mississippi, serving from 1843 to 1847.
Biography
Wilson Hemingway was born circa 1805, in Horry County, South Carolina.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKNRAAAAMAAJ&q=+1805+1859|title=My Mother's Family: Hemingway, Giles, Patterson, Jenkins|date=2002|publisher=E.C. Wicker|pages=22|language=en}} He was the son of William Hemingway and Margaret (Wilson) Hemingway. Wilson Hemingway was one of the early settlers of Carroll County, Mississippi.{{Cite book|last=Davis|first=Jefferson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXonmIMRI4oC&dq=wilson+hemingway+mississippi&pg=PA293|title=The Papers of Jefferson Davis: June 1841–July 1846|date=1975-02-01|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-0082-0|pages=293|language=en}} Hemingway became the Secretary of State of Mississippi in January 1843.{{Cite book|last=Rowland|first=Dunbar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLC0kgvJJG4C|title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi|date=1917|publisher=Department of Archives and History|pages=170|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WE3AQAAMAAJ&q=bell|title=Department Reports|date=1900|pages=179|language=en}} His tenure in office ended in January 1847, and he was succeeded in office by Samuel Stamps. From 1847 to 1851, Hemingway was the clerk of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Mississippi). After his term ended, Hemingway returned from Jackson to Carroll County. In 1850, Hemingway was one of the incorporators of the Carroll County Manufacturing Company. Hemingway died in his residence in Carroll County on May 12, 1859.{{Cite news |date=1859-05-18 |title=Death of Hon. "Wilton" Hemingway |pages=1 |work=The Times-Picayune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118740588/death-of-hon-wilton-hemingway/ |access-date=2023-02-16}}
References
{{Secretaries of State of Mississippi}}
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Category:People from Carroll County, Mississippi