Ames, Adelbert

(1835–1933) governor; born in Rockland, Maine. A West Point graduate (1861), he saw continuous action, distinguishing himself at 1st Bull Run, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. Governor of the Mississippi military district (1868–70), he served in the U.S. Senate (Rep., Miss.; 1870–74). Returning as governor of Mississippi (1874–76), he was unable to quell widespread disorder, including the Vicksburg riots, and resigned when threatened with impeachment. He moved to New York City, investing in Minnesota flour mills and manufacturing in Lowell, Mass. As a volunteer brigadier general, he saw service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898, retiring to Lowell afterward.

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Our governor at the time, Governor Adelbert Ames, came up with the idea for Mississippi to participate and show its abundance of timber.

Celebrating Mississippi, celebrating the nation: the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition was a boon to Mississippi's timber industry

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The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

As a bloody melee unfolded, Morgan slipped through a window and, from hiding, wrote the Reconstruction governor of the state, Adelbert Ames. "We must have U.S.

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