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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiVARDAMAN, James Kimble
(1861—1930)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1919
Party:
Democrat
VARDAMAN, James Kimble, a Senator from Mississippi; born near Edna, Jackson County, Tex., July 26, 1861; moved to Mississippi in 1868 with his parents, who settled in Yalobusha County; attended the public schools; studied law in Carrollton, Miss.; admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Winona, Miss.; became editor of the Winona Advance; moved to Greenwood, Miss., where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in the newspaper business; member, State house of representatives 1890-1896, and served as speaker 1894; unsuccessful candidate for governor of Mississippi in 1895 and again in 1899; served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1892 and 1896; publisher of the Greenwood Commonwealth 1896-1903 and the Issue 1908-1912; Governor of Mississippi 1904-1908; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1907 and 1910; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1912 and served from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 and for election in 1922; chairman, Committee on the Conservation of Natural Resources (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Manufacturers (Sixty-fifth Congress); retired from active business pursuits in 1922 and moved to Birmingham, Ala., where he died June 25, 1930; interment in Lakewood Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
Bibliography
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. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
Coody, Archibald Stinson. Biographical Sketches of James K. Vardaman
. Jackson: A.S. Coody, 1922.
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35 (May 1973): 127-40.
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34 (February 1972): 49-55.
Holmes, William F. “James K. Vardaman: From Bourbon to Agrarian Reformer.” Journal of Mississippi History
31 (May 1969): 97-115.
___. The White Chief: James Kimble Vardaman
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
Huddleston, Wiley. “The Senatorial Campaign and Career of James Kimble Vardaman.” Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1935.
Ladner, Heber Austin. “James Kimble Vardaman in Mississippi Politics.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1938.
Lopez, Claira S. “James K. Vardaman and the Negro: The Foundation of Mississippi’s Racial Policy.” Southern Quarterly
3 (January 1965): 155-80.
McLemore, Nannie Pitts. “James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive.” Journal of Mississippi History
29 (February 1967): 1-11.
Osborn, George Coleman. James Kimble Vardaman, Southern Commoner
. Jackson: Hederman Brothers, 1981.
Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son
. 1941. Reprint. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
Prince, Vinton M., Jr. “Will Women Turn the Tide? Mississippi Women and the 1922 United States Senate Race.” Journal of Mississippi History
42 (August 1980): 212-20.
Robison, Daniel M. “From Tillman to Long: Some Striking Leaders of the Rural South.” Journal of Southern History
3 (August 1937): 289-310.
Strickland, William M. “James Kimble Vardaman: Manipulation Through Myths in Mississippi.” In The Oratory of Southern Demagogues
, edited by Cal M. Logue and Howard Dorgan, pp. 67-82. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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