James L. Alcorn
Confederate Army general
Died when: 78 years 45 days (937 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a governor, and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi.A Moderate Republican and Whiggish scalawag, he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race.
Alcorn was the elected Republican governor of Mississippi.Although a Unionist, Alcorn briefly served as a Confederate brigadier-general of militia.
Among former Confederates who joined the postbellum Republican Party, only James Longstreet had been of higher rank than Alcorn.
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