Draft:Harvey R. Ware
Harvey Richard Ware (February 9, 1830 – September 10, 1888, or 1896) commonly known as H. R. Ware, was an American lawyer, judge, and public official.[1][2] He was a chancellor in the state of Mississippi, and later served as assistant United States district attorney.
Life and career
[edit]In 1875, he was appointed as chancellor by Governor Adelbert Ames to represent the 16th district chancery court in Hinds County, Mississippi.[3][4][5] He was involved in a report on the 1875 Mississippi elections in his role as chairman of the Mississippi Republican State Committee.[6][7]
Ware described certain Republicans as working for personal benefit with Bourbon Democrats, referring to members of the Democratic Party who were ideologically aligned with fiscal conservatism, and he felt that Republicans needed to focus on breaking voter color lines in order to end the faction of Bourbon Democrats.[8][9]
Ware served as assistant United States district attorney starting in 1876.[10][11] He lived in Brandon, Mississippi, in Rankin County in 1876.[12]
He was involved in negotiations over election security in 1902.[13]
Notes for dev
[edit]Ware was born in Frankfort, Kentucky. He served as a Major in the Confederate States Army. He was married to Mollie Stewart in 1860.
Ware had worked with the Mississippi House of Representatives, and later the Southern Claims Commission.
In 1882, the Hinds County Gazette described him as clever and reputable. His letters criticizing select Republicans he saw holding the party back are extant.
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References
[edit]- ^ "Article clipped from The Vicksburg Herald". The Vicksburg Herald. 26 February 1884. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-06-05 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar. Encyclopedia of Mississippi History Volume 1. p. 102 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Mississippi Judicial Personnel". AHGP Project Page.
- ^ "H. R. Ware, Esq". Clarion-Ledger. 1875-02-01. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-06-05 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Court, Mississippi Supreme (December 22, 1877). "Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi". Printed at the Courier and journal office – via Google Books.
- ^ Mississippi: Testimony as to Denial of Elective Franchise in Mississippi at the Elections of 1875 and 1876: Taken Under the Resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1876. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1877. p. 987 – via Google Books.
- ^ "How The Fight Goes On; Cheering Tidings From Mississippi. The Outlook In North Carolina. What Indiana May Do". The New York Times. 1876-09-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
- ^ Halsell, Willie D. (1941). "Republican Factionalism in Mississippi, 1882-1884". The Journal of Southern History. 7 (1): 84–101. doi:10.2307/2191268. JSTOR 2191268 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffery A. (2020-03-19). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968. Cambridge University Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-1-108-85082-7.
- ^ "House documents". December 22, 1884 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Harvey Ware appointed District attorney, 1876". Mississippi Democrat. 1876-07-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
- ^ Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. p. 415 – via Google Books.
- ^ Mississippi Historical Society (December 22, 1902). Riley, Franklin L. (ed.). Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. Vol. VI. The Society – via Google Books.