John A. Grimball
2nd Secretary of State of Mississippi
In office
January 1821 – January 1833
Preceded byDaniel Williams
Succeeded byDavid Dickson
Personal details
Died(1867-09-25)September 25, 1867
Hinds County, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyWhig

Colonel John Audebert Grimball (died September 25, 1867) was an American politician. He was the 2nd Secretary of State of Mississippi, serving from 1821 to 1833.

Biography

John Audebert Grimball was one of six children of Thomas Grimball and Ann (Audebert) Grimball.[1] In 1821, Grimball was elected by the Mississippi Legislature to succeed Daniel Williams as the Secretary of State of Mississippi after Williams's resignation.[2][3] Grimball was re-elected on January 7, 1824; January 11, 1826; January 12, 1828; January 13, 1830; and December 1, 1831.[3] In the 1837 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Grimball ran for the office of the Governor of Mississippi as a Whig, but lost to Democrat Alexander McNutt.[4][5][6] Grimball died on September 25, 1867, in Hinds County, Mississippi.[7]

Personal life

Grimball married Eugenia Bray.[1] Their daughter, Laura, married Taliaferro J. Lenoir in 1847.[1][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c Stafford, George Mason Graham (1943). General Leroy Augustus Stafford: His Forebears and Descendants. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 398.
  2. ^ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1821). Journal. p. 29.
  3. ^ a b Mississippi (1898). Department Reports. p. 92.
  4. ^ Capace, Nancy (2001-01-01). Encyclopedia of Mississippi. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-403-09603-9.
  5. ^ Hagstette, Todd (2017-08-10). Reading William Gilmore Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-773-2.
  6. ^ Busbee, Westley F. Jr. (2015-01-20). Mississippi: A History. John Wiley & Sons. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-118-75590-7.
  7. ^ "Col. John A. Grimball". Clarion-Ledger. 1867-10-06. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  8. ^ "Taliaferro J. Lenoir and Laura A. Grimball marriage announcement". The Weekly Mississippian. 1847-12-10. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
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