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PLUMMER, Franklin E., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Massachusetts, birth date unknown;
completed preparatory studies; moved to Mississippi and taught school in Copiah County, Miss.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Westville, Miss.; held various local
offices; member of the State house of representatives; founded the town of Pittsburg (now part of
Grenada); elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4,
1831-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate; died in Jackson, Miss.,
September 24, 1847.
BibliographyMiles, Edwin A. Franklin E. Plummer: Piney Woods
Spokesman of the Jackson Era. Journal of Mississippi History 14 (January 1952):
2-34.
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