Zachary T. Champlin
Zachary T. Champlin | |
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![]() c. 1917 | |
Member of the Mississippi Senate from the 1st district | |
In office January 1918 – January 1920 | |
Preceded by | Francis M. Johnson |
Personal details | |
Born | Harrison County, MS | March 28, 1847
Died | September 15, 1924 Biloxi, Mississippi | (aged 77)
Political party | Democrat |
Children | 6 |
Parent | William A. Champlin (father) |
Zachary Taylor Champlin (March 28, 1847 – September 15, 1924) was a Democratic Mississippi state senator, representing the state's 1st senatorial district from 1918 to 1920.[1]
Biography
[edit]Zachary Taylor Champlin was born on March 28, 1847, in Handsboro, Harrison County, Mississippi.[1] He was the son of William Aaron Champlin, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875, and Margaret (Smith) Champlin, a native of Liverpool, England.[1] Champlin was educated in the private schools of Harrison County.[1] At the age of 15, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in the Civil War.[1]
Political career and later life
[edit]Champlin was a justice of the peace from 1888 to 1912.[1] After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in February 1907.[1] He was the Police Justice of Biloxi from 1912 to 1917.[1] After the state's first senatorial district was redistricted, Champlin was elected to represent it, composed of Harrison and Stone Counties, as a Democrat in the Mississippi Senate on February 10, 1917.[1] He died on September 15, 1924, in Biloxi, Mississippi.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Champlin was first married to Virginia White, who died before him.[1] He then married Wilhelmina Schulze.[1] Champlin had six children.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Rowland, Dunbar (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. pp. 757–758, 220.
- ^ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q59Q-HTVG : 18 July 2020), Judge Z T Champlin, 1924.