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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (August 26, 1808 – December 20, 1882) was an American politician from Mississippi. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and served as Governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, during Reconstruction .
Jan 9, 2019 · BENJAMIN G. HUMPHREYS, the twenty-sixth governor of Mississippi, was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi on August 26, 1808. His early education was attained in the common schools of his native state.
For five years after the Civil War, martial law and civil authority existed concurrently in Mississippi. That phenomenon created a constitutional entanglement that scholars have yet to unravel. Gov. Benjamin Grubb Humphreys had the misfortune of being caught in that knot of conflicting and often competing authority. When Humphreys was inaugurated on 16 October 1865, […]
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (August 26, 1808 – December 20, 1882) was an American politician from Mississippi. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and served as Governor of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868, during Reconstruction.
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys II (August 17, 1865 – October 16, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1903 to 1923. He was known by his constituents as "Our Ben."
The Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge was a two-lane cantilevered truss bridge carrying U.S. Route 82 / U.S. Route 278 across the Mississippi River between Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi. It was the first bridge to connect the two towns.
Benjamin Humphreys died on December 20, 1882. He is buried in Port Gibson, Mississippi in Wintergreen Cemetery. Humphreys County, Mississippi is named after him. His son, Benjamin, went on to become a United States Congressman for twenty years.
