James Campbell Wilkins served as a member of the first Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi in 1817. When Governor Abram M. Scott appointed him in 1832 to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Senate that had been "made vacant by the elevation to the bench of the U.S. District Court of the Hon. Powhatan Ellis," he declined "on account of ill health."
Sources: Vermont Gazette, Bennington, Vermont, 18 December 1832, page [3], col. 2.
WorldCat, "James Campbell Wilkins papers, 1801–1852, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania."
Sources: Vermont Gazette, Bennington, Vermont, 18 December 1832, page [3], col. 2.
WorldCat, "James Campbell Wilkins papers, 1801–1852, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania."
James Campbell Wilkins served as a member of the first Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi in 1817. When Governor Abram M. Scott appointed him in 1832 to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Senate that had been "made vacant by the elevation to the bench of the U.S. District Court of the Hon. Powhatan Ellis," he declined "on account of ill health."
Sources: Vermont Gazette, Bennington, Vermont, 18 December 1832, page [3], col. 2.
WorldCat, "James Campbell Wilkins papers, 1801–1852, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania."
Sources: Vermont Gazette, Bennington, Vermont, 18 December 1832, page [3], col. 2.
WorldCat, "James Campbell Wilkins papers, 1801–1852, Natchez, Mississippi, also Louisiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania."
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