Murdock M. McLeod (Hinds County)

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M. M. McLeod

State House: 1884-1885
Secretary of State: Oct-Nov 1873

Born: c. 1847 in Ohio
Died: December 1895 in Aberdeen, MS

Attorney who served as Jackson’s city clerk. Most commonly referred to as M. M. McLeod. In October 1873, Governor Ridgley Powers appointed him Secretary of State, a position he resigned only weeks later. Listed on the 1880 census in Jackson with wife Caledonia (“Callie”). Callie died in 1907, and the Clarion-Ledger called her “one of the wealthiest negro women of the south.”

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Memorial on Find A Grave

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"Freemasonry in Mississippi" illustration

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Vicksburg Herald, 18 Nov 1873

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Daily Mississippi Pilot, 29 Jul 1875

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Clarion-Ledger, 20 Aug 1879

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Clarion-Ledger, 26 May 1880

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Clarion-Ledger, 11 Oct 1882

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Daily New Mississippian, 4 Feb 1884

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State Ledger, 14 Mar 1884

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State Ledger, 25 Apr 1884

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Vicksburg Evening Post, 26 May 1884

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Aberdeen Examiner, 29 May 1884

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State Ledger, 17 Oct 1884

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Weekly Commercial Herald, 25 Sep 1885

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Clarion-Ledger, 21 Jul 1886

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Hinds County Gazette, 30 Oct 1886

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Weekly Democrat, 6 Feb 1889

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Yazoo Herald, 6 Jun 1890

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Clarion-Ledger, 5 Jul 1890

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Clarion-Ledger, 2 Sep 1891

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Vicksburg Evening Post, 25 Apr 1892

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Clarion-Ledger, 7 Jun 1894

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Weekly Clarion-Ledger, 13 Dec 1894

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Clarion-Ledger, 9 Mar 1895

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Natchez Democrat, 4 Dec 1895

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Clarion-Ledger, 4 Dec 1895

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Clarion-Ledger, 7 Dec 1895

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Weekly Clarion-Ledger, 1 Apr 1897

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Clarion-Ledger, 18 Apr 1907

Murdock M. McLeod