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                  <text>DeeDee Baldwin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assistant Professor, History Research Librarian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu"&gt;dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Jackson, June 26 1875&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lieut Gov. &lt;a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/alexander-kelso-davis--noxubee"&gt;A K. Davis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acting Gov.&lt;br /&gt;Jackson—&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sir—&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I herewith tender my resignation as state Senator for the 28th Senatorial Dist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am Sir&lt;br /&gt;Very Respectfully.&lt;br /&gt;Your Obt. Servant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/george-c--smith--coahoma-count"&gt;G. C. Smith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>Document at the &lt;a href="https://cwrgm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;Civil War &amp;amp; Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project&lt;/a&gt;. Original held at the Mississippi Department of Archives &amp;amp; History.</text>
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