Sen. Powhatan Ellis

Former Senator for Mississippi

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Ellis was a senator from Mississippi and was a Jackson. He served from 1827 to 1833.

He was previously a senator from Mississippi as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827.

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Powhatan Ellis is pronounced:

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