County, Kentucky. He was educated at Transylvania University and at

the U.S. Military Academy. After his graduation in 1828, he served in

the army until bad health forced him to reside in 1835. He was a

farmer in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. Then he was elected to the

U.S. congress. In 1846, he resigned his seat in order to serve in the

Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he

was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to

1857, and a U.S. Senator again from 1857 to 1861. As a Senator, he

was in support of slavery and states' rights. "He also influenced Pice

to sign in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which favored the South and

increased the bitterness of the struggle over slavery. " In his second

term as a Senator he became the spokesman for the Southern point

mills, and a reat lack of arms and ammunition. "The South's only

to try and secure help from England and France. These

the conditions got. In other words, he stood up for what he believed

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