Hernando De Soto Money was an American politician from the state of Mississippi.
14 Facts About Hernando Money
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Hernando Money was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto.
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Hernando Money received his early education in the public schools and from a private tutor and subsequently graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford, where he was a member of St Anthony Hall.
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Hernando Money was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Carrollton, Mississippi, about 1860.
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Hernando Money first served in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1885, as a member of the United States Democratic Party, to which he would belong for the rest of his life.
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Hernando Money decided not to run for reelection in 1884 and established a law partnership with former assistant attorney general Alfred A Freeman.
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Hernando Money continued to live in the capital, Washington, DC, until 1891, when he returned to Carrollton.
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Hernando Money served in the United States House again from Mississippi from 1893 to 1897.
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Hernando Money married author Claudia Boddie, native of Jackson, Mississippi, and they had three daughters and two sons.
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Hernando Money was elected to a full term in 1899 and reelected in 1905, and served in the Senate from 1897 to 1911.
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Hernando Money was the chairman of the Committees on Corporations in the District of Columbia and expanded accommodations for the Library of Congress from 1907 to 1909.
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Hernando Money was chairman of the Democratic Caucus from 1909 to 1911, when he decided to retire from the Senate.
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Hernando Money returned to his home near Biloxi, Mississippi, where he died one year later.
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Hernando Money was buried in the family vault in Carrollton.