Ethelbert Barksdale
Confederate Congressman, Mississippi, 1861-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, Mississippi, 1883-1887
Born: January 4, 1824, Smyrna, Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Died: February 17, 1893, Yazoo City, Mississippi.
- Brother of William Barksdale.
- Moved to Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi.
- Adopted journalism as a profession.
- Edited the official journal of the State of Mississippi, 1854-1861 and 1876-1883.
- Member of the Confederate Congress, 1861-1865.
- Delegate from Mississippi to the U. S. Democratic National Conventions in 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880.
- Presidential elector on the U. S. Democratic ticket of Tilden and Hendricks in 1876
- President of the Mississippi State electoral college, 1876.
- Chairman of the Mississippi Democratic State executive committee, 1877-1870.
- Elected as a Mississippi Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1887.
- Unsuccessful candidate for renomination, 1886.
- Engaged in agricultural pursuits in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)