Jesse Speight (September 22, 1795 –
May 1, 1847) was a
North
Carolina
and Mississippi
politician in the nineteenth century.
Born in
Greene County,
North Carolina
, Speight attended country schools as a
child. He was a member of the
North Carolina House of
Commons in 1820, serving as
Speaker
of the House, and was a member of the
North Carolina Senate from 1823 to
1827. He was elected to the
United States House of
Representatives in 1828, serving from 1829 to 1837, not being a
candidate for renomination in 1836. Speight moved to
Plymouth, Mississippi and was a member
of the
Mississippi Senate from
1841 to 1844, serving as its
president from
1842 to 1843. He was elected a
Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1844, serving
from 1845 until his death, where he was chairman of the
Committee on
Engrossed Bills and
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.
Speight
died in Columbus,
Mississippi
on May 1, 1847 and was interned in Friendship Cemetery in
Columbus.
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