James Alexander Ventress

James Alexander Ventress (1805-1867) was a lawyer, inventor, plantation owner, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Tennessee and moved to Mississippi with his family as a child. He studied at a school in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, an academy in New Orleans, and then fornuears in Europe. He pursued scientific research, was an avid reader and book collector, and an inventor.[1] He served in the Mississippi Senate and Mississippi House of Representatives, including as its speaker.[2] He married Charlotte Davis Pyncheon. They had several children, some died young.[2] W. P. S. Ventress, his son, followed him into state politics.

James Alexander Ventress served five terms in the state house and then two in the state senate.[3]

References
  1. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. The Society. 1902.
  2. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. 1907. ISBN 9780871522221.
  3. Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (April 5, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
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