Historical Marker
Gov. A. H. Longino House
Monticello, Lawrence County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1978
Longino was born in Lawrence County on May 16, 1854, and became the first Mississippi governor with a degree from one of the state's own colleges, Mississippi College at Clinton. He studied law at the University of Virginia and was admitted to the bar in 1881, then served as legislator, district attorney and chancellor before winning in 1899. He was the first governor elected after the Civil War who had not been a Confederate veteran, and the last nominated by a party convention; the state adopted the primary in 1903. He urged Mississippians to welcome new technology.
Where it stands
31.55349, -90.10292 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Prentiss Institute — 15 miA school for Black Mississippians founded in 1907 in a former plantation house, with a restored 1926 Rosenwald building that now holds a museum.
More markers nearby
- A. H. Longino — steps away
- J. B. Lenoir — 0.3 mi
- Cooper's Ferry — 0.3 mi
- First Choctaw Cession — 14 mi