Guion served as governor for the remainder of Quitman’s term. Quitman resigned as governor after being indicted for violating federal laws by participating in an expedition to Cuba to promote slave trading.
Link to the catalog1851: John I. Guion becomes Mississippi’s seventeenth governor
Governor John I. Guion
1851: James Whitfield becomes Mississippi’s eighteenth governor
Governor James Whitfield
Whitfield served from 1851 to 1852.
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