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at his suggestion. Re-elected three times, he served 16 years on the commission, serving most of those years as chairman. In 1941 he moved from the plantation to a house in the town of Canton.
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On June 9, 1913 Casteel married Jean Calahan (1889-1914) of Pickens, who died September 9, 1914. On August 17, 1917 he married Annie Winters (1890-1970). They had one son, artist
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and served as the chairman of the Mississippi delegation. On the last day of the convention he rode a donkey down the aisle to his seat carrying an image of nominee
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Casteel was the son of Marion Lafayette Castell (1833-1892) and his wife Virginia Lindsey Casteel (1843-1914). He went to the public schools in
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in the Mississippi Senate in 1920 (although the amendment was then voted down, for a second time, in the House.)
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Casteel is buried in the Canton City Cemetery in Canton.
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After his term in office he purchased 400 acres near
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For his son, the American painter and sculptor, see
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H. H. Casteel
Homer Casteel Jr.

Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
Mississippi Senate
Mississippi Senate
Walnut Grove, Mississippi
Democratic
Mississippi Senate
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
Leake County
Mississippi Central Normal School
Pickens
Holmes County
Lee M. Russell
Nineteenth Amendment
Canton
Madison County
Public Service Commission
1928 Democratic National Convention
Houston
Texas
Al Smith
Homer Casteel Jr.
The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi
https://cite.case.law/miss/134/132/
http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/articles/245/mississippi-women-and-the-woman-suffrage-amendment
http://collections.msdiglib.org/digital/collection/madison/id/2589
Perth
Western Australia

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