Talk:List of lieutenant governors of Mississippi

Fixes: Lipscomb, Guion, Whitfield
Lipscomb died June 22, 1850, so he did not serve until 1851. He was presumably replaced as senate president by John Guion, because Guion became governor when Governor Quitman resigned on Feb. 3, 1851. Some sources claim Guion served because Lipscomb was living but gravely ill, but this is almost certainly an error as multiple good sources put Lipscomb's death in mid-1850. (See this transcript from a Nashville newspaper, for instance: https://www.tngenweb.org/records/tn_wide/obits/nca/nca50-05.htm ) Guion served as governor until November 4, 1851, when the end of his state senate term ended his term. The office was then vacant until Whitfield was elected president of the senate (and thus governor) on November 24th. He served as governor until January 10, 1852. I think it would be illogical to list him as both governor and president of the senate for that period of time; I don't know if he retained his senate post, but he wasn't "lieutenant governor" since he could hardly be his own successor. If the list is correct, he went back to being senate president for the rest of his senate term. See http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=122 Brianyoumans (talk) 01:54, 23 November 2019 (UTC)