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H. Claiborne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Thompson" title="Jacob Thompson">Jacob Thompson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_House_of_Representatives" title="Mississippi House of Representatives">Mississippi House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1835–1836</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1808-09-30</span>)</span>September 30, 1808<br /><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a>, Maine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 1, 1850<span style="display:none">(1850-07-01)</span> (aged 41)<br /><a href="/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi" title="Natchez, Mississippi">Natchez</a>, Mississippi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Lawyer, politician</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Seargent Smith Prentiss</b> (September 30, 1808 – July 1, 1850) was an American attorney and politician. He served as a state representative in <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> and then was elected in 1838 as US representative from the state in the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-fifth_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Twenty-fifth United States Congress">Twenty-fifth United States Congress</a>, serving one term from 1838 to 1839. Prentiss was noted as one of the most remarkable orators of his day. <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>, known himself as a great orator, said that he had never heard a speaker as powerful as Prentiss. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seargent_Smith_Prentiss&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prentiss was born September 30, 1808, in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a> in Massachusetts' <a href="/wiki/District_of_Maine" title="District of Maine">District of Maine</a>. He was the son of Captain William Prentiss, a prosperous shipmaster, and his wife. Seargent contracted a virulent fever as an infant, which caused the loss of the use of his limbs for several years. His right leg never fully recovered.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, the economic embargo against the United Kingdom brought his father to the verge of ruin. The family relocated to <a href="/wiki/Gorham,_Maine" title="Gorham, Maine">Gorham, Maine</a>, near Seargent's maternal grandfather Major George Lewis and his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-memoir_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-memoir-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prentiss attended <a href="/wiki/Gorham_Academy" title="Gorham Academy">Gorham Academy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brunswick,_Maine" title="Brunswick, Maine">Brunswick</a>. He graduated from Bowdoin at age 17 and began the study of law in the office of <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Pierce" title="Josiah Pierce">Josiah Pierce</a> in Gorham.<sup id="cite_ref-memoir_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-memoir-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seargent_Smith_Prentiss&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1826, he went to <a href="/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi" title="Natchez, Mississippi">Natchez, Mississippi</a> as a teacher. He continued to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1829.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg/220px-Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg/330px-Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg/440px-Felix_Huston_S_S_Prentiss.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1161" data-file-height="332" /></a><figcaption>"<a href="/wiki/Felix_Huston" title="Felix Huston">Felix Huston</a> & S. S. Prentiss" <i>Southern Galaxy</i>, January 28, 1830</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1832, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi" title="Vicksburg, Mississippi">Vicksburg, Mississippi</a> and won a suit involving title to the most valuable part of the city. The property which he obtained as his fee made him one of the wealthiest men of Mississippi. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1835 as a <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a slaveholder.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo2142022_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo2142022-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 1837, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> <a href="/wiki/John_F._H._Claiborne" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. H. Claiborne">John F. H. Claiborne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Gholson" title="Samuel J. Gholson">Samuel J. Gholson</a> were re-elected to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> in a <a href="/wiki/1837_Mississippi%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1837 Mississippi's at-large congressional district special election">special election</a>. In November 1837, Mississippi held the regular election. Prentiss launched a vigorous, partisan campaign. He and fellow Whig <a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Word" title="Thomas J. Word">Thomas J. Word</a> won in an upset. Claiborne and Gholson then argued that the July result entitled them to serve full terms. The House agreed to hear Prentiss. He spoke for nine hours over three days, packing the gallery, drawing Senators, and earning a national reputation for oratory and public admiration from leading Whigs including Senators <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Clay</a> and Webster. The Elections Committee then required a <a href="/wiki/1838_Mississippi%27s_at-large_congressional_district_special_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1838 Mississippi's at-large congressional district special election">third election</a>. Held in April 1838, it confirmed the November result. Both Whigs were seated in May late in the second session, also serving for the third session.<sup id="cite_ref-Directory_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Directory-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Writing about Prentiss's time in Congress, longtime Washington journalist <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Perley_Poore" title="Benjamin Perley Poore">Benjamin Perley Poore</a> said that Prentiss was "the most eloquent speaker that I have ever heard":</p><blockquote><p>The lame and lisping boy from Maine had ripened, under the Southern sun, into a master orator. The original, ever-varying, and beautiful imagery with which he illustrated and enforced his arguments impressed Webster, Clay, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Everett" title="Edward Everett">Everett</a>, and even <a href="/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">John Quincy Adams</a>. But his forte lay in arraigning his political opponents, when his oratory was "terrible as an army with banners;" nothing could stand against the energy of his look, gesture, and impassioned logic, when once he was fairly under way, in denouncing the tricks and selfish cunning of mere party management. The printed reports of his speeches are mere skeletons, which give but a faint idea of them.<sup id="cite_ref-Poore_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poore-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Prentiss was publicly embarrassed by his mounting financial troubles. He had made property investments based on disputed land holdings. He served only one term in Congress. </p><p>Prentiss later went on the lecture circuit. He reportedly rarely gave speeches from prepared notes and, instead, would ad-lib for hours to large crowds that often begged him for more. </p><p>After Mississippi repudiated her state bonds, Prentiss, who had opposed this action, moved to New Orleans in 1845. He became a leader of the city's bar, and prominent in philanthropic work. </p><p>He died at his mother-in-law's house outside Natchez on July 1, 1850, at age 41.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His death shocked the nation. Prentiss had been considered among the most gifted young men in the nation. He is buried at Gloucester Plantation Cemetery in Natchez. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors_and_awards">Honors and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seargent_Smith_Prentiss&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honors and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:22-28-167-prentiss.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/22-28-167-prentiss.jpg/220px-22-28-167-prentiss.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/22-28-167-prentiss.jpg/330px-22-28-167-prentiss.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/22-28-167-prentiss.jpg/440px-22-28-167-prentiss.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2292" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>Painting of Prentiss on display at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Warren_County_Courthouse" title="Old Warren County Courthouse">Old Warren County Courthouse</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Prentiss_County,_Mississippi" title="Prentiss County, Mississippi">Prentiss County, Mississippi</a> was named for Seargent Prentiss when it was formed on April 15, 1870. <a href="/wiki/Prentiss,_Mississippi" title="Prentiss, Mississippi">Prentiss, Mississippi</a> was founded in 1903, and became the seat of <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_County,_Mississippi" title="Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi">Jefferson Davis County</a> in 1906.<sup id="cite_ref-The_American_Counties_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_American_Counties-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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