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[edit] Confusion between two Mississippi politicians named John Kyle

I'm sorting out on this talk page the relationship between two (perhaps related) John Kyles:

  • John W. Kyle
  • John Curtis Kyle

The article on the topic of John Curtis Kyle, currently John Kyle, has implied since '05 Nov that they are the same person, which is possible but not likely. The 1851-1913 one's entry on LoPbN was changed earlier in '06 July from the initial W to the name Curtis.

  • JWK Evidence
(Googling
"Senator John W. Kyle " -wikipedia
has only that one hit and
"Sen John W. Kyle " -wikipedia
has none. But see "Judge Kyle was from Sardis, a long time state senator" in Coleman, the next source.)
  • Oral history with the Honorable J. P. Coleman has, re Coleman being on "the Supreme Court of Mississippi" and Governor Fielding Wright
    ... Well, I hadn't been down there but two months, sat right by Judge Gus Smith all one day hearing cases argued and went back to the Capitol the next morning and they said, "Did you hear? Judge Smith died last night."
    Well, Fielding Wright wanted to appoint the Attorney General to his place, Judge Kyle, who was a Rhodes Scholar but no politician....
and
  • I was told that Judge Smith had died in his sleep that night. That's what caused the big shift around. Governor Wright wanted to appoint the Attorney General, the Honorable John W. Kyle, to Judge Smith's place, Northern District.
    Judge Kyle was from Sardis, a long time state senator, Rhodes Scholar, a very learned, scholarly fellow, but he was facing a campaign for election the very next year. He had been appointed to succeed Greek Rice as Attorney General when General Rice died. ...
    So, on one Monday morning, the twenty-third day of October, 1950, Judge Kyle was sworn into the Supreme Court.
    ...that's the story of how, in one calendar year, I was a state Circuit Judge, a Supreme Court Commissioner and Attorney General of the state.
  • JCK Evidence
    • The Political Graveyard - Panola County - Mississippi has
      John Curtis Kyle (1851-1913) — also known as John C. Kyle — of Sardis, Panola County, Miss. Born near Sardis, Panola County, Miss., July 17, 1851. Democrat. Member of Mississippi state senate, 1881; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 2nd District, 1891-97. Died July 6, 1913. Interment at Rosehill Cemetery.
    • KYLE, John Curtis, (1851 - 1913) (Bio. Dir'y from & of US Congress) has
      KYLE, John Curtis, (1851 - 1913)
      KYLE, John Curtis, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Sardis, Panola County, Miss., July 17, 1851; attended Bethel College, Tennessee, and was graduated from the Cumberland University Law School in 1874; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Sardis; mayor of Sardis 1879-1881; member of the State senate 1881-1885; member of the Mississippi Railroad Commission 1886-1890; chairman of the Democratic State executive committee in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking in Sardis; retired from active business pursuits in 1912; died in Sardis, Miss., July 6, 1913; interment in Rosehill Cemetery.

That's enough to satisfy me that i can remove the state-park error, and create a second article and a Dab, without creating new errors.
--Jerzy•t 16:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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