HERNANDO DE SOTO MONEY
Hernando De Soto Money, of Carrollton, was born August 26, 1889, in Holmes County, Miss.; was educated at the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss.; is a lawyer and planter; served in the Confederate army from the beginning of the war until September 26, 1864, when he was forced to retire from service by defective eyesight; was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in the Forty-Fourth. Forty-Fifth, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Seventh, Forty-Eighth, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses; in January, 1896, was elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1899; was appointed to the Senate October 8, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. Z. George on August 14, 1897; elected by the legislature to fill out the unexpired term ending March 3, 1899, and sworn in January 24, 1898.
