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James Rhea Preston (January 22, 1853 – April 3, 1922) was an educator and administrator who owned a school in Natchez, Mississippi and served as its president, served as a college president in Jackson, Mississippi and served as Mississippi Superintendent of Schools.
a "staunch Democrat" in 1875 he "assisted in redeeming the state from radical misrule."[1]
https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZAVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31&dq="james+rhea+preston"+superintendent&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj10M2X2OmIAxXeSTABHVtRGkUQ6AF6BAgOEAM
married and had three.. 3? https://books.google.com/books?id=yhYbAAAAYAAJ&q=James+Rhea+Preston+virtute&dq=James+Rhea+Preston+virtute&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP65371umIAxXuLtAFHXJVDzY4ChDoAXoECAIQAw
He was born in Washington County, Virginia.[2] He studied at Georgetown University and Emory and Henry College.[3]
Owned and served as president of Stanton College for Young Women in Natchez, Mississippi. Later served as president of Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi.
He proposed the state motto, Virtute et armis, Latin for by valor and arms. https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-is-the-mississippi-state-motto.html Doesn't it mean Virtue and Arks?
References
[edit]- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=p-fgHRVWmd0C&pg=PA614&dq="james+rhea+preston"+superintendent&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj10M2X2OmIAxXeSTABHVtRGkUQ6AF6BAgHEAM
- ^ "New York School Journal". 1895.
- ^ Goodspeed's (April 1999). Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part II. Pelican. ISBN 9781565546097.