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Gerard Brandon

Gerard Chittocque Brandon
4th & 6th Governor of Mississippi
In office
November 17, 1825 – January 7, 1826
Lieutenant Vacant
Preceded by Walter Leake
Succeeded by David Holmes
In office
July 25, 1826 – January 9, 1832
Lieutenant Vacant
Abram M. Scott
Preceded by David Holmes
Succeeded by Abram M. Scott
4th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
In office
1824–1826
Governor Walter Leake
Preceded by David Dickson
Succeeded by Abram M. Scott
In office
1826–1826
Governor David Holmes
Preceded by Vacant
Succeeded by Vacant
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
In office
1822
Personal details
Born (1788-09-15)September 15, 1788
Natchez, Mississippi Territory
Died March 28, 1850(1850-03-28) (aged 61)
Fort Adams, Mississippi
Resting place Columbian Springs Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi
Nationality American
Alma mater

Princeton University

College of William & Mary

Princeton University

Gerard Chittocque Brandon (September 15, 1788 – March 28, 1850) was an American political leader who twice served as Governor of Mississippi during its early years of statehood.

Gerard Brandon was the son of Irish immigrant, Gerard Chittocque Brandon, who established and ran the Selma Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi and Dorothy Nugent, the daughter of Irish immigrants Matthew Nugent and Isabel MacBray. The couple moved to Mississippi from South Carolina sometime in 1785.

Brandon was born September 15, 1788 in Natchez, in the Territory of Mississippi, the second child and first son of the family. He was educated at Princeton University and the College of William & Mary, and served in the War of 1812. He later practiced law at Washington, Mississippi and was a successful planter, following his father's footsteps, in Adams County, Mississippi.

He married Margaret Chambers on January 18, 1816 in Bardstown, Kentucky. In 1817 Gerard Brandon bought Windy Hill Manor. At his death, Windy Hill Manor was inherited by his daughter, Elizabeth, who married William Stanton. Elizabeth and William's descendants lived at Windy Hill Manor until the 1940s. The last in the line were three unmarried sisters, Elizabeth, Maude and Beatrice. When the last sister died in 1945, the house sat abandoned until 1965, when it was demolished.

After Margaret Chambers's death in June 1820, Gerard Brandon married Betsy Stanton on July 12, 1824 in Adams County, Mississippi. The governor had a total of eight children with his two wives.

Brandon died, at the age of 61, on March 28, 1850 and was buried in a private family cemetery at his Columbian Springs Plantation in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

A delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1817 and 1832, Gerard Brandon also helped draft Mississippi's first two constitutions. He served in the Mississippi Legislature and was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1822.


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