Campaigns and Hurricanes: A History of Presidential Visits to Mississippi

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When William McKinley traveled to Mississippi in 1901, he became the first US president to consult with the state whilst in place of work. Though twenty-four men served as president prior to McKinley, none of them included Mississippi in their commute plans. Presidents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have a better record of visiting Mississippi. There were forty-five presidential trips to the state between 1901 and 2016. Thirty-three communities hosted a number of of the sixty-nine stops the presidents made All over those visits. George W. Bush is the unrivaled champion on the subject of the number and frequency of presidential visits. All over eight years in place of work, he visited Mississippi nineteen times, fourteen of those All over the state’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

Campaigns and Hurricanes: A History of Presidential Visits to Mississippi traces the presidential visits from William McKinley to Barack Obama and sets every consult with into its historical context. Readers will learn that of the forty-five visits made to Mississippi by sitting presidents, eighteen were for disaster recovery, eleven were to campaign, eight were in improve of policy proposals, three were purely recreational, and five had singular purposes–as an example, university commencement ceremonies or military inspections. Mixed in the history of these visits are anecdotes and discussions of issues, trends, politics, and the people shaping the moments that brought US presidents to Mississippi.

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