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Edmond〔In some sources variant spelling Edmund appears.〕 Favor Noel (March 4, 1856 – July 30, 1927) was an American politician who was the governor of Mississippi from 1908 to 1912. He was an attorney, the son of a planter, and a member of the Democratic Party. ==Biography== Noel was born in Holmes County, Mississippi near the city of Lexington, the third of several children of Leland Noel, a planter from Paynefield, Essex County, Virginia, and Margaret Ann Sanders, daughter of a planter. Leland Noel and his brother Edmund were sent by their father as young men to Mississippi in 1835 from their home plantation Paynefield in Essex County, Virginia, to develop a property he had bought in Franklin County, Mississippi. They later purchased their own properties in Holmes County and married. Together with a third brother, William L. Noel, they each became major slaveholders, holding more than 150 slaves in total in 1860 before the Civil War. They cultivated extensive cotton plantations in Holmes County. Edmond Favor Noel was named after his paternal grandfather Edmund Faver Noel (in one spelling). The earliest Noel ancestor in America immigrated to the Virginia Colony in 1680; he was among French Huguenots who had come from London in that period. They had gone to England as Protestant refugees from religious persecution in France. Noel read the law and passed the bar, joining the Democratic Party. He was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives and later as a district attorney. In 1895 he was elected by white Democrats to the Mississippi State Senate. In 1890 the Democratic-dominated legislature had passed a new constitution with provisions that effectively disenfranchised most African Americans, a status enforced until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in 1965. Noel served in the U.S. Army in the Spanish–American War (1898). During his time in the State Senate, Noel authored Mississippi's primary election law and a constitutional amendment providing for an effective judiciary. Noel was re-elected in 1899. In 1903 he tried to gain the party nominati·on for governor of Mississippi but was unsuccessful. By that time the effective disenfranchisement of blacks had resulted in a one-party Democratic state; the only competitive races in the state were the Democratic Party primaries; whoever won the primary was sure to win the office. In 1907, Noel won the Democratic primary and was duly elected as Governor of Mississippi. He achieved numerous progressive reforms, including in education, which was segregated. These reforms included consolidation of the state's rural school districts, the establishment of agricultural high schools for whites, and the founding of a teacher's college in Hattiesburg (only white students were admitted). Noel's administration also gained passage of laws regulating child labor and establishing statewide prohibition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mississippi Governor Edmond Favor Noel )〕 After the end of his term, Noel continued to be active in state politics. In 1918, he was unsuccessful in his run for the United States Senate; since ratification and adoption of the 17th Amendment in 1913, US senators were elected for the first time by popular vote rather than by state legislators. Noel ranked third to Pat Harrison, as they both challenged incumbent populist US Senator James K. Vardaman. In 1920, Noel was elected again to the Mississippi State Senate, where he served until his death in 1927, being repeatedly re-elected. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmond Noel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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