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Biography of
Edmond Favor
Noel
Governor from Holmes County
Many thanks to Marjorie Norris
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Edmond Favor Noel (1856-1927) was born
on his family’s plantation near Lexington, Holmes County,
Mississippi on March 4, 1856. He was the son of Leland Noel and
Margaret A. (Sanders) Noel. He was a Democrat and a lawyer. He
married Alice Tye Neilson. He served as a district attorney
and as a member of the Mississippi state house of representatives
from 1881 to 1882 and as a member of the Mississippi state senate
from 1895 to1903 and 1920 to 1927. As a state senator, he was
responsible for authoring the state’s primary election
law. Noel served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War. He was elected Governor of
Mississippi, and served from 1908 to 1912. He was the first
chairman of the first conference of governors that was held in
1908. As governor, he was responsible for many educational
reforms, such as the establishing of rural agricultural high
schools that later served as the basis for the states junior
college system. Other reforms during his term as governor
included a child labor law, the establishing of a state charity
hospital, and a statewide prohibition law. Noel was a
Baptist and a member of the Freemasons. He died July 30,
1927 during his second term in the senate and was buried at Odd
Fellows Cemetery in Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi
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