Tuck speaking at Mississippi Statehood Day event
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck is speaking Monday at celebration marking Mississippi’s 195th anniversary as a state.
The Statehood Day event begins at noon in the House chamber of the Old Capitol Museum in downtown Jackson.
The Mississippi Territory was organized in 1798 and encompassed both modern-day Mississippi and modern-day Alabama.
Mississippi, in its current configuration, was admitted as the 20th state on Dec. 10, 1817.
It became the second state to secede from the Union on Jan. 9, 1861, three months before the Civil War started.
Tuck was lieutenant governor from early 2000 to early 2008. She’s now vice president for campus services at her alma mater, Mississippi State University.
