{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jesse Speight | image = JSpeight2.jpg | jr/sr = United States Senator | state = Mississippi | party = Democrat | term = March 4, 1845{{spaced ndash}}May 1, 1847 | preceded = John Henderson | succeeded = Jefferson Davis | office2 = Member of the Mississippi Senate | term2 = 1841–1844 | state3 = North Carolina | district3 = 4th | term_start3 = March 4, 1829 | term_end3 = March 3, 1837 | preceded3 = John H. Bryan | succeeded3 = Charles B. Shepard | office4 = Member of the North Carolina Senate | term4 = 1823–1827 | office5 = Member of the North Carolina House of Commons | term5 = 1820 | birth_date = {{birth date|1795|9|22}} | birth_place = Greene County, North Carolina | death_date = {{death date and age|1847|5|1|1795|9|22}} | death_place = Columbus, Mississippi | spouse = | profession = Politician }}
'''Jesse Speight''' (September 22, 1795{{spaced ndash}}May 1, 1847) was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century.
Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1820, serving as Speaker of the House, and was a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1823 to 1827. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1828, serving from 1829 to 1837, not being a candidate for renomination in 1836.
Speight moved to Plymouth, Mississippi and was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1841 to 1844, serving as its president from 1842 to 1843.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8sGAQAAIAAJ |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1917 |publisher=Department of Archives and History |others=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |pages= |language=en}}</ref> He was elected a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1844, serving from 1845 until his death, where he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills and Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Speight died in Columbus, Mississippi on May 1, 1847, and was interred in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.
His replacement as Senator was Jefferson Davis, the future President of the Confederate States of America.
==See also== *List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)
==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|S000715}}
==External links== *{{Find a Grave|9768502}}
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