Edmond Noel
Edmond Favor Noel was an American attorney and politician who was the governor of Mississippi from 1908 to 1912. The son of a planter family, he became a member of the Democratic Party.
Edmond Favor Noel was born in 1856 on his familys cotton plantation in Holmes County, Mississippi near the city of Lexington, the third son of several children of Leland Noel. His father had become a successful cotton planter before the war. His mother was Margaret Ann Sanders, daughter of a Virginia planter. The earliest Noel ancestor in America immigrated to the Virginia Colony in the 1660s from the Netherlands, where his French Huguenot ancestor had migrated because of religious persecution in France. Edmond was named after his paternal uncle, Edmund Faver Noel, and in some records his name appears with the same spelling.
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