Talk:John C. Kyle

Confusion between two Mississippi politicians named John Kyle

I'm sorting out on this talk page the relationship between two (perhaps related) John Kyles:

• John W. Kyle
• John Curtis Kyle

The article on the topic of John Curtis Kyle, currently John Kyle, has implied since '05 Nov that they are the same person, which is possible but not likely. The 1851-1913 one's entry on LoPbN was changed earlier in '06 July from the initial W to the name Curtis.

• JWK Evidence

• Bibliography on Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs and Reconstruction in Panola County between 1868-1870 cite John W. Kyle, Reconstruction in Panola County, Mississippi Historical Society Publications, vol 13 (University, Mississippi, 1913), pp. 9-98.
• Chi Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at the University of Mississippi says "John W. Kyle for whom the John W. Kyle state park located between Oxford and Batesville is named is an Ole Miss Deke."
• Baxter Hall History says

  The original dedication ceremony for all four of the dorms took place in November 1949 in the courtyard between the dormitories. Dean of Men R. Malcolm Guess served as chairman of the Dormitory Dedication Committee. Senator John W. Kyle of Sardis spoke about Drane Lester...

(Googling

"Senator John W. Kyle " -wikipedia

has only that one hit and

"Sen John W. Kyle " -wikipedia

has none. But see "Judge Kyle was from Sardis, a long time state senator" in Coleman, the next source.)

• Oral history with the Honorable J. P. Coleman has, re Coleman being on "the Supreme Court of Mississippi" and Governor Fielding Wright

  ... Well, I hadn't been down there but two months, sat right by Judge Gus Smith all one day hearing cases argued and went back to the Capitol the next morning and they said, "Did you hear? Judge Smith died last night."

  Well, Fielding Wright wanted to appoint the Attorney General to his place, Judge Kyle, who was a Rhodes Scholar but no politician....

and

• I was told that Judge Smith had died in his sleep that night. That's what caused the big shift around. Governor Wright wanted to appoint the Attorney General, the Honorable John W. Kyle, to Judge Smith's place, Northern District.

  Judge Kyle was from Sardis, a long time state senator, Rhodes Scholar, a very learned, scholarly fellow, but he was facing a campaign for election the very next year. He had been appointed to succeed Greek Rice as Attorney General when General Rice died. ...

  So, on one Monday morning, the twenty-third day of October, 1950, Judge Kyle was sworn into the Supreme Court.

  ...that's the story of how, in one calendar year, I was a state Circuit Judge, a Supreme Court Commissioner and Attorney General of the state.

• JCK Evidence
  • The Political Graveyard - Panola County - Mississippi has

    John Curtis Kyle (1851-1913) — also known as John C. Kyle — of Sardis, Panola County, Miss. Born near Sardis, Panola County, Miss., July 17, 1851. Democrat. Member of Mississippi state senate, 1881; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 2nd District, 1891-97. Died July 6, 1913. Interment at Rosehill Cemetery.

  • KYLE, John Curtis, (1851 - 1913) (Bio. Dir'y from & of US Congress) has

    KYLE, John Curtis, (1851 - 1913)

    KYLE, John Curtis, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Sardis, Panola County, Miss., July 17, 1851; attended Bethel College, Tennessee, and was graduated from the Cumberland University Law School in 1874; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Sardis; mayor of Sardis 1879-1881; member of the State senate 1881-1885; member of the Mississippi Railroad Commission 1886-1890; chairman of the Democratic State executive committee in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking in Sardis; retired from active business pursuits in 1912; died in Sardis, Miss., July 6, 1913; interment in Rosehill Cemetery.

That's enough to satisfy me that i can remove the state-park error, and create a second article and a Dab, without creating new errors.
--Jerzy•t 16:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 15 July 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move pages. (non-admin closure) — YoungForever^(talk) 19:17, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

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• John Kyle → John C. Kyle
• John Kyle (disambiguation) → John Kyle

– An obscure late-19th-century figure who served six years in Congress and has rated a ten-sentence stub is hardly suitable as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of a five-man disambiguation page that did not even bother to single him out in a full sentence at the top. The proposed middle initial is based upon his obituary which lists him as "John C." and his Congressional bio-listing as "John Curtis". One of the remaining dab page entries is for a same-named politician from the same state who has an entry under the header John W. Kyle and a longtime Wikipedian who created this dab page 14 years ago, in July 2006, devoted time and space above (Talk:John Kyle#Confusion between two Mississippi politicians named John Kyle), to finding distinction between them. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

• Support per nominator's reasoning. Cerebral726 (talk) 19:08, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 17:28, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom and above. Accesscrawl (talk) 10:55, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.