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==Notable people== <!--keep list in alphabetical order by surname--> * [[Julia K. Wetherill Baker]] (1858{{ndash}}1931), writer and poet, was born in Woodville<ref name=willard1893>Willard, Frances, and Mary Livermore, eds. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Julie_Wetherill_Baker ''A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks Of Life'']. New York: Moulton, 1893, p. 48.</ref> * [[Betty Bentley Beaumont]] (1828β1892), author, merchant, cotton factor, hotel owner * [[Henry Cohen (rabbi)]], served here from 1885 to 1888 before going to [[Galveston, Texas]], where he became a nationally known community leader * [[Jefferson Davis]], President of the [[Confederate States of America]]; lived near here for a couple of years as a youth on his parents' plantation and attended Woodville Academy, before going to Kentucky to school. * [[Ronnie Edwards (politician)|Ronnie Edwards]], [[Louisiana]] politician, born in Woodville<ref>{{cite news|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=rodnette-bethley-edwards-ronnie&pid=177872524&fhid=11239|title=Rep. Rodnette Bethley "Ronnie" Edwards|newspaper=The Baton Rouge Advocate|access-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> * [[Henry Herbert Ogden]], aviator in 1924 US Army Air Services around the world flight,<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/henry-herbert-ogden/|title=This Day in Aviation, 6 Apr 1924}}</ref> * [[Will E. Keller]], businessman * [[Rudolph Matthews]], handball player * [[Edward Grady Partin]] (1924β1990), born in Woodville, he became a [[Teamsters Union]] business agent from [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]. His testimony sent [[Jimmy Hoffa]] to prison. * [[Carnot Posey]], Civil War Confederate general * [[Peter Randolph (judge)|Peter Randolph]], early 19th century Federal judge * [[Dan Reneau]], President of [[Louisiana Tech University]] * [[William Grant Still]], African-American classical composer and [[Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame]] inductee was born in Woodville on May 11, 1895. * [[Matt Tolbert]], professional baseball infielder *[[W. P. S. Ventress]] (1854β1911), Mississippi state legislator * [[George W. Wheeler]], Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1920β30) * [[Lester Young]], jazz musician and [[Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame]] inductee was born in Woodville.<ref name="Gelly">{{cite book |last=Gelly |first=Dave |title=Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young |year=2007 |publisher=Equinox |isbn=978-1-84553-058-7 |page=1 }}</ref> * [[William Henry Young (politician)|William Henry Young]], [[Wisconsin]] politician, born in Woodville
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