Background
He was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
He was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
University of Virginia School of Law.
During his term as Governor, Longino began a campaign to attract new industry to the state and supervised the design and building of a new state capitol still in use today. Also of note, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History was created and a new penitentiary at Parchman Farm was constructed during his administration. lieutenant was Governor Longino who invited president Theodore Roosevelt to a bear hunt in the Mississippi Delta, which became later famous for coining the term teddy bear.
Longino died at age 87 and was interred at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.
