Life Span
to
Full name
William Lewis Sharkey
Place of Birth
Sumner County, TN
Burial Place
Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, MS
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
3
Family
Minerva Cage (wife) 
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Political Parties
Whig
Government
Johnson Administration (1865-69)
Governor
State legislature
State supreme court
State judge
Date Event
President Johnson appoints long-time judge William L. Sharkey as provisional governor of Mississippi
Reconstruction
How to Cite This Page: "Sharkey, William Lewis," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/44199.