Jasper Felix Guynes

Jasper Felix Guynes was born on February 21, 1875, near Hazlehurst, in Copiah County, Mississippi.[1] He was the son of Mississippi state legislator Albert Brown Guynes and Emma Jane (Ramsey) Guynes.[1] Jasper graduated from the University of Mississippi with a B. A. in 1898.[1] Then, he graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School with a L.L.B. in 1902.[1] After the death of Mississippi State Senator E. A. Rowan in 1912, Guynes won the election to fill in for the vacancy in the 11th district, as a Democrat.[1][2] He was sworn in during a special legislature session on June 10, 1913.[2] After his term ended, on February 1, 1916, he was appointed Mississippi Circuit Court Judge of the Fourteenth District.[1] He was elected Circuit Court Judge of the same district in 1934, and served in that position until 1949.[3][4] He then was a Chancellor in one of Mississippi's chancery courts from 1950 to his death.[3] He died after a short illness on August 15, 1961, and was buried in the Hazlehurst New Cemetery.[5][3]