HAMMETT, William Henry, a Representative from Mississippi; born March 25, 1799, in Don Manway, County Cork, Ireland; studied theology; chaplain of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1832-1834 and of the State house of delegates; moved to Princeton, Miss.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); died July 9, 1861, in Washington County, Mississippi.