Editing Hiram Runnels (section)

== Personality ==
The son of a man who "would fire up and fight anybody and at any time," Runnels's personality reflected the rough-hewn violence of his frontier upbringing.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rothman |first=Joshua D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820011226 |title=Flush times and fever dreams : a story of capitalism and slavery in the age of Jackson |date=2012 |isbn=978-0-8203-4466-9 |location=Athens |oclc=820011226}}</ref> Described as excitable and volatile, his narrow defeat in the 1835 Mississippi gubernatorial race was partially attributed to an emotional outburst against one of his opponents during which he used some very harsh and unparliamentary language.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hiram G. Runnels, Ninth Governor of Mississippi: 1833-1835 - 2003-12 |url=https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/hiram-g-runnels-ninth-governor-of-mississippi-1833-1835 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov}}</ref>