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To pursue his [[Ph.D.]], Shoalmire entered [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville]],  [[Mississippi]]. In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, the Louisiana [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator for Bienville and Red River parishes. As a legislator, Twitchell pushed for the establishment of Red River Parish and brought many of his northern relatives to live there, mostly as [[Farmers|planters]].<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/4/bios.php?input=31224|author=Jacob G. Ullery, compiler|title=''Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, Part III''|page=160|publisher=Brattleboro, [[Vermont]]: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894|accessdate=July 5, 2010}}</ref> In 1876, his Redeemer ([[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]) detractors fired six shots at him, and he lost the use of both arms below the elbows. He played dead and avoided even more bullets. Twitchell then left Louisiana and spent his later years as a diplomat in Kingston, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref name=history/>

To pursue his [[Ph.D.]], Shoalmire entered [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville]],  [[Mississippi]]. In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, the Louisiana [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator for Bienville and Red River parishes. As a legislator, Twitchell pushed for the establishment of Red River Parish and brought many of his northern relatives to live there, mostly as [[Farmers|planters]].<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/4/bios.php?input=31224|author=Jacob G. Ullery, compiler|title=''Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, Part III''|page=160|publisher=Brattleboro, [[Vermont]]: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894|accessdate=July 5, 2010}}</ref> In 1876, his Redeemer ([[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]) detractors fired six shots at him, and he lost the use of both arms below the elbows. He played dead and avoided even more bullets. Twitchell then left Louisiana and spent his later years as a diplomat in Kingston, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref name=history/>

Shoalmire's dissertation stemmed from his earlier study of Reconstruction in Red River Parish.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire, ''Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905," unpublished [[dissertation]], [[Mississippi State University]] at Starkville, [[Mississippi]], 1969</ref> In writing his original study on Red River Parish, Shoalmire located the Marshall Twitchell papers in the attic of a Twitchell grandson in Burlington, [[Vermont]], and brought the materials to Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vATekRjyYicC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=Jimmy+G.+Shoalmire&source=bl&ots=mgRT_GEw-U&sig=w7GVZoDtM6aCethjel7dLxnFpkw&hl=en&ei=n9VBTKfUKYO78gafv-QL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Jimmy%20G.%20Shoalmire&f=false|title=Ted Tunnell, "Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877'', p. 182|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> The Twitchell papers were used by Ted Tunnel of Virginia Commonwealth University in [[Richmond]], for his 2001 publication, ''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807130230|title=''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction''|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press, 2001|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>​

Shoalmire's dissertation stemmed from his earlier study of Reconstruction in Red River Parish.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire, ''Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905," unpublished [[dissertation]], [[Mississippi State University]] at Starkville, [[Mississippi]], 1969</ref> In writing his original study on Red River Parish, Shoalmire located the Marshall Twitchell papers in the attic of a Twitchell grandson in Burlington, [[Vermont]], and brought the materials to Prescott Memorial Library at Louisiana Tech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vATekRjyYicC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=Jimmy+G.+Shoalmire&source=bl&ots=mgRT_GEw-U&sig=w7GVZoDtM6aCethjel7dLxnFpkw&hl=en&ei=n9VBTKfUKYO78gafv-QL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Jimmy%20G.%20Shoalmire&f=false|title=Ted Tunnell, "Crucible of Reconstruction: War, Radicalism, and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877'', p. 182|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> The Twitchell papers were used by Ted Tunnel of Virginia Commonwealth University in [[Richmond]], for his 2001 publication, ''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807130230|title=''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction''|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press, 2001|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref>​

In 1973, Shoalmire co-authored with his MSU colleague, Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership.''Originally a poor farmboy from [[Tennessee]], Cobb became a southern agricultural publisher and philanthropist. From 1933 to 1937, Cobb was a director of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], a [[New Deal]] agency which supervised the plowing under of [[cotton]] fields to reduce farm output in hopes of reversing the lagging prices paid to farmers. In the preparation of their book, Shoalmire and Scott used papers from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] at Iowa City.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership,'' ([[Jackson]], Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973).</ref>​

In 1973, Shoalmire co-authored with his MSU colleague, Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership.''Originally a poor farmboy from [[Tennessee]], Cully Alton Cobb, Sr. (1884-1975), became a southern agricultural publisher and philanthropist. From 1933 to 1937, Cobb was a director of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], a [[New Deal]] agency which supervised the plowing under of [[cotton]] fields to reduce farm output in hopes of reversing the lagging prices paid to farmers. In the preparation of their book, Shoalmire and Scott used papers from the [[Henry A. Wallace]] Collection at the [[University of Iowa]] at Iowa City.<ref>Jimmy G. Shoalmire and Roy Vernon Scott, ''The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership'' ([[Jackson]], Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973).</ref>​

Shoalmire became associate professor of history at MSU and head of Special Collections at the Mitchell Memorial Library there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=14478610|author=John F. Marszalek|title=''Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press''|publisher=Kent, [[Ohio]]: [[Kent State University]] Press|date=1999|page=xiv|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> As the head of Special Collections, he was also the [[curator]] of the archives of [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Stennis]]. In that capacity, he conducted oral history interviews with personal friends, staff, senatorial colleagues, and other observers of Stennis' long career in politics. Among the interviewees was Stennis' son, John Hampton Stennis, a [[Jackson]] attorney who lost his 1978 bid for the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref>John C. Stennis Oral History Collection, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.</ref>

Shoalmire became associate professor of history at MSU and head of Special Collections at the Mitchell Memorial Library there.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=14478610|author=John F. Marszalek|title=''Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press''|publisher=Kent, [[Ohio]]: [[Kent State University]] Press|date=1999|page=xiv|accessdate=July 17, 2010}}</ref> As the head of Special Collections, he was also the [[curator]] of the archives of [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Stennis]]. In that capacity, he conducted oral history interviews with personal friends, staff, senatorial colleagues, and other observers of Stennis' long career in politics. Among the interviewees was Stennis' son, John Hampton Stennis, a [[Jackson]] attorney who lost his 1978 bid for the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref>John C. Stennis Oral History Collection, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.</ref>

Shoalmire left MSU in 1979 to work on Stennis' staff in [[Washington, D.C.]] Within a year, he became a [[lobbyist]], serving as director of legislative affairs for Gould, Inc., an electronics and defense weapons firm in Washington.<ref name=jgsobit>"Shreveport native dies in Virginia," ''The Shreveport Times,'' August 2, 1982.</ref><ref name=statement>Statement of Carol Ann Shoalmire, Ruston, Louisiana, July 5, 2010</ref>​

Shoalmire left MSU in 1979 to work on Stennis' staff in [[Washington, D.C.]] Within a year, he became a [[lobbyist]], serving as director of legislative affairs for Gould, Inc., an electronics and defense weapons firm in Washington.<ref name=jgsobit>"Shreveport native dies in Virginia," ''The Shreveport Times,'' August 2, 1982.</ref><ref name=statement>Statement of Carol Ann Shoalmire, Ruston, Louisiana, July 5, 2010.</ref>​

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==Early death and family==

==Early death and family==

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