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He was the city commissioner of Jackson, Mississippi from 1973 to 1977, under mayor Russell C. Davis. [5] [11] In 1973, he became the first Republican to serve on the Jackson City Council. [11] In 1977 and 1981, as a Republican, he ran for mayor against Democrat Dale Danks , but lost.
He had suffered a cardiac arrest at his Jackson home. He died shortly after midnight on Thursday, May 7, 2009, less than two days after losing the election. His wife, Dr. Ellen Melton, was at his side. He died at St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson, MS. References
In January 2000, they gave US$100 million to the State of Mississippi to create The Barksdale Reading Institute, a joint venture with the Mississippi Department of Education and the state's public universities. His wife, Sally Barksdale, died of cancer in 2003. He has three children and five grandchildren.
Criminal penalty. Life without parole. Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [2]
Chokwe Lumumba. Chokwe Lumumba ( / ˈʃoʊ.kweɪ.lʌˈmuːm.bɑː /; August 2, 1947 – February 25, 2014) was an American attorney, activist, and politician, who was affiliated with the black separatist organization Republic of New Afrika and served as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi.
Ben Domenech (born 1981), conservative writer and blogger ( Jackson) David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), historian ( Goodman) Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton) (1921–2012), novelist ( Greenville) [67] Eliza Ann Dupuy (c. 1814 – 1880), first woman of Mississippi to earn her living as a writer.