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- ↑ Elkins, Ashley (March 1, 2005). "Brown tapped as new House Education chairman". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal . Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Mississippi - Summary Vote Results". Associated Press. August 5, 2015. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Cecil Brown Won't Run Again as Mississippi Utility Regulator". Jackson Free Press . Associated Press. December 11, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ↑ Pittman, Ashton. "A New Dynamic: Shanda Yates' Surprise Victory". Jackson Free Press. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
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