Fielding Lewis Wright was an American politician who served as the 19th Lieutenant Governor and 49th and 50th Governor of Mississippi. During the 1948 presidential election he served as the vice presidential nominee of the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) alongside presidential nominee Strom Thurmond. During his political career he fought to maintain racial segregation,fought with President Harry S. Truman over civil rights legislation,and held other racist views.
Warren Robinson Austin was an American politician and diplomat who served as United States Senator from Vermont and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
William Frederick Lemke was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. He was also the Union Party's presidential candidate in the 1936 presidential election.
In American politics,a conservative Democrat is a member of the Democratic Party with conservative political views,or with views that are conservative compared to the positions taken by other members of the Democratic Party. Traditionally,conservative Democrats have been elected to office from the Southern states,rural areas,the Rust Belt,and the Midwest. In 2019,the Pew Research Center found that 14% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters identify as conservative or very conservative,38% identify as moderate,and 47% identify as liberal or very liberal.
William Homer Thornberry was an American politician and judge. He served as the United States representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1949 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was a judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas,and he was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1965 to 1978.
The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS),founded in 1904,is the oldest non-partisan professional organization of public officials in the United States,composed of the secretaries of state of U.S. states and territories. Currently,all secretaries of state,including Washington D.C.,Puerto Rico,the U.S. Virgin Islands,and Guam) are members of NASS.
Willard Robertson was an American actor and writer. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels,Texas,and died in Hollywood,California.
Eric Charles Clark is an American politician and academic who served as the Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1996 to 2008.
Theodorus Hendrikus "Theo" Bot was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist.
DeVan "Van" Dallas was an American politician in the state of Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1964 to 1976. Dallas was an automobile and farm equipment dealer. He attended Troy Grammar School and Pontotoc High School. Dallas served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946,partaking in World War II. From 1972 to 1976,he sat on the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission,among other various boards.
Carl Norris Craig was an American politician who served as the state auditor of Mississippi from 1936 to 1940 and from 1948 to 1952. He also served as the Mississippi state tax collector from 1940 to 1948. As state auditor,he oversaw a widely publicized audit of the Mississippi land commission office,eventually finding that the state land commissioner had misappropriated $27,000 in state funds. His first term as state tax collector largely centered around an unsuccessful series of lawsuits against four road construction companies as well as individual highway contractors,while his second term as state tax collector was focused almost entirely on enforcement of the newly passed "black market tax" on illegal liquor.
Earl Stribling Richardson was a Democratic Mississippi lawyer and politician from Neshoba County. He represented the state's 19th district in the Mississippi State Senate from 1916 to 1920 and from 1932 to 1936,and the 17th district from 1940 to his death in 1943. He also represented Neshoba County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940.
