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ST.DOC. 1 6 7 SENATETELEPHONE DIRECTORY Lieutenant Governor -------------------------------- 354-6788 Senators :------------------------- _______________354-6790 Appropriations Committee1ttee -------------------------------------- 354-6365 CalendarCleark _:::::::::::~-=:::~~::::::::::::::=:=:::::=-~~~;!~! £ting Office ___ _ __________ _ -------------------------------- 354-7128 FINANCEo --------------------------------------- 354-6761 Journal Clerk & Bookkeeper _________354-6790 or 948-5148 Judiciary Committee ____ _______________________________________ 354-6017 Mag Card Operators _______________________________________354-6846 Medical Unit -------------------------------------------------- 354-7229 Printing Operators ---------------------------------------------- 354-6019 Printing Secretary --------------------------------------------------354-6026 Receptionist ------------------------------------------------- ------ 354-6790 Stenographic Pool ___- --------------------- 354-6790 or 948-4027 HOUSE TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Speaker ------------------------------------------------------ 354-6152 House Members (Through Switchboard) 948-7321 Clerk _ 354-6156 Appropriations Committee __________________ 354-6174 Bookkeeper ____________________________________________________354-6182 County Affairs Committee ________________________________ 354-7140 Docket Room -------------------------------------------------354-6124 Drafting Office _____________________________________________ 354-7292 Education Committee 354-6184 Highway Committee 354-6178 Judiciary Committee 354-6184 Management Committee 354-6184 Medical Unit - -------- ---------------------- 354-7229 Printing Room 354-6019, 354-6025 Receptionist ------------------------- ------------ 354-7448 Rules Committee _ _ _____________________354-7141, 354-7146 Ways and Means Committee ---------------------------- 354-6176 3 2279 00173 7453 .. MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE 1971 HANDBOOK ELECTED STATE OFFICIALS Governor ..... John Bell Williams Lieutenant Governor ............... Charles L. Sullivan Secretary of State ...................... Heber Ladner Attorney General ...................... A. F. Summer State Treasurer ....... : . .. Evelyn Gandy Superintendent of Education .......... Garvin Johnston Auditor of Public Accounts ...... W. H. (Hamp) King Land Commissioner ...................... Watt Carter Commissioner of Agriculture .......... Jim Buck Ross Insurance Commissioner . Walter Dell Davis Public Service Commissioners: First District ................ Nonnan A. Johnson, Jr. Second District ...... ...... W. E. (Bucky) Moore Third District ....................... D. W. Snyder State Highway Commissioners: First District Sam Waggoner Second District .............. W. H. (Shag) Pyron Third District .................... Herschel Jumper Supreme Court Clerk ... ........... Julia H. Kendrick 2 1971 HANDBOOK SENATORS By Districts and Counties 1st-DeSoto and Tate B. G. Perry, P. 0. Box 121, Hom Lake, 38637 2nd-Lafayette and Marshall Fred M. Belk, Jr., 348 Van Dom Ave., Holly Springs, 38635 3rd-Benton, Pontotoc and Union James E. Bost, Route 1, Ecru 38841 4th-Alcorn and Tippah Theodore Smith, P. O. Box 1309, Corinth, 38834 5th--Itawamba, Prentiss and Tishomingo Cecil Lamar Sumners, 311 South Fulton St., Iuka, 38852 6th-Lee Perrin H. Purvis, P. 0. Box 791, Tupelo, 38801 7th--Quitman and Tunica Jack Tucker, P. 0. Box 826, Tunica, 38676 8th--Coahoma James E. Molpus, P. 0. Box 176, Clarksdale, 38614 9th-Panola and Yalobusha William E. Corr, Jr., P. 0. Box 450, Sardis, 38666 10th-Grenada and Tallahatchie Donald B. Strider, R.F.D. 2, Charleston, 38921 11th-Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay and Monroe Post 1: Mrs. Barbara Yancy, Bruce, 38915 Post 2: A. J. Foster, P. O. Box 255, Aberdeen, 39730 12th--Lowndes William G. Burgin, Jr., 516 Second Avenue North, Columbus, 39701 13th-Noxubee and Oktibbeha John P. Moore, P. 0. Box 414, Starkville, 39759 14th-Choctaw, Webster and Winston Ebb Horton, R. F. D., 6 Box 328, Louisville 39339 15th-Attala, Carroll and Montgomery Amie Watson, P. 0. Box 1, North Carrollton, 38947 16th-Bolivar and Washington Post 1: William J. Caraway, 105 California Ave., Leland, 38756 Post 2: Wm. B. Alexander, 517 Fayette Davis, Cleveland, 38732 Post 3: Willard L. Mcllwain, P. 0. Box 558, Greenville, 38701 MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE 3 l 7th--Sunflower Robert L. Crook, P. O. Box 85, Ruleville, 38771 18th-Leflore Corbet Lee Patridge, P. O. Box 347, Schlater, 38952 19th---Holmes and Humphreys Ollie Mohamed, 105 Oak Street, Belzoni, 39038 20th-Issaquena, Sharkey and Yazoo Herman B. DeCell, P. 0. Box 960, Yazoo City, 39194 21st-Warren Ellis Bodron, Room 708, First National Bank Bldg., Vicks­ burg, 39180 22nd-Madison, Rankin and Scott Post 1: Roy C. Perdue, P. O. Box 6011, Jackson, 39208 Post 2: George Dan Martin, P. 0. Box 9, Brandon, 39042 23rd-Leak andNeshoba TommyN. Brooks, N. R.F.D. 3, Box 14A, Carthage, 39051 24th--Clarke, Kemper, Lauderdale and Newton Post 1: Fred M. Rogers, 1823 Thirty-Fourth St., Meridian, 39301 Post 2: Mrs. Gordon (Berta Lee) White, R.F.D., 1, Bailey, 39320 ' Post 3: Joseph M. Mosby, P. 0. Box 4253, Meridian, 39301 25th-Covington, Jasper and Smith Thomas W. ("Buddy") Rogers, Raleigh, 39153 26th-Jeff Davis, Lawrence and Simpson Jack Pace, P. 0. Box 277, Magee, 39111 27th-Hinds Post 1: Hayden Campbell, P. 0. Box 142, Jackson, 39205 Post 2: Charles B. Henley, P. O. Box 326, Jackson, 39205 Post 3: William E. (Bill) McKinley, 418 Yazoo St., Jackson, 39201 Post 4: James Arden Barnett, 710 E. Leake St., Clinton, 39056 Post 5: Mrs. Jean D. Muirhead, 1344 Dunleith Place, Jackson 39204 28th--Claiborne and Copiah Tom Douglas, P. O. Box 431, Hazlehurst, 39083 29th-Franklin, Jefferson and Lincoln John R. Scott, McCall Creek, 39647 30th-Adams Marion Smith, P. O. Box 1307, Natchez, 39120 4 1971 HANDBOOK 31st-Amite, Pike, Walthall and Wilkinson Post 1: R. B. Reeves, P. 0. Box 998, McComb, 39648 Post .2: John W. Powell, R.F.D. 2, Box 153, Liberty, 39645 32nd-Forrest, Lamar and Marion Post 1: Edwin Lloyd Pittman, P. 0. Box 1445, Hattiesburg, 39401 Post 2: Quin Emerson Stringer, R.F.D. 1, Box 37, Colum­ bia, 39429 33rd-Jones and Wayne Post 1: E. K. 'Collins, P. 0. Box 732, Laurel, 39440 Post .2: W. Vol Jones, Jr., 610 Azalea Dr., Waynesboro, 39367 34th-Hancock, Pearl River and Stone Martin T. Smith, P. 0. Box 393, Poplarville, 39470 35th-Harrison Post 1: Tommy Munro, P. O. Box 275, Biloxi, 39533 Post .2: Nap L. Cassibry, 910 Wanda Place, Gulfport, 39501 Post 3: Ben H. Stone, P. 0. Drawer H, Gulfport, 39501 36th-George, Greene, Jackson and Perry Post 1: George Cecil McLeod, Leakesville, 39451 Post 2: Kenneth B. Robertson, P. 0. Box 1445, Pascagoula, 39567 SENATE OFFICIALS Hugh A. Barkley .. Secretary Bonner Wayne Long Sergeant-at-Arms C MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE 5 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF SENATORS 1968 -1972 PRESIDING OFFICER SULLIVAN, CHARLES L., Lieutenant-Governor, Clarksdale, 38614. Born August 20 1924, at New Orleans, Louisiana. Attorney; Baptist; Mason; Lions Club; American Legion; Former Municipal Judge of Clarksdale; Former District Attorney 11th Judicial District. Married. SENATORS ALEXANDER, WILLIAM B. (BILL), 517 Fayette Davis, Cleveland, 38732. 16th: Bolivar, Washington, Post 2, Born December 23, 1921, at Boyle, Miss. Lawyer; Baptist; Mason; Shriner; Exchange Club; Bolivar County, Mississippi and American Bar Associations. Married, Senate 1961-1968. BARNETT, JAMES ARDEN, 710 E. Leake St., Clinton, 39056. 27th: Hinds, Post 4. Born August 4, 1924, at Jackson, Miss. Lawyer; Baptist; Pi Kappa Alpha; Clinton Lions Club; VFW; American Legion; Sons of Confederate Veterans; Hinds County, Mississippi and American Bar Associations. Married, House 1964-1968. BELK, FRED McKINNEY, JR. (FRED M.), 348 Van Dorn Ave., Holly Springs, 38635. 2nd: Marshall, Lafayette. Born August 20, 1937, at Memphis, Tenn. Attorney; Methodist; Kappa Sigma; Ro­ tary; Jaycees; Marshall Connty, Mississippi and American Bar As­ sociations. Married. 1 BODRON, ELLIS BARKETT (ELLIS), Room 708, First National Bank Building, Vicksburg, 39180. 21st: Warren, Born October 25, 1923, at Vicksburg, Miss. Lawyer; Warren County, Mississippi and American Bar Associations; Past Member Mississippi Board of Bar Commissioners; President, Warren County Bar Association 1963-1964; Pi Kappa Alpha; Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Lions Club. Married, · Hciuse 1948-1952; Senate 1952-1968. BOST, JAMES EWELL (JIM), Route 1, Ecru 38841, 145 W. Marion St., Pontotoc 38863. 3rd: Benton, Pontotoc, Union. Born March 12, 1928, at Pontotoc, Miss. Attorney; Methodist; Mason; Shriner; Order of Eastern Star; Lions Club ; Pontotoc County, Mississippi and American Bar Associations. Married. 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