Brad Dye

Brad Dye (born December 20, 1933 in Charleston , Tallahatchie County , Mississippi , † July 1, 2018 in Ridgeland , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1980 and 1992 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Mississippi.

Career

Brad Dye studied economics at the University of Mississippi until 1957 . After completing a law degree at the same university, he was admitted to the bar in 1959. He was politically active from an early age. He was a Page in the US House of Representatives and worked in the 1950s for the future Governor Paul B. Johnson . He became a member of the Democratic Party and sat in both the House of Representatives and the Mississippi Senate . In the meantime, he also worked as an attorney for the Legal Committee of the US Senate in the 1960s . He was then a member of the Workman's Compensation Commission . Between 1972 and 1976 he was State Treasurer Treasury Secretary of Mississippi.

In 1979 Dye was elected lieutenant governor alongside William Winter . He held this office after two re-elections between 1980 and 1992. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. From 1984 to 1988 he served under Governor William Allain and from 1988 under Governor Ray Mabus . In 1986 there was a hearing on the powers of the lieutenant governor, which Dye's administration of office found to be constitutional. In September 2010 he was awarded the Mississippi Medal of Service . He was the only lieutenant governor of Mississippi who could serve three consecutive terms. Politically, he no longer appeared after his resignation from the office of Vice-Governor. He also attended a Democratic National Convention as a delegate .

Web links

• Short biography
• Civil Rights Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dye, Longtime Mississippi Lieutenant Governor, Dies at 84. In: usnews.com. July 1, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .