William M. Whittington

William Madison Whittington (born May 4, 1878 in Little Springs , Franklin County , Mississippi , † August 20, 1962 in Greenwood , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1951 he represented the third constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Whittington attended the public schools in Franklin County and then until 1898 the Mississippi College in Clinton . After studying law at the University of Mississippi at Oxford and his admission to the bar in 1899, he began to work in his new profession from 1901 in Roxie in Franklin County.

In 1904 Whittington moved to Greenwood, where he also worked as a lawyer, but also in agriculture. He became a member of the Democratic Party and was a councilor in Greenwood between 1907 and 1911. Between 1916 and 1920 he was a member of the Mississippi Senate ; In 1923 he was re-elected to this body for four years. He resigned his mandate in August 1924 because he wanted to accept his party's nomination for the US Congress . Between 1920 and 1948 Whittington was a delegate to a total of five Democratic National Conventions .

In 1924 Whittington was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third district of Mississippi , where he succeeded William Y. Humphreys on March 4, 1925 . After twelve re-elections, he was able to complete a total of 13 legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1951. From 1937 to 1947 he was chairman of the flood committee, from 1949 to 1951 a member of the committee for public works. 1950 Whittington renounced another candidacy. He left Washington and went back to Greenwood as a lawyer. He died there in August 1962.

Web links

• William M. Whittington in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William M. Whittington in the database of Find a Grave (English)