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WILLIAMS, John Bell, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Raymond, Hinds County,
Miss., December 4, 1918; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hinds
Junior College, Raymond, Miss., in 1936, from the University of Mississippi at
Oxford in 1938, and from Jackson (Miss.) School of Law in 1940; was admitted to
the bar in 1940 and commenced practice in Raymond, Miss.; enlisted as an
aviation cadet in the United States Army, November 5, 1941; was commissioned as
a pilot July 3, 1942; retired from active service because of injuries received
in the line of duty on April 29, 1944; prosecuting attorney of Hinds County,
Miss., from May 20, 1944, to October 1, 1946; elected as a Democrat to the
Eightieth and to the ten succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3,
1947, to January 16, 1968, when he resigned; having been elected Governor of
Mississippi for the four-year term commencing on that date; practiced law in
Jackson, Miss., until he retired January 1, 1981; resident of Brandon, Miss.,
until his death there March 25, 1983; interment in Raymond Cemetery, Raymond,
Miss.
BibliographyVance, Sandra Stringer. The Congressional Career of John Bell
Williams, 1947-1967. Ph.D. dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1976.
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