Wall Doxey

Wall Doxey ( born August 8, 1892 in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi; † March 2, 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an American politician who represented the state of Mississippi in both chambers of Congress.

After the public school visit Doxey took a degree at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. There he graduated in 1913; the following year he received his law degree and was admitted to the Bar Association. He worked as a lawyer in his hometown of Holly Springs. Doxey in 1915 was appointed prosecutor of Marshall County, where he stayed until 1923. In that year he moved up to the district attorney for the third judicial district of Mississippi.

In 1929 he moved into politics. Doxey was chosen for the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and remained there until 1941. The elections reach each sovereign, because he had a solid base among the rural population of his state, for which he always engaged in parliament. He resigned to become U.S. Senator. In the by-election to the seat of the late Pat Harrison, he carried the day; the term of office ended in 1943, however, after he had failed in the Democratic primary to James Eastland.

Wall Doxey but was still in the Senate operates. On 1 February 1943 he took on the office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms and was therefore a member of the Capitol Police Board. He was the only senator who has ever held the position. In January 1947, Doxey retired at his own request as Senate Sergeant from after the Republicans had won control of the Senate. Until the end, he acted as hearing examiner for the Department of Agriculture, before he returned to Holly Springs, even briefly worked as a lawyer in 1948 and went into retirement.

The Wall Doxey State Park, a state park in Mississippi, was named after the politician died in 1962.