William M. Colmer

William Meyers Colmer ( born February 11, 1890 in Moss Point, Mississippi; † 9 September 1980 in Pascagoula, Mississippi ) was an American politician and represented the state of Mississippi as a representative in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Meyers Colmer was born on February 11, 1890 in Moss Point, Mississippi, where he attended college that Millsaps. During the First World War he served in the army. After the war, Colmer 1921, Mississippi elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson County and 1928 for District Attorney. Colmer 1932 was elected as a Democrat for the 6th Mississippi District in the U.S. House of Representatives. After that, he was still re-elected nineteen more times. His district was renamed after the 1960 Census fifth in as Mississippi due to declining population lost a congress seat.

Originally elected as a supporter of the New Deal, Colmer was with increasing years more and more conservative, especially when the Democrats against civil rights were benevolent. According to the " Brown v. Board of Education" - judgment participated Colmer, 1956 to the Constitution of the Southern Manifesto, a letter which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions. In addition, he was a proponent of Richard Nixon for the presidency in 1960, 1968 and 1972, as well as Barry Goldwater in 1964. Spite of its strong resistance to racial integration, he was the chairman of the Rules Committee 1967-1973.

After that Colmer decided not to run again in 1972 for re-election. He told his administrative assistant Trent Lott as his successor, though Lott was a Republican. Colmer served longer in both conferences, as otherwise one before him in Mississippi history, with one exception, Jamie Whitten, who was 54 years in Congress.

William Meyers Colmer died on September 9, 1980 at his estate in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He was interred in the Machpelah Cemetery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

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