William Madison 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 electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

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

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

1924 Whittington was selected in the third district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Y. Humphreys on March 4, 1925. After twelve re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1951 a total of 13 legislative periods. From 1937 to 1947 he was Chairman of the Flood Committee, 1949-1951 Member of the Committee of Public Works. 1950 renounced Whittington on another candidacy. He left Washington and worked as a lawyer in Greenwood again. There he died in August 1962.