Changes

Bodron practiced law for a half century in his native Vicksburg in Warren County in western Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1948 to 1952 and in the Mississippi State Senate from 1952 to 1984. He was named Senate Finance Committee chairman in 1964 by then Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin (1913-1966). He continued as chairman until he left the Senate in 1984 after losing a bid for re-election the preceding year. For the last dozen years of his life, Bodron was a [[Lobbying|lobbyist]] for the liquor, [[tobacco]], health care, and [[insurance]] industries.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=112543461|title=Ellis Barkett Bodrin|publisher=Findagrave.com from the ''Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial Appeal''|date=February 19, 1997|accessdate=September 11, 2017}}</ref>  

Bodron practiced law for a half century in his native Vicksburg in Warren County in western Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1948 to 1952 and in the Mississippi State Senate from 1952 to 1984. He was named Senate Finance Committee chairman in 1964 by then Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin (1913-1966). He continued as chairman until he left the Senate in 1984 after losing a bid for re-election the preceding year. For the last dozen years of his life, Bodron was a [[Lobbying|lobbyist]] for the liquor, [[tobacco]], health care, and [[insurance]] industries.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=112543461|title=Ellis Barkett Bodrin|publisher=Findagrave.com from the ''Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial Appeal''|date=February 19, 1997|accessdate=September 11, 2017}}</ref>  

Bodron was the Democratic nominee in 1972 for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Mississippi's 4th congressional district. He was defeated by the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Thad Cochran]], who six years later was elected to the [[United States Senate]], in which he still serves after a heated runoff election against state Senator [[Chris McDaniel]] in 2014.

Bodron was the Democratic nominee in 1972 for the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Mississippi's 4th congressional district. He was defeated by the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Thad Cochran]], who six years later was elected to the [[United States Senate]], in which he still serves after a heated and contested runoff election against state Senator [[Chris McDaniel]] in 2014.

He died of brain cancer in the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in the capital city of [[Jackson]], Mississippi, and was survived by his wife, Jane Workman Bodron of Vicksburg; a son, Lawrence E. Bodron of Vicksburg; a daughter, Helen E. Bodron, and three sisters.<ref name=obit/>

He died of brain cancer in the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in the capital city of [[Jackson]], Mississippi, and was survived by his wife, Jane Workman Bodron of Vicksburg; a son, Lawrence E. Bodron of Vicksburg; a daughter, Helen E. Bodron, and three sisters.<ref name=obit/>

[[Category:Politicians]]

[[Category:Politicians]]

[[Category:Democrats]]

[[Category:Democrats]]

[[Category:Blind people]]

[[Category:The blind]]