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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Seelig Bartel "Bushie" Wise
| office=[[Mississippi]] State Senator<br>for Coahoma, Tunica, and Quitman counties
| term_start=1964
| term_end=1968
| preceded=
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| birth_date=August 7, 1913
| birth_place=
| death_place=[[Jackson]], Hinds County, Mississippi
| death_date=September 4, 2004 (aged 91)
| resting_place=
| residence=(1) Jonestown, Coahoma County, Mississippi<br>
(2) Jackson, Mississippi
| occupation=[[Cotton]] and [[soybean]] [[farmer]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| spouse=(1) Miriam Swann Wise<br>
(2) Melba Taylor Swift Wise
| children=Daniel Reese Wise, Sr.<br>
Three grandchildren
|alma_mater=[[Mississippi State University]] (Starkville)
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
|rank=[[Captain]]}}
'''Seelig Bartel Wise''', sometimes known as '''Bushie Wise''' (August 7, 1913 – September 4, 2004), was a [[cotton]] and [[soybean]] [[farmer]] and [[business]]man from Clarksdale, [[Mississippi]], who was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to serve in the state Senate since [[Reconstruction]].
==Background==
Wise was a [[Captain]] in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]]. He graduated from the Chinese Language School in Berkeley, [[California]], and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in [[Agriculture]] from [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville. For a time, he was a special agent for the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref name=obit />
His family farm, owned with his brothers, was located at Jonestown in Coahoma County near Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressregister.com/article_b087cf45-a5b0-5c9e-b798-4dd9cf620d9f.html|title=Seelig Bartel "Bushie" Wise|date=September 7, 2004|publisher=''The Clarksdale Press Register''|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
Wise was twice married, first, to Miriam Swann and then after her death to Melba Taylor Swift. He had one son, Daniel Reese Wise, Sr., a 1968 graduate of Coahoma County High School and a former resident of Hattiesburg who was living in [[Costa Rica]] at the time of his father's death. He had three grandchildren. Wise was a [[Southern Baptist]]. He died at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in the capital city of [[Jackson]].<ref name=obit/>
==Political life==
In 1963, Wise ran for the state Senate seat encompassing Coahoma, Tunica, and Quitman counties<ref name=obit/> on the Republican ticket headed by [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Rubel Phillips]] of Corinth in Alcorn County and Jackson, Mississippi, and the candidate for lieutenant governor, [[Stanford Morse]], an outgoing state senator and lawyer from Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[Ross Barnett]] was term-limited in the 1963 election. While Phillips and Morse were defeated by the Democrats Paul Burney Johnson, Jr., and Carroll Gartin, respectively, Wise won his race. Buoyed by the [[Barry Goldwater]] landslide in Mississippi in 1964, Wise ran unsuccessfully in 1966 against the veteran Democrat Jamie L. Whitten for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district seat. In 1967, though Paul Johnson was ineligible to seek reelection as governor, a provision that has since been changed, Rubel Phillips again carried the Republican nomination for governor, but he was handily defeated by the Democrat U.S. Representative John Bell Williams of Mississippi's 3rd congressional district. By this time, [[Clarke Reed]] of Greenville had replaced the original chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, [[Wirt Yerger]], an insurance agent in Jackson. Wise lost his Senate seat after a single term, as did two freshmen Republican members of the state House of Representatives, [[Lewis McAllister|Lewis Leslie McAllister, Jr.]], a businessman from Meridian and later, Tuscaloosa, [[Alabama]], and [[Charles K. Pringle]], a lawyer from Biloxi.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 240, 242, 262</ref>
In 1969, the administration of U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] named Wise the state director of the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]. He also headed the Mississippi office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Soil Conservation Service.<ref name=obit/>
==Later years==
Wise served on the board of directors of the Mississippi Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and was the board president of the Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, a 195-bed hospital in Clarksdale. He co-founded the Mississippi Hospital Association of Governing Boards.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wise, Seelig}}
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category: Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
| name=Seelig Bartel "Bushie" Wise
| office=[[Mississippi]] State Senator<br>for Coahoma, Tunica, and Quitman counties
| term_start=1964
| term_end=1968
| preceded=
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| birth_date=August 7, 1913
| birth_place=
| death_place=[[Jackson]], Hinds County, Mississippi
| death_date=September 4, 2004 (aged 91)
| resting_place=
| residence=(1) Jonestown, Coahoma County, Mississippi<br>
(2) Jackson, Mississippi
| occupation=[[Cotton]] and [[soybean]] [[farmer]]
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| spouse=(1) Miriam Swann Wise<br>
(2) Melba Taylor Swift Wise
| children=Daniel Reese Wise, Sr.<br>
Three grandchildren
|alma_mater=[[Mississippi State University]] (Starkville)
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
|rank=[[Captain]]}}
'''Seelig Bartel Wise''', sometimes known as '''Bushie Wise''' (August 7, 1913 – September 4, 2004), was a [[cotton]] and [[soybean]] [[farmer]] and [[business]]man from Clarksdale, [[Mississippi]], who was the first [[Republican Party|Republican]] to serve in the state Senate since [[Reconstruction]].
==Background==
Wise was a [[Captain]] in the [[United States Army]] during [[World War II]]. He graduated from the Chinese Language School in Berkeley, [[California]], and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in [[Agriculture]] from [[Mississippi State University]] in Starkville. For a time, he was a special agent for the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].<ref name=obit />
His family farm, owned with his brothers, was located at Jonestown in Coahoma County near Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressregister.com/article_b087cf45-a5b0-5c9e-b798-4dd9cf620d9f.html|title=Seelig Bartel "Bushie" Wise|date=September 7, 2004|publisher=''The Clarksdale Press Register''|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
Wise was twice married, first, to Miriam Swann and then after her death to Melba Taylor Swift. He had one son, Daniel Reese Wise, Sr., a 1968 graduate of Coahoma County High School and a former resident of Hattiesburg who was living in [[Costa Rica]] at the time of his father's death. He had three grandchildren. Wise was a [[Southern Baptist]]. He died at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in the capital city of [[Jackson]].<ref name=obit/>
==Political life==
In 1963, Wise ran for the state Senate seat encompassing Coahoma, Tunica, and Quitman counties<ref name=obit/> on the Republican ticket headed by [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Rubel Phillips]] of Corinth in Alcorn County and Jackson, Mississippi, and the candidate for lieutenant governor, [[Stanford Morse]], an outgoing state senator and lawyer from Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Governor [[Ross Barnett]] was term-limited in the 1963 election. While Phillips and Morse were defeated by the Democrats Paul Burney Johnson, Jr., and Carroll Gartin, respectively, Wise won his race. Buoyed by the [[Barry Goldwater]] landslide in Mississippi in 1964, Wise ran unsuccessfully in 1966 against the veteran Democrat Jamie L. Whitten for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district seat. In 1967, though Paul Johnson was ineligible to seek reelection as governor, a provision that has since been changed, Rubel Phillips again carried the Republican nomination for governor, but he was handily defeated by the Democrat U.S. Representative John Bell Williams of Mississippi's 3rd congressional district. By this time, [[Clarke Reed]] of Greenville had replaced the original chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, [[Wirt Yerger]], an insurance agent in Jackson. Wise lost his Senate seat after a single term, as did two freshmen Republican members of the state House of Representatives, [[Lewis McAllister|Lewis Leslie McAllister, Jr.]], a businessman from Meridian and later, Tuscaloosa, [[Alabama]], and [[Charles K. Pringle]], a lawyer from Biloxi.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 240, 242, 262</ref>
In 1969, the administration of U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] named Wise the state director of the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]. He also headed the Mississippi office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Soil Conservation Service.<ref name=obit/>
==Later years==
Wise served on the board of directors of the Mississippi Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and was the board president of the Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, a 195-bed hospital in Clarksdale. He co-founded the Mississippi Hospital Association of Governing Boards.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wise, Seelig}}
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category: Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]