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==Political life==

==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 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/>

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/>