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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Murrell Dean Kirby
| name=Murrell Dean Kirby
| image=Dean Kirby of MS.jpg
| office=Mississippi State Senator<br> for District 30 (Rankin County)
| office=Mississippi State Senator<br> for District 30 (Rankin County)
| term_start=January 1992
| term_start=January 1992
| term_end=
| term_end=
| preceded=Unavailable
| preceded=Unavailable
| succeeded=
| succeeded=[[Charles Younger]]
| birth_date=November 21, 1946
| birth_date=November 21, 1946
| birth_place=Lake City<br>Craighead County<br>[[Arkansas]]
| birth_place=Lake City<br>Craighead County<br>[[Arkansas]]
}}
}}
'''Murrell Dean Kirby''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=882908|title=Murrell Dean Kirby|publisher=Prabook.com|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
'''Murrell Dean Kirby''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=882908|title=Murrell Dean Kirby|publisher=Prabook.com|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
known as '''Dean Kirby''' (born November 21, 1946), is an [[insurance]] agent from Pearl, [[Mississippi]], who has since 1992 represented District 17 in the Mississippi State Senate. The district is located in [[suburb]]an Rankin County near the capital city of [[Jackson]].<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/kirby.xml|title=Dean Kirby|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
known as '''Dean Kirby''' (born November 21, 1946), is an [[insurance]] agent from Pearl, [[Mississippi]], who from 1992 to 2014 represented District 17 in the Mississippi State Senate. The district is located in [[suburb]]an Rankin County near the capital city of [[Jackson]].<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/kirby.xml|title=Dean Kirby|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
Though a native of rural Lake City in Craighead County near Jonesboro, [[Arkansas]], Kirby attended the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton and received a Bachelor of Science from the [[Chicago]]-based LaSalle Extension University. Since 1979, he has operated his insurance agency in Pearl. He is a member of the Rankin County Homebuilders Association, the Pearl and Rankin County chambers of commerce, the Exchange Club, Kiwanis International, and the Masonic lodge. He is a member of the [[conservative]] policy organization, the American Legislative Exchange Commission. He and his wife, the former Jean Latham, have three children, Christopher, Tara, and Tina, and six grandchildren. He is a [[Baptist]].<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/3609/dean-kirby#.WeYsErpFzb0|title=Dean Kirby's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 16, 2017}}</ref>
Though a native of rural Lake City in Craighead County near Jonesboro, [[Arkansas]], Kirby attended the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton and received a Bachelor of Science from the [[Chicago]]-based LaSalle Extension University, an on-line organization. Since 1979, he has operated his insurance agency in Pearl. He is a member of the Rankin County Homebuilders Association, the Pearl and Rankin County chambers of commerce, the Exchange Club, Kiwanis International, and the Masonic lodge. He is a member of the [[conservative]] policy organization, the American Legislative Exchange Commission. He and his wife, the former Jean Latham, have three children, Christopher, Tara, and Tina, and six grandchildren. He is a Southern Baptist.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/3609/dean-kirby#.WeYsErpFzb0|title=Dean Kirby's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 16, 2017}}</ref>
Kirby was chairman of the Rankin County Republican Party organization in 1977. He was first elected to the state Senate in November 1991, when Kirk Fordice became Mississippi's first Republican [[governor]] since [[Reconstruction]]. In his most recent general elections in 2011 and 2015, he ran without opposition.<ref name=ballotpedia>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Dean_Kirby|title=Dean Kirby|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2015-General-Election.aspx|title=General election returns|date=November 3, 2015|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
Kirby was chairman of the Rankin County Republican Party organization in 1977. He was first elected to the state Senate in November 1991, when Kirk Fordice became Mississippi's first Republican [[governor]] since [[Reconstruction]]. In his most recent general elections in 2011 and 2015, he ran without opposition.<ref name=ballotpedia>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Dean_Kirby|title=Dean Kirby|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2015-General-Election.aspx|title=General election returns|date=November 3, 2015|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>