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'''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 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>

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, 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>

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>