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'''John Bell Williams, Sr.''' (December 4, 1918 &ndash; March 25, 1983), was the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Governor]] of his native [[Mississippi]] from 1968 to 1972. He was first elected to Congress in 1946 at the age of twenty-seven, the youngest man to be elected to that position from Mississippi. In what then one-party Democrat Mississippi, he was reelected to the House through 1966 from three different districts because of redistricting.<ref name=findagrave>John Bell Williams (1918-1983) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 27, 2021.</ref>

'''John Bell Williams, Sr.''' (December 4, 1918 &ndash; March 25, 1983), was the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Governor]] of his native [[Mississippi]] from 1968 to 1972. He was elected to Congress in 1946 at the age of twenty-seven, the youngest man to be elected to that position from Mississippi. In what was then one-party Democrat Mississippi, he was reelected to the House through 1966 from three different districts, switched because of redistricting.<ref name=findagrave>John Bell Williams (1918-1983) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 27, 2021.</ref>

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