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Yerger's conservatives, who stressed [[states' rights]], replaced the former Black and Tan contingent, which had governed the state party from [[Washington, D.C.]], with the [[African-American]] [[attorney]] [[Perry W. Howard, II]] (1877–1961) as the national committeeman and the past dispenser of the limited federal patronage in the state.<ref name=jacksonfp>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/|author=Ronni Mott|title=Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=''The Jackson Free Press''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> At the  [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]] in 1952, Howard led an all-black delegation pledged not to Eisenhower, but [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/2755|author=Murray N. Rothbard|title=Swan Song of the Old Right|publisher=mises.org|date=June 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> a favorite of the conservative forces and known for his opposition to segregation. Taft said, "No segregationist belongs on a Republican ticket or even in the party."<ref name="ReferenceA">"Challenging the Status Quo," p. 248.</ref>

Yerger's conservatives, who stressed [[states' rights]], replaced the former Black and Tan contingent, which had governed the state party from [[Washington, D.C.]], with the [[African-American]] [[attorney]] [[Perry W. Howard, II]] (1877–1961) as the national committeeman and the past dispenser of the limited federal patronage in the state.<ref name=jacksonfp>{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/|author=Ronni Mott|title=Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=''The Jackson Free Press''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> At the  [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Chicago]] in 1952, Howard led an all-black delegation pledged not to Eisenhower, but [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mises.org/daily/2755|author=Murray N. Rothbard|title=Swan Song of the Old Right|publisher=mises.org|date=June 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> a favorite of the conservative forces and known for his opposition to segregation. Taft said, "No segregationist belongs on a Republican ticket or even in the party."<ref name="ReferenceA">"Challenging the Status Quo," p. 248.</ref>

In addition to the Yerger and Howard factions, there were two other smaller groups contending for intra-party power, the Lily-White Movement, led by George Lawson Sheldon (1870-1960), a former [[governor]] of [[Nebraska]], who had run for governor of Mississippi in 1947 and polled only 2.5 percent of the vote, and the "Democrats for Eisenhower" under E. O. Spencer. Some media had incorrectly identified Yerger as the head of the Lily Whites who had ousted the Black and Tans.<ref name=madison>{{cite web|url=http://onlinemadison.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=23246|title=Yerger recounts history of state GOP in new book|publisher=onlinemadison.com|date=January 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

In addition to the Yerger and Howard factions, there were two other smaller groups contending for intra-party power, the Lily-White Movement, led by George Lawson Sheldon (1870–1960), a former [[governor]] of [[Nebraska]], who had run for governor of Mississippi in 1947 and polled only 2.5 percent of the vote, and the "Democrats for Eisenhower" under E. O. Spencer. Some media had incorrectly identified Yerger as the head of the Lily Whites who had ousted the Black and Tans.<ref name=madison>{{cite web|url=http://onlinemadison.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=23246|title=Yerger recounts history of state GOP in new book|publisher=onlinemadison.com|date=January 21, 2011|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

George Sheldon's son, Anson Hoisington Sheldon (1905-1983), also a native Nebraskan and a resident of Washington County, Mississippi, was a member of the Mississippi Republican State Executive Committee from 1944 to 1967, the state chairman from 1948 to 1952, the vice-chairman from 1952 to 1967, and a delegate to the national conventions in 1956 and 1960..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheldon.html#867.05.30|title=Sheldon, Anson Hoisington|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

George Sheldon's son, Anson Hoisington Sheldon (1905–1983), also a native Nebraskan and a resident of Washington County, Mississippi, was a member of the Mississippi Republican State Executive Committee from 1944 to 1967, the state chairman from 1948 to 1952, the vice-chairman from 1952 to 1967, and a delegate to the national conventions in 1956 and 1960..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheldon.html#867.05.30|title=Sheldon, Anson Hoisington|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>

Despite Sheldon's earlier tenure as chairman, the Yerger faction considered him to be the first of the modern state Republican chairmen in Mississippi. Yerger said that his forces represented "the ultimate break with the old-line, racist Southern Democrats who didn't know whether they wanted to be [[liberal]] or conservative, but were vocally committed to keeping long-held, highly corrupted power."<ref name=book/>

Despite Sheldon's earlier tenure as chairman, the Yerger faction considered him to be the first of the modern state Republican chairmen in Mississippi. Yerger said that his forces represented "the ultimate break with the old-line, racist Southern Democrats who didn't know whether they wanted to be [[liberal]] or conservative, but were vocally committed to keeping long-held, highly corrupted power."<ref name=book/>