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[[File:Robert A. taft painting.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Howard-led Mississippi GOP delegation in 1952 supported Robert Taft (pictured above) for president.]]
[[File:Robert A. taft painting.jpg|thumb|right|220px|The Howard-led Mississippi GOP delegation in 1952 supported Robert Taft (pictured above) for president.]]
{{cquote|...guilty of no wrong doing, directly or indirectly.}}
{{cquote|...guilty of no wrong doing, directly or indirectly.}}
The faction led by Howard was later challenged by [[Wirt Yerger|Wirt A. Yerger, Jr.]],<ref name=yerger>Mott, Ronni (May 12, 2009). [https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2009/may/12/yergers-revisionist-lily-white-history/ Yerger's Revisionist ‘Lily White' History]. ''Jackson Free Press''. Retrieved October 15, 2021.</ref> who led a coalition of businessmen and entrepreneurs in Mississippi who rebuilt the state GOP and established what became a two-party system.
===Supporting Robert Taft, 1952===
===Supporting Robert Taft, 1952===