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| birth_date=June 1, 1930
| birth_date=June 1, 1930
| birth_place=[[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], USA
| birth_place=[[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], USA
| death_date=May 2, 2022 (aged 91)
| death_place=Jackson, Mississippi<br>
'''Resting place''':<br>
Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson
| residence=Jackson, Mississippi
| residence=Jackson, Mississippi
| occupation=[[Insurance]] agent
| occupation=[[Insurance]] agent
}}
}}
'''Wirt Adams Yerger, Jr.''' (born June 1, 1930)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/wirt-yerger/e306067311948|title=Wirt Yerger|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> is a retired [[business]]man from the capital city of [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], who is the founding 20th century state chairman of the [[Republican Party]], a position that he filled for the decade from 1956 to 1966.
'''Wirt Adams Yerger, Jr.''' (June 1, 1930 *ndash; May 2, 2022)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/wirt-yerger/e306067311948|title=Wirt Yerger|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> was a retired [[business]]man from the capital city of [[Jackson]], [[Mississippi]], who is the founding 20th century state chairman of the [[Republican Party]], a position that he filled for the decade from 1956 to 1966.
Yerger's efforts which re-established a strong Mississippi GOP was bolstered by economic mobility, which businessmen and entrepreneurs symbolized. Contrary to the left-wing "[[Southern strategy]]" narrative which alleges that white Southerners became Republicans on the basis of race, the slow trend towards the GOP was largely attributed to economic improvements.
Yerger's efforts which re-established a strong Mississippi GOP was bolstered by economic mobility, which businessmen and entrepreneurs symbolized. Contrary to the left-wing "[[Southern strategy]]" narrative which alleges that white Southerners became Republicans on the basis of race, the slow trend towards the GOP was largely attributed to economic improvements.
==Background==
==Background==
Yerger is a son of Wirt Yerger, Sr. (1901–1974) and Rivers Applewhite Yerger (1904–1991), the latter of which is a native of Columbia in Marion County in southwestern Mississippi. The couple is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, along with other family members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111699935|title=Rivers Applewhite Yerger|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>
Yerger was a son of Wirt Yerger, Sr. (1901–1974) and Rivers Applewhite Yerger (1904–1991), the latter of which is a native of Columbia in Marion County in southwestern Mississippi. The couple is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, along with other family members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111699935|title=Rivers Applewhite Yerger|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref>
Yerger's younger brother, William Swan Yerger (born 1932), is a retired Hinds County circuit court [[judge]] who served from 1997 to 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mslitigationreview.com/2009/06/articles/hinds-county-circuit-court-2/hinds-circuit-judge-swan-yerger-announces-retirement-in-2010/|author=Philip Thomas|title=Hinds Circuit Judge Swan Yerger announces retirement in 2010|date=June 1, 2009|publisher=''Mississippi Litigation Review''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Swan Yerger, as he is known, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican nominee at the age of thirty-one for the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1963 against [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] William I. S. "Billy" Thompson, the son of Jackson Mayor Allen Cavett Thompson (1906–1980). At the time, Swan Yerger was a staunch critic of unpledged electors, which had carried Mississippi and half of [[Alabama]] in the 1960 presidential election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)," ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 254.</ref>
Yerger's younger brother, William Swan Yerger (born 1932), is a retired Hinds County circuit court [[judge]] who served from 1997 to 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mslitigationreview.com/2009/06/articles/hinds-county-circuit-court-2/hinds-circuit-judge-swan-yerger-announces-retirement-in-2010/|author=Philip Thomas|title=Hinds Circuit Judge Swan Yerger announces retirement in 2010|date=June 1, 2009|publisher=''Mississippi Litigation Review''|accessdate=June 30, 2020}}</ref> Swan Yerger, as he is known, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican nominee at the age of thirty-one for the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1963 against [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] William I. S. "Billy" Thompson, the son of Jackson Mayor Allen Cavett Thompson (1906–1980). At the time, Swan Yerger was a staunch critic of unpledged electors, which had carried Mississippi and half of [[Alabama]] in the 1960 presidential election.<ref>Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)," ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 254.</ref>