Changes

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>​

Yerger is a former [[insurance]] agent with the firm Ross & Yerger (founded 1860) in Jackson. He is affiliated with Rotary International,  the [[Chamber of Commerce]], and the [[YMCA]]. One of the founders of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation, he also operated the Wirt A. Yerger Jr. Foundation, Inc. He and his wife, Mary, have three children, one of whom is the businessman Wirt, III (born c. 1957).<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfgreaterjackson.org/giving-you-best.html|title=Wirt Yerger, Jr.|publisher=cfgreaterjackson.org|accessdate=May 10, 2014}}</ref>​

Yerger is a former [[insurance]] agent with the firm Ross & Yerger (founded 1860) in Jackson. He is affiliated with Rotary International,  the [[Chamber of Commerce]], and the [[YMCA]]. One of the founders of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation, he also operated the Wirt A. Yerger Jr. Foundation, Inc. He and his wife, Mary, have three children, one of whom is the businessman Wirt, III (born c. 1957).<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfgreaterjackson.org/giving-you-best.html|title=Wirt Yerger, Jr.|publisher=cfgreaterjackson.org|accessdate=May 10, 2014; material no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>​

==Political life==

==Political life==