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In 1977, he ran for the mayor office of Jackson, Mississippi as a Democrat, beating Republican candidate Doug Shanks. [7] [8] He won re-election in 1981. [2] Starting in 1985, he became the first mayor of the city under mayor-council form. [9] Danks stopped being the mayor of Jackson in 1989, when he lost in a runoff election to J. Kane Ditto ...
Leland Speed (October 20, 1899 – August 8, 1971) [1] [2] was an investment banker and former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi and the husband of Katherine Ettl. Biography
In 1888, The Clarion merged with the State Ledger and became known as the Daily Clarion-Ledger. Four employees who were displaced by the merger founded their own newspaper, The Jackson Evening Post, in 1892. One of those four was Walter Giles Johnson, Sr. He survived the other three to grow the paper later known as the "Jackson Daily News"
March 25, 2023/Clarion Ledger file photo — KeUntey Ousley of Rolling Fork, Miss., tries to salvage what he can from his mother's boyfriend's vehicle Saturday, March 25, 2023, after a tornado ...
James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon.At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.
Last year, Clarion Ledger staffers told you about all sorts of new business developments in and around the Jackson area, including a proposed $150 million movie studio that could change Jackson ...
William Harvey Johnson Jr. was born on May 10, 1919, in Ball, Louisiana, to William Harvey Johnson Sr. and Lela Johnson.He attended Harperville High School, graduating in 1935.
Prior to the scandal, she told The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in 2022 that the number of unclaimed bodies handled by her office had risen sharply over the past two decades — a trend repeated in ...