Mississippi Business Journal » Carroll Waller http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Waller eulogized as transformative Miss. governor http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/05/waller-eulogized-as-transformative-miss-governor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=waller-eulogized-as-transformative-miss-governor http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/12/05/waller-eulogized-as-transformative-miss-governor/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:06:18 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=49318 JACKSON — Former Mississippi Gov. William Waller Sr. was remembered Saturday as a transformative figure who helped the state move beyond its segregationist politics during his tenure from 1972 to 1976. More than 1,000 people attended Waller’s funeral at First Baptist Church in downtown Jackson. Hundreds more streamed through the Capitol rotunda earlier in the [...]

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