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Jamie Lloyd Whitten (April 18, 1910 – September 9, 1995) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented his native state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He was at the time of his departure the longest-serving U.S. Representative ever.
10 de sept. de 1995 · Jamie L. Whitten, a son of the Old South who made a smooth transition to the New South as a Democratic Congressman from Mississippi for 53 years -- the record for the longest service in the...
10 de sept. de 1995 · Jamie L. Whitten, 85, a retired Mississippi Democrat who chaired the House Appropriations Committee and served longer in the House of Representatives than anyone in history, died of heart...
10 de sept. de 1995 · Former Rep. Jamie Lloyd Whitten, who served a record 53 years in the House, died Saturday. He was 85. Whitten, a Mississippi Democrat who retired in 1994, died of complications of chronic...
10 de sept. de 1995 · Associated Press. Former Rep. Jamie Lloyd Whitten, a Mississippi farm boy who served a record 53 years in the House and exerted quiet but powerful control over the nation’s purse strings,...
Whitten, Jamie Lloyd (b. 18 April 1910 in Cascilla, Mississippi; d. 9 September 1995 in Oxford, Mississippi), Democratic congressman who set the record for length of service in the U.S. House of Representatives, who opposed the environmental movement, and who played a major role in shaping U.S. agricultural policies.
WHITTEN, JAMIE LLOYD, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Cascilla, Tallahatchie County, Miss., April 18, 1910; attended the public schools and the literary and law departments of the University of Mississippi at Oxford; was admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice at Charleston, Miss.; principal of the Cowart School in ...
