Stanford Everett Morse Jr. (May 31, 1926 – February 28, 2002), was a
Mississippi
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lawyer who served two terms in the
Mississippi State Senate
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. Initially a
Democrat
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, Morse became a
Republican in 1963 as part of an unsuccessful candidacy for the office of
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
The lieutenant governor of Mississippi is the second-highest ranking elected executive officer in the U.S. state of Mississippi, below the governor of Mississippi, and is the only official in the state to be a member of two branches of state gov ...
.
He lived in
Gulfport, Mississippi
Gulfport ( ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, and its co-county seat. It had a population of 72,926 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Mississippi, second-most populous ...
.
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1926 births
2002 deaths
People from Gulfport, Mississippi
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Mississippi state senators
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University of Mississippi alumni
University of Mississippi School of Law alumni
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature
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