Carroll Gartin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Carroll Gartin

American politician

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Meridian, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1966

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Carroll Gartin

  • Carroll Gartin (September 14, 1913 – December 19, 1966) was an American Democratic politician from Laurel in Jones County in southeastern Mississippi, who served three terms as the 22nd lieutenant governor of his state.
  • He was born in Meridian in eastern Mississippi.He served his first two terms from 1952 to 1960 under fellow Democrats, Governors Hugh L.
  • White and James P.
  • Coleman.
  • He returned to the office for two years under Paul B.
  • Johnson Jr., but died midway in the term.
  • In the 1963 campaign, Gartin accused Johnson's opponent, the Republican nominee Rubel Phillips of Corinth and Jackson of having created an unnecessary general election, a scenario then new to Mississippi.
  • As a former Democrat, Gartin said that Phillips could have simply remained in the Democratic primary and hence voided the need for a third election. Johnson's campaign was buoyed by outgoing Governor Ross Barnett and Democratic state chairman Bidwell Adam.
  • Johnson topped Phillips, 62-38 percent, and Gartin defeated the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, Stanford Morse, a state senator from Gulfport by an even larger 74-26 percent.Gartin was a staunch white supremacist and a former supporter of Governor and U.S.
  • Senator Theodore Bilbo[1].
  • He was a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, which was devoted to preserving racial segregation in the state.[2] Gartin was a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention, which nominated the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket. Gartin died of a heart attack in 1966 at Jones County Community Hospital, hours after checking in for chest pains.The Carroll Gartin Justice Building (32°18'19?N 90°10'56?W) in the state capital of Jackson is named after him and houses the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals as well as the state law library.
  • Gartin was an attorney; he practiced law with Republican Charles W.
  • Pickering.[3]

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