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Brad Dye
27th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
In office
January 22, 1980 – January 14, 1992
GovernorWilliam Winter
William Allain
Ray Mabus
Preceded byEvelyn Gandy
Succeeded byEddie Briggs
47th State Treasurer of Mississippi
In office
January 18, 1972 – January 20, 1976
GovernorBill Waller
Preceded byEvelyn Gandy
Succeeded byEd Pittman
Member of the Mississippi State Senate
In office
1964–1965
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
In office
1960–1961
Personal details
Born(1933-12-20)December 20, 1933
Charleston, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedJuly 1, 2018(2018-07-01) (aged 84)
Ridgeland, Mississippi, U.S.
Resting placeCharleston Cemetery
Charleston, Mississippi
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseDonna Bailey (m. 1963-2018, his death)
Children3 sons
Alma materUniversity of Mississippi (BA, JD)
ProfessionLawyer

Bradford Johnson Dye Jr.[1] (December 20, 1933 – July 1, 2018) was an American politician who served three 4-year terms as 27th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1980 until 1992. Dye is the only individual in state history to have served as Lieutenant Governor for 12 consecutive years.[2]

Early life

Dye was born in Charleston, Mississippi. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration (1957) and a law degree (1959) from the University of Mississippi.[3]

Career

A member of the Democratic Party, Dye began his political career in 1950 as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives and subsequently worked for Paul B. Johnson Jr. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1960,[4] later also serving in the Mississippi Senate [2] and as Mississippi state Treasurer.[3] He was a segregationist in the 1960s.[5]

Dye was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1979. By then, he decided to "make his peace with integration, hiring African Americans onto his staff as lieutenant governor."[5] In 1983, Dye won his second term as lieutenant governor by defeating Republican Gil Carmichael, an auto dealer from Meridian. Carmichael had been his party's nominee for governor in 1975 against Cliff Finch and in 1979 against William Winter. In 1987, Dye won re-election to a third consecutive four-year term in office. In 1986 a commission studying the state's constitution affirmed Dye's perspective on the powers of the lieutenant governor's office.[6]

In September 2010 he was presented with the Mississippi Medal of Service by Governor Haley Barbour.[2]

Death

Dye died of respiratory failure on July 1, 2018 in Ridgeland, Mississippi.[5][7]

References

  1. ^ "Distinguished Alumni Receive Prestigious Awards". Olemissalumni.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b c governorbarbour.com Archived January 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b "Mississippi candidates ready for runoff battle", Times Daily, August 7, 1975
  4. ^ "Dye, Brad, 1933-". Crdl.usg.edu. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Amy, Jeff (July 2, 2018). "Brad Dye, longtime Mississippi lieutenant governor, dies at 84". Clarion Ledger. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  6. ^ "Mississippi panel backs lieutenant governor", The Advocate, December 19, 1986
  7. ^ "Dye, Longtime Mississippi Lieutenant Governor, Dies at 84". Usnews.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
Political offices
Preceded by Treasurer of Mississippi
1972–1976 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
1980–1992 		Succeeded by


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