- Brad Dye
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name= Brad Dye
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office= Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
term_start= 1980
term_end= 1992
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birth_date=December 20 ,1933
birth_place=Charleston ,Mississippi
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party= Democrat
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footnotes=Brad Dye (born
December 20 ,1933 , inCharleston ,Mississippi ) is a retiredpolitician who served three 4-year terms asLieutenant Governor ofMississippi (1980-1992).Biography
In 1957, Dye received his bachelor of
business administration degree from theUniversity of Mississippi at Oxford and two years later graduated from the university's law school.In 1950, he worked as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives and also he worked for
Paul B. Johnson, Jr. After graduation from law school, he practiced law in Grenada in northern Mississippi until 1961.In 1960, he won a seat in the
Mississippi House of Representatives . When the legislature was not in session, he worked as anattorney for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, to which he had been elected by theMississippi State Senate . He resigned from this post 1965 when he was appointed as a commissioner to the Workman's Compensation Commission. In 1968, he was appointed director of the Agricultural and Industrial Board byGovernor John Bell Williams and served until 1971. He was elected state treasurer in 1971 and served from 1972-1976.Dye served as president of the Jackson
Savings and Loan Association from 1976-1979, when he was elected lieutenant governor. He was reelected in 1983 and 1987. He was a delegate to theDemocratic National Convention in 1980 and led the Mississippi delegation in 1984, when the party nominatedWalter F. Mondale ofMinnesota , whose candidacy was coolly received in Mississippi.Personal life
Dye is married to the former Donna Bess Bailey of Coffeeville, and they have three sons. Hamp Dye is married to the former Mary Shannon Moore and has two children, Nathan and David. Ford Dye is married to Sonya and has son named Bradford Johnson Dye, "Jack" as they call him. Rick Dye, the third son, is married to the former Emily Taylor and has two daughters, Emma Kathryn and Margaret.
External links
* [http://anna.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/ohdyebb.html oral history project]
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