G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery

A Representative from Mississippi. Born in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss. , August 5, 1920. Graduated from the McCallie School, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Miss. , 1939. Graduated from Mississippi State College, Starkville, Miss. , 1943. Owner, Montgomery Insurance Agency, Meridian, Miss. Vice president, Greater Mississippi Life Insurance Co. , Meridian, Miss. United States Army, . Second World War in the European Theater. Received Bronze Star Medal for Valor, European Theater Ribbon. Recalled to active duty during the Korean conflict in 1951 with Thirty-first Dixie Division. Recipient of the Mississippi National Guard Mississippi Magnolia Medal. Retired major general in Mississippi National Guard, 1980. Past president of Mississippi National Guard Association. Mississippi State senate representing Lauderdale County, 1956-1966. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninetieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1997). Chairman, Select Committee on Military Involvement in Southeast Asia (Ninety-first Congress), Select Committee on Missing in Action in Southeast Asia (Ninety-fourth Congress), Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Third Congresses). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush, 2005. Died on May 12, 2006, in Meridian, Miss. Interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Miss.