Jamie L. Whitten

A Representative from Mississippi. Born in Cascilla, Tallahatchie County, Miss. , April 18, 1910. Attended the public schools and the literary and law departments of the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Was admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice at Charleston, Miss. Principal of the Cowart School in Tallahatchie County, Miss. , in 1930 and 1931. Member of the State house of representatives in 1931 and 1932. Elected district attorney of the seventeenth district of Mississippi, 1933-1941. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress by special election, November 4, 1941, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wall Doxey. Reelected to the twenty-six succeeding Congresses and served from November 4, 1941, to January 3, 1995. Not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress. Cochairman, Joint Committee on Budget Control (Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses). Chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Ninety-sixth through One Hundred Second Congresses). Died in Oxford, Miss. , on September 9, 1995. Interment in Charleston Cemetery, Charleston, Miss.