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WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd

WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd
1910–1995

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Mississippi

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

77th (1941–1943), 78th (1943–1945), 79th (1945–1947), 80th (1947–1949), 81st (1949–1951), 82nd (1951–1953), 83rd (1953–1955), 84th (1955–1957), 85th (1957–1959), 86th (1959–1961), 87th (1961–1963), 88th (1963–1965), 89th (1965–1967), 90th (1967–1969), 91st (1969–1971), 92nd (1971–1973), 93rd (1973–1975), 94th (1975–1977), 95th (1977–1979), 96th (1979–1981), 97th (1981–1983), 98th (1983–1985), 99th (1985–1987), 100th (1987–1989), 101st (1989–1991), 102nd (1991–1993), 103rd (1993–1995)

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Biography

WHITTEN, Jamie Lloyd, 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.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

University of Mississippi Libraries
The Department of Archives and Special Collections

University, MS
Papers: 1941-1995; 1,971 linear feet. At this time, only the Jamie Whitten collection’s recordings are processed and available to researchers. A finding aid is available online at the following website: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00732/.

Cornell University Library
Manuscripts and Archives

Ithaca, NY
Papers: In the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives Records, 1946-1976, 53 cubic feet. Persons named in the records include Jamie Whitten.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Archives and Manuscripts

Boston, MA
Papers: In the Lawrence O'Brien White House Congressional Liaison Office Files, 1961-1963, 16.5 cubic feet. Correspondents include Jamie Whitten.

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division

Washington, DC
Papers: In the Clark M. Clifford Papers, ca. 1883-1999, 34.6 linear feet. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.

Princeton University Library
Mudd Manuscript Library

Princeton, NJ
Papers: In the David Lawrence Papers, ca. 1901-1975, 163 cubic feet. Correspondents include Jamie Whitten.

Stanford University
Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, CA
Papers: In the Robert Charles Hill Papers, 1942-1978, 183 boxes. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.

University of California, Berkeley
The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA
Papers: In the Hardin B. Jones Papers, 1937-1978, 15 boxes. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.
Papers: In the Sierra Club National Legislative Office Records, 1960-[on-going], 200 linear feet. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.

University of Michigan
Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library

Ann Arbor, MI
Papers: In the Philip A. Hart Papers, 1949-1976, 281 linear feet. Correspondents include Jamie Whitten.

University Texas at Austin
Briscoe Center for American History

Austin, TX
Papers: In the Sam Rayburn Papers, ca. 1831-2007, approximately 119 feet. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.

University of Virginia
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library

Charlottesville, VA
Papers: In the Hugh Scott Papers, 1681-1987, approximately 17 linear feet. Persons represented include Jamie Whitten.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: Jamie L. Whitten, Democratic Representative from Mississippi. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.

Whitten, Jamie L. That We May Live. Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company Inc., 1966.

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