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Dennis Murphree

Dennis Murphree (6 January 1886-9 February 1949) was the Democratic Governor of Mississippi from 18 March 1927 to 17 January 1928 (succeeding Henry L. Whitfield and preceding Theodore G. Bilbo) and from 26 December 1943 to 18 January 1944 (succeeding Paul B. Johnson Sr. and preceding Thomas L. Bailey).

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Dennis Murphree was born in Pittsboro, Mississippi in 1886, and he served in the State House from 1911 to 1923, as Lieutenant Governor from 1924 to 1927, 1932 to 1936, and 1940 to 1943, and as Governor from 1927 to 1928 and 1943 to 1944. He created the Know Mississippi Better train in 1925 to exhibit Mississippi's culture and economy to other states, and his prevention of a lynching in 1927 cost him re-election to the white supremacist Theodore G. Bilbo. He died in 1949.

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