1. Brad Dye received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1957 from the University of Mississippi and a law degree in 1959 from the University of Mississippi School of Law.
23 Facts About Brad Dye
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Brad Dye married Donna Bess Bailey and had three children with her.
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Brad Dye was a conservative and a member of the Democratic Party.
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Brad Dye began his political career in 1950 as a page in the US House of Representatives for Jamie Whitten.
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Brad Dye worked as a driver for James Eastland during one of his US Senate campaigns.
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Brad Dye won election to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1959, serving in that capacity from 1960 until 1964.
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Brad Dye served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1964 to 1968.
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Brad Dye directed the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board from 1968 to 1971.
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Brad Dye was a segregationist in the 1960s and in 1967 served as gubernatorial candidate John Bell Williams' campaign manager.
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Brad Dye served as Mississippi State Treasurer from 1972 to 1976.
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Brad Dye entered a runoff in the Democratic primary with Evelyn Gandy and lost.
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Brad Dye was president of Jackson Savings and Loan Association from 1976 to 1979.
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Brad Dye convinced the Senate to let him chair the body's Rules Committee.
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Brad Dye feared that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ellis B Bodron would block the bill's passage.
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Brad Dye remained generally supportive of education reform but was accused by journalists of blocking other reform legislation.
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In 1983, Brad Dye won his second term as lieutenant governor by defeating Republican Gil Carmichael, an auto dealer from Meridian who ran as an independent.
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In 1987, Brad Dye won re-election to a third consecutive four-year term in office.
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In 1991 Brad Dye was challenged in the Democratic primary by state senator Ken Harper, accused him of creating "gridlock" over reform legislation affecting ballot initiatives, referendums, and limits on lobbying.
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Brad Dye countered by accusing Harper of improperly using his office for private gain by performing legal services for three state bodies.
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Briggs characterized Brad Dye as beholden to "the tired, old, worn politic of the past" and denounced him for failing to pass reform legislation.
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Brad Dye attacked him for refusing to release his tax returns, participate in a public debate, and for collecting the governor's salary while serving as acting governor whenever the incumbent was out of the state.
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Brad Dye encouraged the House to affirm Briggs' victory on the basis that he earned a plurality of the votes.
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Brad Dye died of respiratory failure on July 1,2018, at a hospice in Ridgeland, Mississippi.