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Wall Doxey (August 8, 1892March 2, 1962) was an American politician from
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Holly Springs is a city in, and the county seat of, Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, near the southern border of Tennessee. Near the Mississippi Delta, the area was developed by European Americans for cotton plantations and was dep ...
. He served as a
Democrat
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from
Mississippi's 2nd congressional district
Mississippi's 2nd congressional district (MS-2) covers much of Western Mississippi. It includes most of Jackson, the riverfront cities of Greenville and Vicksburg and the interior market cities of Clarksdale, Greenwood and Clinton. The distr ...
in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1929 to 1941. After the death of
U.S. Senator
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Pat Harrison
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Early li ...
, Doxey won a special election to his seat, and served in the
United States Senate
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from 1941 until 1943. He was defeated in the 1942 Democratic primary by
James Eastland.
MS US Senate - D Runoff Race - Sep 15, 1942
''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
Throughout his political career, Doxey represented a district with a black-majority population, whose political affiliation in the nineteenth century had been with the Republican Party. But, African Americans were effectively excluded from the political system from 1890 to the late 1960s by Mississippi's constitution and restrictions affecting voter registration. Doxey was the only United States Senator to serve also as the Senate Sergeant at Arms
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. He was appointed to this position after losing his Senate seat, serving from February 1, 1943, to January 3, 1947.
Wall Doxey State Park, a state park
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in Mississippi, is named after him.
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"Wall Doxey"
Senate Biography
1892 births
1962 deaths
Sergeants at Arms of the United States Senate
Democratic Party United States senators from Mississippi
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
20th-century American politicians
People from Holly Springs, Mississippi
Burials at Hillcrest Cemetery
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