Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour is a Mississippi politican.
The Yazoo County native received a degree from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1973. In 1982, he was the Republican candidate for United States Senate but lost in a landslide to incumbent Democrat John C. Stennis. Afterwards, Barbour was President Ronald Reagan's Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs for two years. During his tenure as Republican National Committee chairman from 1993 to 1997, the Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress and gained a majority of governorships. Barbour went on to become an influential lobbyist and served as chairman of then-Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign advisory committee in 2000. In 2003, he announced his intention to run in the Mississippi governorship race. On 5 Aug 2003, he won the republican Primary as a gubernatorial candidate. He went on to defeat incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove in the general election on 4 Nov., 53% to 46%, becoming the second Republican governor elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
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