Bill Waller is a fifth generation Mississippian who grew up on a farm in Lafayette County. After earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Memphis and a law degree from the Ole Miss Law School, he began to practice law in Jackson in 1950. He is married to the former Carroll Overton and has five children and fourteen grandchildren. Bill Waller's vigorous prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in 1964 catapulted him into national prominence. In 1971 Bill Waller was elected governor in a major political upset. Historians and journalists mark his administration as a turning point in Mississippi history. Bill Waller recounts his life story in Straight Ahead: The Memoirs of a Mississippi Governor.
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Bill Waller:
The Memoirs of a Mississippi Governor
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