About Ellis B. Bodron
Lived 1923 – 1997 (aged 73). Ellis B. Bodron was an American politician.
Ellis Barkett Bodron (October 25, 1923 - February 17, 1997) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1952 to 1984 and in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1948 to 1952. He was blind.
Early life Ellis Barkett Bodron was born on October 25, 1923, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He became blind as a child. He was a lawyer. Several other incumbent legislators viewed as opponents to education reform were also defeated in the 1983 elections.
Later life In 1991 President George H. W. Bush appointed him to the Council Association of Americans with Disabilities, where he served until 1996. He died of brain cancer on February 17, 1997, in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Ellis B. Bodron was born on 25 October 1923 in Vicksburg.
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Ellis B. Bodron died on 17 February 1997 in Jackson, Mississippi.
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