W. L. Mhoon

W. L. Mhoon, also known as William L. Mhoon (1879–1950), was an American lawyer and politician in Jackson, Mississippi. He was one of two African American lawyers licensed in the state of Mississippi in the mid-1940s. Mhoon was a black-and-tan member of the Mississippi Republican Party.

Biography Mhoon was born in 1879 in Canton, Mississippi. He began practicing law in Mississippi in 1907.

By 1909, there were twenty-two Black lawyers in Mississippi. He reportedly appeared white, but did not try cases in court himself due to limitations imposed on the few black lawyers working in Mississippi. By 1944, Mhoon was one of two African American lawyers in the state, the other being Taylor G. Ewing of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

He was a delegate from Mississippi to the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. He was also a delegate at the 1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mhoon died of a stroke on April 10, 1950, After Mhoon's death in 1950, his widow Annie married Buddy Baldwin Dansby, the fourth president of Jackson State University.