The incumbent Democrat that was term-limited in the 1983 Mississippi gubernatorial election is best remembered for the passage of what act?
Mississippi gubernatorial election, 1983 The 1983 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1983, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat William Winter was term-limited, and could not run for reelection to a second term.
James William Trimble James William Trimble (February 3, 1894 – March 10, 1972) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas, having served from 1945 to 1967. He was the first Democrat in Arkansas since Reconstruction to lose a congressional race to a Republican. Trimble was unseated in the 1966 general election by John Paul Hammerschmidt of Harrison in Boone County, who won election on the GOP ticket headed by gubernatorial nominee Winthrop Rockefeller.