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Wirt Yerger
Wirt Adams Yerger, Jr. (born 1930), is a retired businessman from Jackson, Mississippi, who is the founding 20th century state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, a position that he filled from 1956 to 1966.
==Background==
Yerger is a son of Wirt Yerger, Sr. (1901-1974) and Rivers Applewhite Yerger (1904-1991), she a native of Columbia in Marion County in southwestern Mississippi. The couple is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in the capital city of Jackson, as are other family members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rivers Applewhite Yerger )〕
Yerger's younger brother, William Swan Yerger (born 1932), is a retired Hinds County circuit court judge who served from 1997 to 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philip Thomas, Hinds Circuit Judge Swan Yerger announces retirement in 2010, June 1, 2009 )〕 Swan Yerger, as he is known, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican nominee at the age of thirty-one for the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1963 against Democrat William I. S. "Billy" Thompson, the son of Jackson Mayor Allen C. Thompson. At the time, Swan Yerger was a staunch critic of unpledged electors, which had carried Mississippi in the 1960 presidential election.〔Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)", ''The Journal of Mississippi History'' XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 254〕
Yerger is a former insurance agent with the firm Ross & Yerger (founded 1860) in Jackson. He is affiliated with Rotary International, the Chamber of Commerce, and the YMCA. One of the founders of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation, he also operates the Wirt A. Yerger Jr. Foundation, Inc. He and his wife, Mary, have three children, one of whom is the businessman Wirt, III (born c. 1957).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wirt Yerger, Jr. )〕
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