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Alphonso Michael Espy (born November 30, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 25th United States secretary of agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was both the first African American and the first person from the Deep South to hold the position.
Apr 3, 2007 · Alphonso Michael Espy in 1986 became the first black Congressman elected from Mississippi since John R. Lynch, who served during Reconstruction. He was also the first African American to hold the post of Secretary of Agriculture.
Oct 20, 2020 · In his second bid in two years to become the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, Mike Espy has erased a 25-point deficit to make the race a dead heat.
Sep 24, 2020 · Mike Espy, age 66, is vying to be the first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi. In 1986, Espy, a Democrat, became the first Black Mississippian elected to the U.S. House since Reconstruction.
Oct 29, 2018 · Such was the case in 1986 when, as a 32-year-old attorney from Yazoo City, he won election to Congress from the Delta district where political icon Robert Clark, the first black person elected to the Legislature since the 1800s, failed in two previous attempts. Espy made national news by winning.
Dec 2, 2023 · Mike Espy became the first Black congressman elected from Mississippi since Reconstruction. Born in Yazoo City, his grandfather was Thomas J. Huddleston Sr., founder of the Afro-American Sons and Daughters, which operated the Afro-American Hospital, providing health care to Black Mississippians until the 1970s.
Sep 30, 2020 · In 1986, a young Black lawyer and state official named Mike Espy was elected the first Black congressman from Mississippi since the late 1800s. He was re-elected three times.
Having served as both a US congressman and US secretary of agriculture by the time he was forty, Mike Espy seemed on his way to a long and successful political career before he was brought down by an influence-peddling scandal. Born on 30 November 1953 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, Alphonso Michael “Mike” Espy earned a […]
His money was raised in Detroit, among the unions; in Washington, among the Democratic leadership; in New York, among Jewish donors; in California, among the Hollywood elite. I looked at his FEC [Federal Election Commission] report, and could see where his money had come from.
Alphonso Michael Espy is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was both the first African American and...
