Margaret "Wootsie" Tate (died 2006) was a state legislator who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate. She served in the house from 1984 to 1988 and in the senate from 1988 to 1992. A Democrat she lived in Picayune and represented Hancock County.
She was involved in insurance bills, legislation authorizing a landfill in Hancock County, and a mandatory seat belt law (it passed in the senate). She had a son and two daughters. In 2003, governor Ronnie Musgrove appointed her to the Mississippi Prison Industry Corporation.
References
- Women State and Territorial Legislators by Elizabeth M. Cox page 167
- Elkins, Ashley (10 June 2006). "Former state legislator dies at age 72". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
- "Obituary for Margaret Tate". Hattiesburg American. 10 June 2006. p. 28.
- https://da.mdah.ms.gov/musgrove/pdfs/5407.pdf
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