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Margaret Tate

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American politician (died 2006) This article is about the Mississippi politician. For the English opera singer, see Maggie Teyte.

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

  1. Women State and Territorial Legislators by Elizabeth M. Cox page 167
  2. Elkins, Ashley (10 June 2006). "Former state legislator dies at age 72". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
  3. "Obituary for Margaret Tate". Hattiesburg American. 10 June 2006. p. 28.
  4. https://da.mdah.ms.gov/musgrove/pdfs/5407.pdf
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