A Lifetime in State Legislature


February 3, 2015

Mississippi Senator Hillman Frazier, JD '74, has spent more than three decades in state legislature. The Jackson Free Pressprofiles Senator Frazier's tenure spent preserving Mississippi's civil-rights history through the legislative process. His accomplishments include sponsoring a resolution to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a state holiday, travelling to South Africa to monitor the nation's first post-apartheid election in 1994, and authoring a bill to formally adopt the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and abolish slavery in Mississippi.

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