The Mississippi Code (§ 47-5-131 ) gives Quitman County the right to " not over twenty ( 20 ) offenders from the Parchman facility for five ( 5 ) workdays of each week for the purpose of working the roads of Quitman County ," and goes on to state that " The board of supervisors of Quitman County shall lay out and designate roads to be worked by the offenders, and the board of supervisors shall furnish transportation to and from the Parchman facility for offenders.

The boundaries of the county are set in Mississippi Code section 19-1-89 as:

The Mississippi section of U. S. 45 is defined at Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

The Mississippi section of U. S. 82 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi reared near Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Brown was instrumental in drafting the Louisiana Mineral Code.

Mississippi Code, Title 3, Chapter 3 describes the flag as follows:

Legally, the Mississippi section of U. S. 65 was defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

Legally, the route of I-220 is defined in Mississippi Code § 65-3-3.

The Mississippi section of U. S. 51 is defined at Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

Legally, the Mississippi section of US 72 is defined in Mississippi Code § 65-3-3.

Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 0-87805-975-X.

The route of I-110 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3.

* Mississippi ( to use reference, select " Code of 1972 " and search " retreat ")

The Seal of Iowa is described carefully under Iowa Code 1A. 1 in the following: " The secretary of state be, and is, hereby authorized to procure a seal which shall be the great seal of the state of Iowa, two inches in diameter, upon which shall be engraved the following device, surrounded by the words, ' The Great Seal of the State of Iowa ' - a sheaf and field of standing wheat, with a sickle and other farming utensils, on the left side near the bottom ; a lead furnace and pile of pig lead on the right side ; the citizen soldier, with a plow in his rear, supporting the American flag and liberty cap with his right hand, and his gun with his left, in the center and near the bottom ; the Mississippi River in the rear of the whole, with the steamer Iowa under way ; an eagle near the upper edge, holding in his beak a scroll, with the following inscription upon it: Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi from 1972 to 1974 surpassing the then Bank of America Center.

After returning to Mississippi to live, in 1972 Meredith ran for the US Senate against the Democratic senator James Eastland, who had been the incumbent for 29 years.

* John Bell Williams, governor of Mississippi from 1968 to 1972, was born in Raymond ; he formerly served in the United States House of Representatives.

In 1972, Lane bought a small reclining chair company in Tupelo, Mississippi named Action Industries.

In 1972, the Synod of Mississippi officially transferred ownership of the college to the Board of Trustees, making Belhaven a fully independent college.

Mississippi Valley State University's Department of Mathematics, Computer and Information Sciences is housed in the Fielding L. Wright Science Complex, and the Fielding L. Wright Memorial Health Fund was established in 1972.

DMAHC was formed in 1972 when the Navy's Hydrographic Office split its two components: The charting component was attached to DMAHC, and the survey component moved to the Naval Oceanographic Office, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on the grounds of what is now the NASA Stennis Space Center.

Fred McDowell ( January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972 ) known by his stage name ; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American Hill country blues singer and guitar player.

McDowell died of cancer in 1972, aged 68, and was buried at Hammond Hill Baptist Church, between Como and Senatobia, Mississippi.

“ Who Were the Mississippi Scalawags ?” Journal of Southern History 38 ( May 1972 ): 2 17 — 40 in JSTOR

in 1972, both from the University of Mississippi.

In the 1972 election, by contrast, Nixon won every state in the Union except Massachusetts, winning more than 70 percent of the popular vote in most of the Deep South ( Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina ) and 61 % of the national vote.

He also received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from The University of Southern Mississippi in 1964, and a master of science in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1972.

* 555 California Street ( formerly The Bank of America Center ), is completed in San Francisco, California, and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi from 1969 – 1972.

Earl Buford Ellington ( June 27, 1907 – April 3, 1972 ), a native of Mississippi, was the 42nd Governor of Tennessee from 1959 to 1963 and again from 1967 until 1971.

# Mississippi: 1972

A Democrat, Waller served as the Governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976.

Litigation in the Southern Mississippi federal court and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans stripped the Regular Democrats of Mississippi of their official status and their 25 seats in the 1972 National Democratic Convention.

* c. 1964 Mississippi John Hurt ( album: Last Sessions, released 1972 )

* 1972 – Trent Lott, prior to running for the House of Representatives from Mississippi.

He was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1968 to 1972 and a General in the United States Air National Guard.

From 1968 to 1970, Hawks served in the United States Army Reserve and from 1970 to 1972, he served in the Mississippi Army National Guard.

* Fielding L. Wright, Governor of Mississippi

The Dixiecrats held their convention at Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama, where they nominated Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright, Governor of Mississippi, for vice president.

Fielding Lewis Wright ( May 16, 1895 – May 4, 1956 ) was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946, then as Governor after the incumbent, Thomas L. Bailey, died in office in 1946.

Fielding L. Wright governed Mississippi at a time when the state's economy, social customs, and race relations were undergoing slow but significant changes.

Fielding L. Wright died on May 4, 1956 in Jackson and was buried in his home town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

The Dixiecrats held their convention in Birmingham, Alabama, where they nominated Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright, governor of Mississippi, for vice president.