I first met Wirt Yerger, Jr. in 1999. I was political director at the Mississippi Republican Party and there were two desks in my office. One was a very functional, large, circa late 1950s metal desk. Its broad top was perfect to support the computer, printer, and workspace holding the Republican voter databases and used to generate walk lists and voter target materials.
Yerger walked into my office and introduced himself. I recognized him from his picture on the wall. He was the MSGOP’s first chairman serving from 1956 until 1966: an Eisenhower Republican. He had come by, I think, to see the new building. The Party had just moved from rented offices at the corner of Tombigbee and South State Street to a purchased building on the corner of Yazoo and Congress Street in Jackson.
We spoke and he looked over at the voter file desk and remarked that was his desk when he was chairman. The Party had new digital phones, but the main line number (601-948-5191) were the same digits secured by Yerger when he opened the first Republican Party office.
Madison County Journal
5/21/9
Magnolia Tribune
