Former Tchula Mayor and MS-02 Republican nominee Yvonne Brown has died

Former Tchula Mayor Brown has died

Brown served as Tchula’s mayor from 2001 to 2009. She stood out in a heavily Democratic town that, according to the 2010 census, had a population of about 2,100 that was about 97 percent black.

She also was the Republican nominee for Congress in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District in 2006, losing to Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson.

She served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2004.

A list of survivors was not available.

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4/24/12