A fifth generation Mississippian, Bill Waller grew
up on a farm in Lafayette County. After earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Memphis and a law degree from
the Ole Miss law school, he began the practice of law in Jackson in 1950. He is married to the former Carroll Overton and
has five children and fourteen grandchildren. Waller's vigorous prosecution of Byron De La Beckwith for the murder
of Medgar Evers in 1964 catapulted him into national prominenc. In 1971 Waller was elected governor in a major political upset.
Historians and journalists mark his administration as a turning point in Mississippi history. |
Books by Bill Waller:
The Memoirs of a Mississippi Governor
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