Gil Carmichael
| Gil Carmichael | |
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| Born |
Gilbert Ellzey Carmichael June 27, 1927 Columbia, Mississippi, US |
| Died | January 31, 2016 (aged 88) Meridian, Mississippi, US |
| Alma mater | Texas A&M University |
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Republican nominee for:
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| Spouse(s) | Carolyn Carmichael |
| Children | One |
Republican nominee for:
Gilbert Ellzey "Gil" Carmichael (June 27, 1927 – January 31, 2016) was an American businessman, transportation policy specialist, and Republican politician from Meridian, Mississippi. He was a key player in the slow development of the two-party system in Mississippi during the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Carmichael was born in Columbia in Marion County in southwestern Mississippi. After graduation from high school, from 1944 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1953, he served in the United States Coast Guard. In 1950, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. In 1976, he was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1961, Carmichael was a Volkswagen dealer in Meridian in Lauderdale County and a real estate developer. In 1968, Carmichael launched Missouth Properties, a commercial real estate firm in Meridian, now run by his son, Gilbert. Carmichael died at the age of eighty-eight of a heart attack at Anderson Regional Medical Center in Meridian.
In the 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Carmichael supported Rubel Phillips, the first Republican to seek the state's highest office in decades. A former member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from Corinth in northeastern Mississippi, Phillips challenged the Democratic nominee, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., the son of an earlier governor, Paul B. Johnson, Sr. In a civic club debate in Meridian, Carmichael remarked that it was:
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