Wyatt Durrette
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| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 18th district |
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In office January 12, 1972 – January 11, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Martin H. Perper |
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Wyatt Beazley Durrette, Jr. February 21, 1938 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Cheryn Lee Coller |
| Alma mater |
Virginia Military Institute Washington & Lee University Johns Hopkins University |
Wyatt Beazley Durrette, Jr. (born February 21, 1938) is an American attorney and Republican politician, who served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Born in Richmond, Virginia on February 21, 1938, Durette (technically Wyatt Durrette Jr.) was raised in Franklin, Virginia, and attended an all-white high school during Massive Resistance. He was captain of the baseball, basketball and football teams, but was kicked off the basketball team for working an afternoon before a game in a clothing store and refusing to follow the coach's order to apologize to his team.
While his father helped build chemical plants for DuPont, Durrette moved to Staunton, Virginia and lived with aunts while attending the Virginia Military Institute. He graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics, but also remembered incurring many demerits for wearing his hair long and failing to shine his shoes. Durrette then attended the Washington and Lee University Law School and founded the school's Conservative Society as well as irregularly published a newspaper called The Southern Conservative. He received his LL.B. degree cum laude, and then planned to teach political science, attending the Johns Hopkins University and receiving a M.A. in political science.
During the Vietnam War, Captain Durette served in the U.S. Air Force as a lawyer, assigned to California and SEA (1966–68). He later became active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He married Cheryn Durrette and had four sons and four daughters, living in Fairfax, Virginia after his military service, then moving to the Richmond suburbs in 1985. His son Wyatt Durrette III would drop out of VMI, but by 2012 became a successful country songwriter. He related that he was raised by strict Southern Baptist parents, later attended a Protestant church, and by 1985 occasionally attended Catholic services with his wife.
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