White served from 1952 to 1956.
View photographs of White’s inauguration in MDAH Digital Archives.
Link to the catalog1952: Hugh L. White becomes Mississippi’s fifty-first governor
Governor Hugh L. White
1952: Chinese admitted to white public schools throughout state
Chinese schoolchildren in Bolivar County
1952: Mississippians vote to keep prohibition in effect
The vote was 140,700 to 80,800 against the referendum, which would allow individual counties to decide the matter. It would later pass in 1966.