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5 unusual facts about Mike Espy


1994 State of the Union Address

Mike Espy, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor.

Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital

Huddleston's grandson is Mike Espy, a former member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Committee challenged Mississippi congressional districts in Brooks v. Winter, which helped Mike Espy to become the first black congressmen from Mississippi in 100 years; it also challenged municipal and county redistricting in Greenville, Jackson, Mississippi; Annapolis, Maryland; and Petersburg, Virginia.

Mike Espy

Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz presented more than 70 witnesses in the trial and spent more than $20 million preparing and trying the case.

Espy became Assistant State Attorney General from 1984 to 1985 when he was elected as a Democrat to the 100th Congress in 1986 and then re-elected to three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1987, until his resignation January 22, 1993, having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Bill Clinton.



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