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Leaving his coaching staff before the season kicked off was assistant Rick Ray, who accepted the Mississippi State head coaching position, which gives Painter three former assistants that are currently head coaches at the division I level.
Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.
Ronald George (Ron) Polk (born January 12, 1944) was a long-time head baseball coach at Mississippi State and is considered the "Father of SEC Baseball".
First DJs were Program Director Bill Tanner (who went on to Y-100 in Miami and KLVE in Los Angeles), Butch Luke (former Mississippi State football player and later continued as a big local personality) and Jon Robin (from WACR in Columbus).
Adam Lewis Bingaman (1790–1869), Mississippi state representative and president of the Mississippi State Senate
As a senior he led Mississippi State to the Music City Bowl where they defeated Wake Forest 23-17, marking the first back to back bowl appearances for the Bulldogs since the 1999-2000 seasons.
Due to advocacy from Dorothea Dix, on March 8, 1882 the Mississippi State Legislature passed legislation establishing the East Mississippi State Insane Asylum.
The 1974 Sun Bowl played December 28, 1974 between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels
Fred was recommended to the Mississippi State College Board for the honor by current Mississippi State University President, Dr. Mark E. Keenum.
George Duke Humphrey (1897–1973), president of the Mississippi State College, 1934–1945
A graduate of Mississippi State, Champion spent two seasons as a linebacker and offensive and defensive tackle for the New York Yanks of the National Football League.
During the 1930s, Cain worked with the Mississippi State Forest Service (now Mississippi Forestry Commission) and was Project Superintendent at the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-16 in the Ramsey Springs Community.
Hull was selected to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, inducted into the Mississippi State University Sports Hall of Fame in 2000, received the Ralph C. Wilson Distinguished Service Award in 2001, was selected to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and was the 19th inductee to the Wall of Fame at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo in 2002.
Mississippi State's most successful coaches include Babe McCarthy, Richard Williams, and Rick Stansbury.
After leading Mississippi State College to a 20–10–2 record in three years and an appearance in the 1937 Orange Bowl, Sasse stunned the students and players by resigning from his head coach's duties, following a doctor's orders after a sudden nervous breakdown.
Richard E. Holmes (born 1944), first African-American student to enroll at Mississippi State University
He helped to establish the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program at Mississippi State, which now goes by the name Montgomery Leadership Program in honor of former congressman Sonny Montgomery.
Locals claim that Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the intersection of Mississippi state highways 1 and 8, on the south end of town, and that he tells this story metaphorically in "Cross Road Blues".
In 1973, Scott and Jimmy G. Shoalmire, historian and archivist at Mississippi State, co-authored The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership. based on papers from the Henry A. Wallace Collection at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Freeman's son, Brad, was a four-year letterman on the Mississippi State baseball team and helped the Bulldogs reach the College World Series in 1997 and 1998, and is now a field judge in the SEC.
In it Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, noting that the hire was in Mississippi, a state often regarded as having the poorest civil rights record, said that "For Mississippi State to place the fortunes of its team in black hands is more than welcome, however long it has taken."
Her nephew Jeff Malone was an All-America basketball student-athlete at Mississippi State and NBA standout for many years.
William L. Giles (1911–1997), former president of Mississippi State University, 1966-1976
WMAB-FM, a radio station (89.9 FM) licensed to Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States