John W. Kyle
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John William Kyle (August 21, 1891 – 1965) was an American politician and judge from Mississippi.
Kyle was born in Batesville, Mississippi, as the oldest of eight children, to Mary Francis née Heflin and Albert Sidney Kyle.[1]
He was a Rhodes Scholar and served multiple terms as a state senator for the district including Sardis (which, in the previous century, John C. Kyle had also represented in the senate).
After serving as state attorney general, he became in 1950 a commissioner (judge) of the state supreme court, serving until 1965.
John W. Kyle State Park, in Mississippi, is named after him.
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- Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court
- American Rhodes Scholars
- Mississippi state senators
- 1891 births
- 1965 deaths
- 20th-century American judges
- People from Batesville, Mississippi
- 20th-century American politicians
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