Carroll Gartin

Carrol Gartin (c. 1913 – December 19, 1966) was an American Democratic politician from Laurel in Jones County in southeastern Mississippi, who served three terms as the 22nd lieutenant governor of his state.

He served his first term from 1952 to 1960 under fellow Democrats, Governors Hugh L. White and James P. Coleman. He returned to the office for two years under Paul B. Johnson, Jr., but died midway in the term. In the 1963 campaign, Gartin accused Johnson's opponent, the Republican nominee Rubel Phillips, of having created an unnecessary general election contest, a scenario then new to Mississippi. As a former Democrat, Phillips could have instead run in the Democratic primary and voided the need for a third election, said Gartin.

Gartin was a staunch white supremacist and a former supporter of Governor and U.S. SenatorTheodore Bilbo[1].

Gartin was also a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention.

The Carroll Gartin Justice Building () in Jackson, Mississippi, a state capital, is named after him and houses Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals and the state law library.

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