JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, ...
He built Mississippi’s Republican Party into a conservative powerhouse, making himself a regional power broker in the process. By Clay Risen Clarke Reed, a courtly Mississippi conservative who pushed ...
Clarke T. Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Dec. 8 at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. He was 96 ...
FILE - Clarke Reed, who was chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966-76, discusses the contested 1976 Republican National Convention in Greenville, Miss., on April 6, 2016. (AP ...