Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Prentiss Lafayette Walker (August 23, 1917 - June 5, 1998) was a farmer, businessman and politician. In 1964 he was noted as the first Republican in the 20th century to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi. When he ran in 1966 for US senator as an Independent against incumbent Democrat James O. Eastland, his support included African Americans from southwest Mississippi, who had entered the political process after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They voted in protest against the state's Democratic Regulars.. }
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- Prentiss_Walker abstract "Prentiss Lafayette Walker (August 23, 1917 - June 5, 1998) was a farmer, businessman and politician. In 1964 he was noted as the first Republican in the 20th century to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi. When he ran in 1966 for US senator as an Independent against incumbent Democrat James O. Eastland, his support included African Americans from southwest Mississippi, who had entered the political process after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They voted in protest against the state's Democratic Regulars.".