JACKSON, Miss. ? Former Mississippi Gov. William Waller Sr., who as a district attorney twice unsuccessfully prosecuted the man eventually convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers, has died. He was 85.
Waller's law office says he died Wednesday at a hospital. The Democrat served from 1972-76 ? a time when Mississippi governors were limited to one term.
Waller also served as district attorney in Hinds County in the 1960s and twice tried to get a conviction against Byron De La Beckwith for Evers' assassination. In 1994, prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter was able to secure a guilty verdict when blacks were able to serve on the jury.
Waller ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1967 but turned things around in 1971.
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