Margaret Tate

This article is about the Mississippi politician. For the English opera singer, see Maggie Teyte.

Margaret "Wootsie" Tate (died 2006) was a state legislator who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate. She served in the house from 1984 to 1988 and in the senate from 1988 to 1992. A Democrat she lived in Picayune and represented Hancock County.[1]

She was involved in insurance bills, legislation authorizing a landfill in Hancock County, and a mandatory seat belt law (it passed in the senate). She had a son and two daughters.[2][3] In 2003, governor Ronnie Musgrove appointed her to the Mississippi Prison Industry Corporation.[4]

  1. ^ Women State and Territorial Legislators by Elizabeth M. Cox page 167
  2. ^ Elkins, Ashley (10 June 2006). "Former state legislator dies at age 72". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
  3. ^ "Obituary for Margaret Tate". Hattiesburg American. 10 June 2006. p. 28.
  4. ^ https://da.mdah.ms.gov/musgrove/pdfs/5407.pdf