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The Harrison County Board of Supervisors managed the shoreline. Everyone paid those taxes. Mason started organizing non-violent protests in response. Jimerson and his family joined a wade-in in ...
The race for Harrison supervisor will come down to the very last vote, according to the latest election numbers provided by the Westchester County Board of Elections.
In June 1959, Mason's friend Dr. Felix H. Dunn, the first black doctor in the county, wrote to the Harrison County Board of Supervisors, asking "What laws, if any, prohibit the use of the beach facilities by Negro citizens?" The Board president's response was that property owners along the beach owned both "the beach and water from the shore ...
In the county’s local municipalities, voters will also select township supervisors, borough council members and their local school board directors. Here’s the list of candidates who are on the ...
Holleman served as Attorney for the Harrison County Board of Supervisors and School District for 18 and 15 years, respectively. In 1969 and 1970, he was elected President of the State bar association in Mississippi. In 1995, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Law Award from the Mississippi State Bar Association.
The name "Board of Supervisors" was changed to "Board of Commissioners" in 1970 to avoid confusion with township government (where the term "Supervisor" was still used). In New York, the new boards were called "county legislatures" (and their members, "county legislators"), but not every county has adopted this system.
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Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 208,621. [1] Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. [2] The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison. [3] Harrison County is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area.