Kirk Fordice
Kirk Fordice was born on
10th February 1934 in
Memphis, Tennessee. He won the governorship of
Mississippi in the
1991 election against incumbent
Democrat Ray Mabus, making him the first
Republican to be elected governor since the
Reconstruction era. The last Republican governor was
Adelbert Ames who served from
1874-
1876. Fordice successfully won re-election in
1995.