Edmund L. Brunini, Sr. papers

Edmund Brunini, Sr. was born in 1911. He was a Vicksburg, Mississippi native with degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Mississippi School of Law. He was an associate of many governors, U.S. Senators and Representatives and state legislators from Mississippi, including U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis. He held appointments for public affairs under Governors Hugh White and J. P. Coleman of Mississippi. A member of the A&I Board and the State Natural Resources Commission from 1956-57, he was appointed by Governor John Bell Williams to aid relief efforts after Hurricane Camille in 1969, serving as chairman of the Governor's Emergency Council. He was the first chairman of the Mississippi Ethics Commission. Before retirement, he was the senior partner of the Jackson law firm, Brunini, Grantham, Grower and Hewes. He was a member of various bar associations, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He died in 1992.