JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A state office building in downtown Jackson will be named for a Mississippi congressman who died in 2015.
Gov. Phil Bryant last week signed Senate Bill 2564 , to designate the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality headquarters as the Patrick Alan Nunnelee building.
Nunnelee, who went by Alan, was a Republican from Tupelo. He spent 16 years in the state Senate starting in 1995, eventually becoming chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
He unseated a Democratic incumbent in north Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District in November 2010, and took office in January 2011.
Nunnelee died in February 2015 after experiencing several months of health problems, including a brain tumor. He was 56.
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