William Hemingway (politician)

Hemingway was born on July 19, 1869, in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi, to Colonel William Linn Hemingway and Mary Elizabeth McCain Hemingway.^[1][2] He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1889 and was admitted to the bar in 1897.^[1] He was the Jackson city attorney from 1909 to 1921.^[1] He was also a trustee and secretary of the Mississippi Institution for the Blind from 1912 to 1921.^[1] He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives to represent Hinds County in 1920, but he resigned soon after election to be the state's Assistant Attorney General.^[1] He was later appointed Law Professor at the University of Mississippi, replacing the deceased Leonard J. Farley.^[3] He died on November 5, 1937.^[2]

Hemingway married Grace Hyer in 1901.^[1] Her father, William Fisk Hyer, was a member of the Mississippi Legislature in 1871.^[1] William and Grace had several children, but all of them died in infancy.^[1]