# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-waller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:40:46.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-waller"
name: "Bill Waller"
slug: "bill-waller"
description: "William Lowe Waller Sr. was an American politician and attorney. A Democrat, Waller served as the 56th governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976. Born near Oxford, Mississippi to a farming family, Waller went to law school and in 1950 established a law practice in Jackson. Nine years later, he was elected District Attorney of Hinds County, Mississippi. Waller attempted to reform the position and provoked the ire of local law enforcement for aggressively prosecuting several cases. In 1964, he twice prosecuted Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, with both trials resulting in deadlocked juries. In 1967, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for governor, finishing fifth in the Democratic primary."
tagline: "American governor of Mississippi (1926-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_L._Waller%2C_Sr.%2C_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1926-10-21"
deathDate: "2011-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.26
  momentum:             3.006973370150231
  historical:           7.034776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Waller"
    title: "Bill Waller"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Waller"
    title: "Bill Waller"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump