Margaret "Wootsie" Tate (died 2006) was a state legislator who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate. She served in the house from 1984 to 1988 and in the senate from 1988 to 1992. A Democrat she lived in Picayune and represented Hancock County.[1]
She was involved in insurance bills, legislation authorizing a landfill in Hancock County, and a mandatory seat belt law (it passed in the senate). She had a son and two daughters.[2] [3] In 2003, governor Ronnie Musgrove appointed her to the Mississippi Prison Industry Corporation.[4]