State Senate: | Mississippi |
District: | 11th |
Termstart: | January 1904 |
Termend: | January 1908 |
Predecessor: | Elias A. Rowan |
Successor: | Elias A. Rowan |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1873 |
Birth Place: | Crystal Springs, MS |
Party: | Democrat |
Alma Mater: | Millsaps College |
Myron Sibbie McNeil (September 28, 1873 - buried October 1, 1944) was a Democratic Mississippi State Senator, representing the 11th District, from 1904 to 1908.
Myron Sibbie McNeil was born on September 28, 1873, in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.[1] [2] He was the son of Jarrot Wesley McNeil and Lucy (Bob) McNeil. His ancestors came from Scotland.[3] He was educated in Crystal Springs elementary schools.[4] He received a B. S. from Lexington Normal College. He also graduated from the Millsaps College law school, where he received a Bachelor of Laws degree.
He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and began practicing law thereafter. He was nominated to represent the 11th district, composed of Copiah County,[5] as a Democrat, in the Mississippi State Senate in August 1903 for the 1904–08 term, and was elected in November 1903. Afterwards, he continued practicing law as an attorney in Hazlehurst.[6] [7] He died of a heart attack in September 1844, and he was buried in Hazlehurst on October 1, 1944.[8] [9]
McNeil was a Methodist. On July 6, 1904, he married Deborah Martin. They had at least 1 child together, a daughter, who survived Deborah when she died in 1949.[10]