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Mary Allen Jolley, the longtime trusted aide to the late U.S. Rep. Carl Elliott, who worked tirelessly to improve Walker County and the nation at large, died peacefully on Dec.

Two exalted figures in Mississippi politics called for Americans to sit down with each other, have difficult-but-civil conversations and work to better the nation as Mississippi State officials formally celebrated the dedication and opening of their political papers now housed at the university.