Mississippi
Winkle, professor and Mississippi Constitution expert, dies
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — John W. Winkle III, a longtime College of Mississippi political science professor who wrote a definitive reference ebook concerning the Mississippi Structure, has died. He was 75.
In keeping with an obituary from his household, he died Sunday at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, days after having a mind hemorrhage.
Winkle was a local of Rome, Georgia. After incomes a doctoral diploma from Duke College, he started working at Ole Miss 1974. He served a number of occasions as chairman of the Political Science Division on the campus in Oxford. Among the many programs he taught have been these on constitutional regulation and civil rights and civil liberties.
Winkle obtained a number of instructing awards, and his colleagues acknowledged him with the Liberal Arts Excellence Award 4 occasions, the College Analysis Award 4 occasions and the Graduate College Analysis Award 4 occasions. In 1998, he obtained an award that goes to 1 school member in Mississippi’s college system for contributions to increased schooling.
After Winkle retired in 2013, he continued to show programs within the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors School at Ole Miss. An nameless donor not too long ago honored Winkle by naming a analysis and studying room for him on campus.
Winkle additionally taught on the U.S. Army Academy at West Level, Emory College and King’s School in London as an invited visiting professor.
Survivors embody his spouse, Ellen Meacham of Taylor, Mississippi; sons Johnny Winkle of Atlanta, Jason Winkle of Memphis, Tennessee, and Will Winkle of Taylor; brother, Joseph R. Winkle of Carmel, Indiana; and 6 grandchildren.
Funeral providers are 2 p.m. Thursday at Oxford-College United Methodist Church.