The 1971 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on 2 November 1971 for the post of Governor of Mississippi. The incumbent governor, Democrat John Bell Williams, was ineligible due to term limit

Brookhaven is a city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States, 55 miles south of the state capital of Jackson. The population was 11,674 people at the 2020 U.S. census. It is the county seat of L