James A. Kelly

Senator James A. Kelly, Jr. was one of the most powerful legislators of his day as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means during the 1970's. An accountant by profession, it was said at the time that no one in state government understood the state budget is intimately as Jim Kelly did. He used his enormous influence to help the people and communities he served as State Representative, and then Senator from Oxford. When I first entered the Legislature, he was very helpful to me,...