Longtime Mississippi business leader Leland Speed dies

over 4 years in Washington Times

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Leland R. Speed, a prominent Mississippi businessman who twice served as the state's economic development director, died Wednesday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Speed died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease, his son Warren Speed told WLBT-TV. Speed was in his late 80s. ...

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