Political Career
Lott's success as a legislator was already evident in his undergraduate years at Ole Miss. Lott led the effort at the 1962 national convention of the Sigma Nu fraternity to defeat the Civil Rights era amendment proposed by the Stanford and Brown University chapters to end mandatory racial exclusion by the fraternity. Lott's side prevailed 215 to 76, and Stanford's chapter subsequently seceded from the fraternity.
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“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
—Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)