Personal Life
A fluent Choctaw speaker, Miko Beasley Denson was born in the Conehatta Community and raised in the Standing Pine Community of Choctaw, Mississippi. He is the son of the late David Denson and Bema Steve York. He graduated from Choctaw Central High School and earned an associate’s degree from Hinds Community College and Mississippi State University.
He has been married to his wife Lena John Denson of Red Water and Pearl River, for 36 years. The couple has two sons, Michael David and Darren Keith, one daughter, Lane, a son in law, Oga, and six grandchildren. He has two sisters, Angela and Rita, and a brother, Douglas Sam.
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