Career
Sweat was elected to the House in 1947, at the age of 24. He served only one term at the end of which he delivered his speech.
He susequently pursued his career in law. Judge Sweat was the founder of the Mississippi Judicial College of the University of Mississippi Law Center. The writer John Grisham worked as his assistant.
According to William Safire, Sweat's nickname was derived from the phrase "sorghum top," a reference to the way in which his hair resembled a sugar cane tassel.
He died in 1996 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
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