Who was the Governor of Mississippi in 1944?

Dennis Murphree (born January 6, 1886 in Pittsboro, Mississippi; died February 9, 1949 in Pittsboro, Mississippi) succeeded Paul B. Johnson Sr. as the forty-seventh Governor of Mississippi, serving between December 26, 1943 and January 18, 1944. Following the end of Murphree's term as Governor, Thomas L. Bailey (born January 6, 1888 near Maben, Mississippi; died November 2, 1946 in Jackson, Mississippi) became the forty-eighth Governor of Mississippi, serving between January 18, 1944 and November 2, 1946.