William Winter doesn’t take himself too seriously. Just ask him about the time he asked his wife Elise to marry him – at a baseball game. “It took her four years to say yes,” he says with a grin. Why? “I think she did some checking into my background.” Maybe she figured out she’d be with a lifelong politician? Six decades later she notes: “I often remind him, that 62 years, most of it in politics, ‘ought to count for a lot.”

Governor Winter celebrates his 90th birthday next month and 65 years in public service.

In days of old, a farmer planted his crops in the spring, tended them through the summer and harvested in the fall with a well deserved winter break. But growing seasons have changed – and so have the seasons of politics. That’s the analogy that a busy Brad Chism gives to explain his political consulting firm, Zata|3. He says politics is a year round business that just gets busier every election cycle.

Justis, Debra and Ariana Gibbs met members the Mississippi congressional delegation Tuesday in Washington D.C.

The family will attend President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night as guests of the delgates.

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