Draft:Eugene P. Booze

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Eugene P. Booze was a businessman and community leader. He lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi and later Mound Bayou.

He co-founded the Farmer's Cooperative Mercantile Company. He was on the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League.

He was a delegate at the 1924 Republican National Convention. His wife, Mary Booze, served on the Republican National Committee. Isaiah T. Montgomery was his father-in-law. Montgomery's family feuded over his estate and Booze and his wife were charged with poisoning him. Booze was killed in an ambush in 1939. He owned extensive cotton lands and was described at Mound Bayou's wealthiest citizen at the time of his death.

Montgomery's home which his family and Estelle Montgomery feuded over is part of the Mound Bayou Historic District.

He was described as being light skinned and being able to pass as white.