Alney Dale Danks Jr.[1] (August 27, 1939 – June 9, 2021)[2] was an American attorney who served as the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1977 to 1989.
[2] He graduated from Murrah High School and enrolled in Millsaps College in 1957.
[5] In June 1959, he dropped out of Millsaps College and married Carolyn Carl.
[2] In 1977, he ran for the mayor office of Jackson, Mississippi as a Democrat, beating Republican candidate Doug Shanks.
[9] Danks stopped being the mayor of Jackson in 1989, when he lost in a runoff election to J. Kane Ditto.