John Lafayette Pearson III (March 7, 1926 – June 30, 2021) was an American judge and politician who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and as mayor of Rosedale, Mississippi.

A nephew of Speaker Walter Sillers Jr., Pearson was elected to the House in 1966 when Sillers died in 1966.

[1] Pearson married the former Katherine Myres in 1955.

They live in the house his grandfather, Walter Sillers, built, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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