The Vicksburg Post’s general manager, Jimmy Clark, has been named vice president/president-elect for daily newspapers of the Mississippi Press Association and Mississippi Press Services.

Clark and other board members were elected during the association’s annual Tri-Press Convention last month in Tunica.

Clark has worked in the newspaper business for 30 years. He was circulation manager of The Clarion-Ledger, Hattiesburg American, Mississippi Press and The Sun Herald and has been with The Vicksburg Post since 1997, first as circulation director and, since 2002, general manager.

Clark attended Clinton High School, Hinds Community College and Mississippi College. He has a bachelor’s degree in social science. He and his wife, Joanne, have three children and five grandchildren.

Wyatt Emmerich, president of Emmerich Newspapers, was elected president of the state organization.

A total of 115 newspapers are part of the MPA, founded in 1866.