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1860 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 1860 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Mississippi was won by the 14th Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge (SD–Kentucky), running with Senator Joseph Lane, with 59.00% of the popular vote, against Senator John Bell (CU–Tennessee), running with the 15th Governor of Massachusetts
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James Eastland


handily carry Mississippi, Eastland did not endorse the Democratic presidential candidate, George McGovern of South Dakota, who was considered a liberal. Four years later, Eastland supported the candidacy of fellow Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia, rather than Nixon's successor, President Gerald R. Ford. Eastland's former press secretary, Larry Speakes, a Mississippi native, served as a press spokesman for Gerald Ford and Ford's running mate, US Senator Robert J. Dole. During his last Senate term, Eastland served as President pro tempore of the
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Herbert H. Lehman


Party urging their members not to vote for any candidate. In 1950, Lehman was re-elected to a full term, running on Democratic and Liberal lines and opposed by the American Labor Party. Lehman was one of two US senators who were opposed to nominating Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (The other was Wayne Morse of Oregon.) He was also an early and vocal opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). Lehman was one of the most liberal
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1988 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 1988 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 1988. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Mississippi was won by incumbent United States Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, who was running against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as Vice President, and Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Mississippi weighed
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1996 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 1996 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 5, 1996. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1996 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Mississippi was won by Kansas Senator Bob Dole, who was running against incumbent United States President Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Clinton ran a second time with former Tennessee Senator and Al Gore as Vice President, and Dole ran with former New York Congressman Jack
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2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi


for Growth. Chris McDaniel, a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate, considered challenging Palazzo in the primary, but chose instead to run for the United States Senate. Taylor, who served in the U.S. House from 1989 to 2011, has switched parties, and ran for the seat as a Republican. Tavish Kelly, Tom Carter, and Ron Vincent, who was a candidate for the seat in 2012, also ran against Palazzo. Democrats Trish Causey and Matthew Moore, who was the nominee for the seat in 2012
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Hubert D. Stephens


Hubert Durrett Stephens (July 2, 1875March 14, 1946) was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Mississippi from 1923 until 1935. Stephens was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi law school and soon began to practice law in New Albany. Stephens served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1921; in his final term he did not run for re-election, but he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1934, he
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1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Mississippi was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 93.56 percent of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John Bricker, with 6.44 percent
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Lamar, Mississippi


Lamar is an unincorporated community in Benton County, Mississippi. It is located along Mississippi Highway 7 in western Benton County. Although it is unincorporated, Lamar has a post office, with the ZIP code of 38642. The nearly abandoned Mississippi Central Railroad runs through Lamar, and is only used rarely for freight trafficking. Lamar shares its ZIP code with the nearby community of Slayden. Lamar was named in honor of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, member of the United States Senate from Mississippi. Sarah Thomley is the Mayor of Lamar,
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Hiram Rhodes Revels


elected by popular vote until a constitutional amendment. In 1870 Revels was elected by a vote of 81 to 15 in the Mississippi State Senate to finish the term of one of the state's two seats in the US Senate, which had been left vacant since the Civil War. Previously, it had been held by Albert G. Brown, who withdrew from the US Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded. When Revels arrived in Washington, D.C., southern Democrats in office opposed seating him in the Senate. For the two days of
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Videt Carmichael


Fredie Videt Carmichael (born February 26, 1950) is a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate for District 33, which encompasses Lauderdale and Clarke counties in the eastern portion of Mississippi. He first entered the Senate in 2000. Carmichael is a native of Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from Clarkdale High School in Lauderdale County and obtained two degrees in education from Mississippi State University at Starkville. Carmichael was a teacher, coach, and principal prior to running for office. He was first elected to the Senate in 1999 as
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2015 Mississippi elections


construction company project manager, the son of former Commissioner Nielsen Cochran and nephew of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran Neither filed to run. Bruce Burton and State Representative Cecil Brown are running for the Democrats. Robert Amos originally qualified as a Democratic candidate for this seat, but switched to run for the Central District of the Transportation Commission. Incumbent Republican Commissioner Steve Renfroe, who was appointed to the office in September 2013 after Leonard Bentz resigned to become executive director of the South Mississippi Planning and Development District, is not running for election to
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Ernie Chambers


Ernest William Chambers (born July 10, 1937) is an American politician who represents North Omaha's 11th District in the Nebraska State Legislature. Chambers is the longest-serving state senator in the history of Nebraska. He is the only African-American to have run for governor and the US Senate in Nebraska's history. Chambers was born in the Near North Side neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, to father Malcolm Chambers, a local minister, and mother Lillian Chambers. Chambers' father's family originally comes from Mississippi,
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Trent Lott


would run for a fourth term. He became Senate Majority Whip when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995. In June 1996, he ran for the post of Senate Majority Leader to succeed Republican Bob Dole, who had resigned from the Senate to concentrate on his presidential campaign. Lott faced his Mississippi colleague Thad Cochran, the then-Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. Cochran cast himself as an "institutionalist" and who would held to rebuild public trust in Congress through compromise over conflict. Lott promised a "
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Mississippi Democratic Party


landscape, and its Mississippi leaders resumed their place in the ranks of the national Democratic Party with no repercussions, even though all seven incumbent Congressmen and Senator James O. Eastland had run on the Dixiecrat ballot with Thurmond and Governor Wright. In the fall of 1954, after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Mississippi politicians in the state legislature reacted by approving and ratifying a constitutional amendment that would abolish the public school system. This provision, on the other hand, was never used. Soon, Mississippi became the focal point
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2000 United States presidential election in Mississippi


2nd district. , this is the last election in which Jasper County voted for the Republican candidate and the last election in which Yalobusha County voted for the Democratic candidate. Technically the voters of Mississippi cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Mississippi is allocated 7 electors because it has 5 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 7 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate
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John Isaac Guion


Guion became acting governor and served until November, when his Senate term expired. He had not run for reelection, and the Speaker of the Mississippi House had also not run for reelection. Since no one in the line of succession could assume the governorship, the legislature subsequently chose James Whitfield as an interim replacement, and he served until the term of the new governor started in 1852. Guion had not run for reelection to the State Senate because he had run for judge of the Mississippi District Circuit Court in Jackson. He
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2008 United States presidential election in Mississippi


four congressional districts, including two districts held by Democrats. Technically the voters of Mississippi cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Mississippi is allocated 6 electors because it has 4 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 6 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 6 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then
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Sonny Montgomery


Bronze Star Medal with "V" for VALOR device, Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Montgomery represented part of Meridian in the Mississippi State Senate between 1956 and 1966. He was elected to Congress from what was then the 4th District in 1966. Prentiss Walker, the first Republican elected to either house of Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, had given up the seat after one term to run for the United States Senate against James O. Eastland. Montgomery defeated Lewis McAllister, also of Meridian, who had been the
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2015 Mississippi elections


a full term in office. Sam Britton and State Senator Tony Smith are running for the Republican nomination. State Senator Philip Moran and Hancock County Supervisor Steve Seymour ruled out running and 2011 candidate Travis Rose chose not to run again. Thomas Blanton was a potential Democratic candidate but he did not file and neither did any other Democrat. Incumbent Republican Mike Tagert, who won a special election in 2011 following the death of Democratic Commissioner Bill Minor, is running for re-election to a second full term in office. He is
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Fielding L. Wright


he would never become a "dang politician". Wright studied law at the University of Alabama, then went on to open a law office in Rolling Fork, in partnership with his uncle. Wright turned down several opportunities to run for public office before finally agreeing to run for the Mississippi Senate in 1928. He won that election and, four years later, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In his second term as a representative he was elected Speaker of the House, and used his position to promote and
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Brice Wiggins


Brice Wiggins is an American lawyer and politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate. Brice Wiggins was born on August 8, 1971 in Irving, Texas. Wiggins was educated at the Pascagoula High School. He graduated from Tulane University. He received a law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law. Wiggins is an attorney. He served as Assistant District Attorney for seven years prior to running for senate. Wiggins has served as a Republican member of the Mississippi State Senate since 2012. As early
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2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi


the states's partisan lean, as well as the 20-point margin of victory of Roger Wicker in his senatorial election, held concurrently with the first round of the special election in which the combined GOP candidates won 58% to the combined Dem total of 42%. Espy's 46.4% of the vote is the best Democratic performance in a Mississippi senate election since the 1982 election. The victory made Hyde-Smith the first woman ever elected to the Senate from Mississippi. During the run-off campaign, while appearing with cattle
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2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi


Party nominee. Barbara Dale Washer, a teacher, ran as the Reform Party nominee. Angela McGlowan, a Fox News political analyst; and Henry Ross, a former mayor of Eupora, also ran for the Republican nomination. Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven who ran unsuccessfully in both 2008 elections, said in March 2009 that he would not run again in 2010. Merle Flowers, a member of the Mississippi Senate, met with the National Republican Congressional Committee in June 2009, but ultimately decided not to run. Childers
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Craighead County, Arkansas


to be named "Crowley County" in honor of Crowley's Ridge which runs through the center of the county. Senator Thomas Craighead represented Mississippi County, and opposed the bill because the farmland it took from Mississippi County (commonly known as the Buffalo Island area) was a major source of property taxes for the county. One day while Senator Craighead was away from the floor, Senator Jones amended the bill to change the county's name to "Craighead County". The Senate, thinking it was a compromise, approved the
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2018 United States Senate elections


The 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018. 33 of the 100 seats were contested in regular elections while two others were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies in Minnesota and Mississippi. The winners were elected to six-year terms running from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2025. Senate Democrats had 26 seats up for election (including the seats of two independents who caucus with them) while Senate Republicans had nine seats up for election. To maintain their working majority of 50
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Charlie Ross (Mississippi politician)


Charlie Ross is an American politician and attorney who lives in Brandon, Mississippi. He served as Senator from District 20 in the Mississippi Senate until 2007. District 20 comprises parts of Madison and Rankin Counties. Ross was first elected to the Senate in 1997 after serving as the representative from District 59 in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Prior to his legislative service, he served as the Chairman of the Rankin County Republican Executive Committee. In 2008, Ross ran for Congress in Mississippi's 3rd congressional district, but was defeated in
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Clarke Reed


held by a Mississippi Republican. Freshman Representative Prentiss Walker of Mize from Mississippi's 4th congressional district vacated the post to run unsuccessfully against Democratic U.S. Senator James O. Eastland. Walker's House seat was held thereafter for decades by the Democrat Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery of Meridian, who in 1966 defeated the Republican State Representative Lewis McAllister, also of Meridian. Thereafter, Montgomery rarely had significant opposition and carried bipartisan backing. After 1966, the Republicans did not win an election in Mississippi for another U.S. House seat for six years
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Council of Conservative Citizens


. George Wallace Jr., an Alabama Public Service Commissioner and former State Treasurer who was then running for Lieutenant Governor, and Sonny Landham, an actor, spoke at the conference. Mississippi is the only state that has major politicians who are openly CofCC members, including State Senators and State Representatives. The CofCC once claimed 34 members in the Mississippi legislature. The CofCC considers itself a traditionalist group opposing liberals and what they refer to as mainstream conservatives; it supports national self-determination, immigration restriction, federalism, and home rule
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Shawn O'Hara


for his frequently running for mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He sought the office in every city election since 1989. O'Hara first ran for Governor of Mississippi in 1991 as the Reform Party candidate. He received 11,253 votes, or 1.58%. He ran as the Reform Party candidate for the United States Senate in Mississippi in 2000. He received 7,315 votes, or 0.74% of the vote. In 2002 he ran for the U.S. Senate again and was the lone challenger to Thad Cochran. He received 97,226 votes, or 15.42
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2014 United States Senate election in Mississippi


the end of the year. You don't want to rush into these things." On November 12, he announced that he would reveal his plans by the end of the month. On December 6, he confirmed that he would run. Cochran's fundraising ability, powerful Senate committee assignments, and very high approval ratings meant that he was considered "unbeatable". Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey Cole said that "in the very likely event that he does [run], we don't foresee a major Democratic challenger
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2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi


The 2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi was held on November 4, 2008. This election was held on the same day of Thad Cochran's re-election bid in the United States Senate election in Mississippi, 2008. The winner of this special election served the rest of the Senate term, which ended in January 2013. Unlike most senate elections, this was a non-partisan election in which the candidate who got a majority of the vote wins, and if the first place candidate did not get 50%
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1856 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 1856 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 4, 1856. Mississippi voters chose seven electors to represent the state in the Electoral College, which chose the president and vice president. Mississippi was won by Senator James Buchanan (D–Pennsylvania), running with Representative and future presidential candidate in the 1860 presidential election John C. Breckinridge, with 59.44% of the popular vote, against the 13th president of the United States Millard Fillmore (A–New York), running with the 2nd United States Ambassador to
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Lochinvar (Pontotoc, Mississippi)


Chickasaw County in the Mississippi legislature in 1857, 1878, 1886, and 1904–1908. In December 1909 Governor Edmond F. Noel appointed him to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Senator Anselm J. McLaurin until the state legislature could elect a new senator in February 1910. (This was prior to popular election of US Senators.) James Gordon had inherited Lochinvar when his father died in 1867. Lochinvar remained in the Gordon family until 1900, when J. D. Fontaine, an attorney in Pontotoc, Mississippi, bought it to use as a
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Nic Lott


chairman for the Mississippi College Republicans. Lott ran unsuccessfully for the Mississippi State Senate in 2007, having lost that race by sixty-eight votes. Lott currently serves in Governor Phil Bryant's administration as director of special compliance operations for renewal recovery. An alumnus of the U. S. Senate's African-American Leadership Summit, Lott is included in "Who's Who in Black Mississippi", Top 40 Under 40 by the "Mississippi Business Journal", "VIP Magazines "Top 10 Fascinating People" and the "Business Chronicles
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Kemper County, Mississippi


had cost overruns. It is designed as a model project to use gasification and carbon-capture technologies at this scale. United States Senator John C. Stennis, who served from 1947 to 1988, was born in Kemper County. Another Kemper County native was Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald. East Mississippi Community College is located in Kemper County in the town of Scooba, at the junction of US 45 and Mississippi Highway 16. In this county the land was developed in the 19th century by white planters for cotton cultivation, based on
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James Eastland


Johnson appointed James Eastland on the condition that he would not run later that year in the special election to complete the term, ensuring that no candidate would have the advantage of incumbency. Eastland kept his word, and the election was won by 2nd District Congressman Wall Doxey. In 1942, Eastland was one of three candidates who challenged Doxey for a full term. Doxey had the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mississippi's senior US Senator, Theodore G. Bilbo, but Eastland defeated him in the Democratic primary. At the
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John C. Stennis


John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901April 23, 1995) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last eight years. He retired from the Senate in 1989, and is, to date, the last Democrat to have been a U.S. Senator from Mississippi. While attending law school, Stennis won a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives, holding office from 1928 to 1932. After serving as a
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United States congressional delegations from Mississippi


elected at-large. Starting with the 34th Congress, the new seat was apportioned as a fifth district. For these three decades, Mississippi had eight seats, the most it has ever been apportioned. , there is one living former U.S. Senator from Mississippi. The most recently deceased former Senator is Thad Cochran, who died on May 30, 2019. , there are twelve living former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. The most recently deceased former Representative is Thad Cochran, who died on May 30,
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Roger Wicker


Roger Frederick Wicker (born July 5, 1951) is an American attorney and politician who is the senior United States Senator from Mississippi, in office since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the Mississippi State Senate. Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Wicker is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and the University of Mississippi School of Law. Wicker was an officer in the United States Air Force from 1976 to 1980 and later served as a
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Jeanne Shaheen


from the University of Mississippi. She taught high school in Mississippi and moved to New Hampshire in 1973, where she taught school and, with her husband, owned a store that sold used jewelry. A Democrat, she worked on several campaigns, including Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, and as the New Hampshire campaign manager for Gary Hart in 1984, before running for office in 1990, when she was elected to the state Senate. In 1996, 1998 and 2000 she was elected governor of New Hampshire. In April
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Sean Tindell


University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Tindell graduated from USM in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree and then in 1998 received his Master's degree in business administration. Tindell then attended Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson and earned his law degree in 2001. Tindell was an Assistant District Attorney from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 Sean Tindell ran for County Attorney in Harrison County and was defeated in a narrow race. In 2011, Tindell successfully sought to fill the seat of long time senator Billy Hewes, who was running for
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2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi


Senate campaign. Former Governor Ronnie Musgrove, former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy, former Jackson mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr., former Governor Ray Mabus, and former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore were all considered potential Democratic candidates. Of the five, only Musgrove decided to run. Another Democrat, former congressman Ronnie Shows also decided to run, but withdrew on February 19, 2008 after determining that he could not raise enough funds to effectively campaign against Wicker and Musgrove. Shows gave his endorsement to Musgrove. There was
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1956 Washington gubernatorial election


The Washington gubernatorial election of 1956 took place on November 6, 1956, between Democratic state senator Albert D. Rosellini and Republican lieutenant governor Emmett T. Anderson. Rosellini defeated Anderson during the general election, becoming the first Italian American to lead a U.S. state west of the Mississippi River. Incumbent Republican governor Arthur B. Langlie declined to run for a fourth term, instead challenging Warren Magnuson for a U.S. Senate seat. Incumbent governor Arthur B. Langlie, a Republican who had served three terms, announced on May 2 that he would not run
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2014 United States Senate elections


the runoff election by 51% to 49%, with the help of Democratic voters eligible to vote in the state's open primaries who chose Cochran as their preferred Republican. McDaniel filed a lawsuit to challenge the results of the run-off, but the challenge was rejected on appeal by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Former Congressman Travis Childers was the Democratic nominee. Six-term incumbent Democrat Max Baucus, the longest-serving senator in Montana's history, had been re-elected with 73% of the vote in
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1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi


Truman was the last President who was unaffected by the term limit imposed under the 22nd Amendment, but decided as early as 1950 that he would not seek another term. Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson II, grandson of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I, accepted the Democratic nomination for president in Truman’s place, selecting Alabama Senator John Sparkman, a Southern Democrat, as his running mate. Mississippi in this time period was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party was virtually nonexistent as a result of
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Stanford Morse


Pringle of Biloxi and Lewis Leslie McAllister, Jr., of Meridan, both in the state House, and Seelig Wise, a cotton and soybean farmer from Coahoma County, who was elected to the state Senate seat based about Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi. In his 1967 gubernatorial race against U.S. Representative John Bell Williams, then of Mississippi's 3rd congressional district, Phillips abandoned his previous conservative positions and ran as a Rockefeller Republican, even carrying the endorsement of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of neighboring Arkansas. Phillips had no running mate in 1967,
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2018 United States Senate elections


2007 and won a special election in 2008 to serve the remainder of Trent Lott's term. He ran. David Baria won the Democratic nomination in a run-off on June 26. Wicker was easily re-elected. Seven-term Republican Thad Cochran, who won re-election with 59.9% of the vote in 2014, announced that he would resign since April 1, 2018 due to health reasons. Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi, announced on March 21, 2018, that he would appoint Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner
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2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi


, a runoff election with the top two candidates would have been held. In the election, no run off was necessary as Republican nominee and incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker won election to finish the term. On December 18, 2007, U.S. Senator Trent Lott resigned in his fourth-term to pursue "something else" in the private sector. He ended up starting his own lobbying firm. On December 31, 2007, Mississippi governor Haley Barbour appointed U.S. Representative Roger Wicker to the vacant seat. Wicker then began his
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List of lieutenant governors of Mississippi


This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi. The Office of Lieutenant Governor was abolished by the Constitution of 1832, and the duties of President of the Senate were incorporated into a separate office. The Constitution of 1868 re-established the office of Lieutenant Governor. This office also re-assumed the duties of President of the Senate 1. Amy Tuck switched to the Republican Party in December 2002. , there are five former lieutenant governors of Mississippi who are currently living at this time, the oldest lieutenant governor of Mississippi
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List of African-American United States Senators


to serve, was elected by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War. Some Democratic members of the United States Senate opposed his being seated based on the court case "Dred Scott v. Sandford" (1857) by the Supreme Court of the United States, claiming that Revels did not meet the citizenship requirement, but the majority of senators voted to seat him. The Mississippi state legislature elected Blanche Bruce in 1875, but Republicans lost power of the Mississippi state legislature in 1876.
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Ben Toledano


who was not running against an incumbent, were Gil Carmichael in Mississippi, Winton Blount in Alabama, and Wayne H. Babbitt in Arkansas, out of deference to Senators James Eastland, John Sparkman, and John Little McClellan, respectively. Coincidentally, Toledano was the only Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Louisiana between 1962 and 1984. The 1984 candidate, Robert Max Ross (1933-2009) of Richland Parish, carried no party organizational support. In 1986, however, the state GOP coalesced around then U.S. Representative Henson Moore of Louisiana
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Meridian, Mississippi


all the way to the Canada–US border. Transnational route which runs north through Columbus, Mississippi, to the US-Canada border and south through Quitman, Mississippi, to Mobile, Alabama, and the Gulf of Mexico. Runs west through Jackson, Mississippi, to Dallas, Texas, and east through Demopolis, Alabama, all the way to Tybee Island, Georgia and the Atlantic Ocean. Mississippi Highway 19 Runs north to West, Mississippi, and south to the Mississippi-Alabama border, where it continues as Alabama
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Choctaw


politician. He was elected as a Mississippi representative and senator, was a fixture of Mississippi high society, and a personal friend of Jefferson Davis. He represented his county in the state house for two terms and served as a state senator for one term. Some of the elite used Latin language, an indulgence used by some politicians. LeFlore, in defense of his heritage, spoke in the Choctaw language and asked the Senate floor which was better understood, Latin or Choctaw. Midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849)
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1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi


disenfranchisement among poor whites and African Americans, including voter intimidation against those who refused to vote Democrat. The 1948 election split the National Democratic Party and segregationist Democrats over the issue of civil rights for African Americans. In the 1952 election, Stevenson, a moderate on race issues, selected the segregationist Senator Sparkman as his running mate to avoid another split in the Democratic vote. The Stevenson-Sparkman ticket carried Mississippi and its eight electoral votes in a landslide against the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket with 60.44 percent of the popular vote,
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Greenwood LeFlore


lands in Mississippi to the US government and agreed to removal to Indian Territory. It also provided that Choctaw who chose to stay in Mississippi would have reserved lands, but the United States government failed to follow through on this provision. While many of the leaders realized removal was inevitable, others opposed the treaty and made death threats against LeFlore. He stayed in Mississippi, where he settled in Carroll County and accepted United States citizenship. He was elected to the state government as a legislator and senator in the 1840s. During the
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Victoria Gray Adams


Senator John Stennis, the Mississippi Democrat who at the time had been in the Senate for 16 years. She announced that she and others from the tiny Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, of which she was a founding member, along with Fannie Lou Hamer and Annie Devine, would challenge the power of white segregationist politicians like Stennis. The time had come, she said, to pay attention "to the Negro in Mississippi, who had not even had the leavings from the American political table." During the Freedom Summer of 1964
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2016 United States presidential election in Mississippi


The 2016 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Mississippi voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. On March 8, 2016, in the presidential primaries,
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Mississippi State Senate


The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate is composed of 52 senators representing an equal amount of constituent districts, with 54,704 people per district (2000 figures). Senators serve four-year terms with no term limits. Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions and boards. The Senate convenes in the State Capitol in Jackson.
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Delta State University


Delta State University (DSU) is a public university in Cleveland, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. DSU is one of eight publicly funded universities in the state. The school was established in 1924 by the State of Mississippi, using the facilities of the former Bolivar County Agricultural High School, which consisted of three buildings in Cleveland. On February 19, 1924, Senators William B. Roberts and Arthur Marshall cosponsored Senate Bill No. 236, which established Delta State Teachers College, which Mississippi Governor Henry L. Whitfield signed on April
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Doug Anderson (politician)


Doug Anderson (1939 – April 13, 2013) was an American educator and politician from Mississippi. Anderson, a Democrat, was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1976. He served in that office until 1980, when he won election to the Mississippi State Senate. He served in the State Senate until 1992. Elected in 1976, Anderson, Horace Buckley and Fred Banks were among the first four African-Americans elected to the Mississippi Legislature in the twentieth century after Robert G. Clark, Jr., who was
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History of Mississippi


. Planters recruited Chinese workers for agriculture from 1900 to 1930, but the newcomers did not stay long in the fields. They became merchants in small towns. Planters also had recruited Italian workers for field labor, and they complained about peonage conditions to their consulate. A State Department investigation ensued in some areas, including an Arkansas plantation owned by prominent US Senator LeRoy Percy of Greenville, Mississippi. The Progressive Era had some results in Mississippi. Governor Theodore Bilbo (1916–20) had the most successful administration of all the governors who
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1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election


The 1873 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1873, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. This election marked the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Mississippi until 1991, 118 years later. In the general election, Republican Adelbert Ames, a U.S. Senator who previously served as governor from 1868 until 1870, defeated James L. Alcorn, also a U.S. Senator. Alcorn's estrangement from Ames, his northern-born colleague, deepened in 1871, as African-Americans became convinced that the former governor
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2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi


The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the four members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Mississippi, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections, including a Senate election in Mississippi. The incumbent was Republican Alan Nunnelee, who had represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected with 60%
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U.S. Route 11 in Mississippi


U.S. Route 11 (US 11) is a major north–south United States highway that runs from New Orleans, Louisiana to Rouses Point, New York. In Mississippi, US 11 runs for approximately from near Nicholson to Cuba, Alabama. The Mississippi section of US 11 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3. Throughout the state of Mississippi, US 11 closely parallels Interstate 59. U.S. Route 11 enters the state of Mississippi along Interstate 59. After a short distance, US 11 and Interstate 59
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Presidency of Woodrow Wilson


of several members of the Progressive Party. Wilson involved himself in the 1918 Democratic congressional primaries, hoping to elect progressive members of Congress who would support his administration's foreign policies. Wilson succeeded in defeating several intra-party opponents, including Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi. However, the general elections saw Republicans take control of both the House and the Senate. Republicans ran against Wilson's foreign policy agenda, especially his proposal for the League of Nations. Despite his ill health, Wilson continued to entertain the possibility of running
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2015 Mississippi elections


candidate for Mayor of Greenwood in 2013 Jelani Barr and former Republican State Senator and former Republican Madison County Supervisor Tim Johnson. Mississippi Public Service Commissionner Brandon Presley was a potential Democratic candidate but is instead running for re-election. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood had been mentioned as a potential candidate for Governor, but he is instead running for re-election to a fourth term in office. The only candidate to file for the Republican nomination was Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst. Attorney Russ Latino considered running but declined to do
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2003 Mississippi general election


, her challenger was Democratic State Senator Barbara Blackmon, who was the first black woman to run for a statewide race. Tuck defeated Blackmon by a comfortable margin. Mike Moore, a Democrat who had served four terms starting in 1988, declined to run for re-election. Moore protégé Jim Hood faced Republican Scott Newton. Newton ran many ads attacking Hood on being soft on crime and especially criticized Hood's handling of a rape case, while Hood focused on Newton's supposed inexperience. Hood won convincingly over Newton. Four
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Shawn O'Hara


members, O'Hara returned to their party in 2011. He announced he would run for governor on their ticket, and also filed to run for state treasurer as both a Democrat "and" a Reform Party candidate. He received 26,290 votes, or 3.01%, in the race for state treasurer. In Mississippi's 2012 election for U.S. Senate, O'Hara ran as the Reform Party candidate and received 13,194 votes, or 1.06%. He ran for Governor of Mississippi in the 2015 election, finishing last with less than 2%
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Charles C. Johnson


on GotNews accusing Mississippi senator Thad Cochran of bribing African-Americans to vote for him in the Mississippi Senate Republican primary. The story came days after Cochran had defeated Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel in a run-off election. Johnson claimed that a black pastor named Stevie Fielder had told him he was paid by Cochran's campaign to bribe black Democrats into voting for Cochran. Johnson paid the pastor for his statements, a controversial practice sometimes known as "checkbook journalism". Fielder later partially recanted his story, saying that he
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James Phelan Sr.


became state printer in 1843. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, moved to Mississippi in 1849, and settled in Aberdeen, where he soon established a large practice. He became a member of the Mississippi State Senate in 1860, then was elected as a Senator from Mississippi in the First Confederate Congress 1862–64. In 1863, he introduced what was called the "Crucial bill of the Confederacy," which was a proposition to confiscate all the cotton in the South, paying for it in Confederate bonds, and using
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2015 Mississippi elections


election to a third term in office instead. Had Hosemann retired or run for another office, potential Republican candidates included State Senator Michael Watson and attorney and Hosemann's former Chief of Staff Cory Wilson. Retired firefighter Charles Graham is running for the Democrats. State Senator David Blount and former Secretary of State Dick Molpus were potential Democratic candidates, but neither chose to run. Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Lynn Fitch is running for re-election to a second term in office. Attorney David McRae, whose family formerly owned the McRae's
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Cleveland, Mississippi


who was responsible for the name change to Cleveland. In 1967, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark, Jr. began Senate hearings to assess the effectiveness of the War on Poverty programs. The first field hearings were held in Jackson, Mississippi, and the following day Kennedy and Clark set out to visit "pockets of poverty" in the Mississippi Delta. They arrived in Cleveland, along with Marian Wright and Peter Edelman, for a tour conducted by Amzie Moore. There they observed barefoot, underfed African-American children
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2014 United States Senate election in Mississippi


emerging." Had he chosen to retire, a "stampede" was predicted in the Republican primary and Democrats believed that a "properly positioned" candidate could have been competitive in the general election. The United States Senate Republican primary election in Mississippi, 2014 took place on June 3, 2014. Incumbent Republican Senator Thad Cochran, who had served in the position since 1978, ran for reelection to a seventh term. He was challenged for the nomination by State Senator Chris McDaniel, a Tea Party supporter, and Thomas Carey
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Civil Rights Act of 1957


the constitutional right to vote for federal officers: electors for president and vice president and members of the US Congress. The Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, realized that the bill and its journey through Congress could tear apart his party, as southern Democrats opposed civil rights, and its northern members were more favorable. Southern Democratic senators occupied chairs of numerous important committees because of their long seniority. Johnson sent the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Democratic Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who drastically
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John Henderson (Mississippi politician)


John Henderson (February 28, 1797September 15, 1857) was a lawyer and U.S. Senator from Mississippi. Born in Cumberland County, New Jersey, Henderson worked as a flatboatman on the Mississippi River and studied law. He moved to Mississippi and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Woodville, Mississippi. He served as a brigadier general in the Mississippi Militia and was a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1835 to 1836. In 1838, Henderson was elected a Whig to the United States Senate, serving one full term
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2015 Mississippi elections


Young. Retired firefighter Robert Gray, physician Valerie Short and attorney Vicki Slater ran for the Democratic nomination. Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves is running for re-election to a second term in office. He is being challenged in the primary by teacher Alisha Nelson McElhenney. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, State Senator and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014 Chris McDaniel and State Senator Michael Watson all considered running against Reeves in the Republican primary, but none did so. Two candidates filed for the Democratic nomination: actor and
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Ronnie Musgrove


David Ronald "Ronnie" Musgrove (born July 29, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from January 16, 1996 to January 11, 2000 and as the 62nd Governor of Mississippi from January 11, 2000 to January 13, 2004. He was defeated by incumbent Senator Roger Wicker in a 2008 special election for one of Mississippi's seats in the U.S. Senate. Musgrove is a Principal at the public affairs consulting firm Company.Politics. In 2014, he became founding
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John C. Stennis


Council at the Mississippi State Coliseum in Jackson, Mississippi. President Nixon said "no State in the Union is represented by men in the Congress of the United States who more vigorously speak up for their States and for the Nation than has the State of Mississippi" and Stennis would be among those "when they write profiles in courage". In May 1974, amid the Senate voting to approve a bill increasing public access to Government information and documents, Stennis opposed an amendment by Maine Senator Edmund Muskie that would have deleted guidelines
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2006 United States Senate election in Mississippi


The 2006 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican Trent Lott won re-election to a fourth term. Lott ran for re-election without facing any opposition in his party's primary. While it had been speculated that Lott might retire after his home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, he instead chose to run for re-election. Fleming is an African American, which represents 37% of the state's population. However, no African American has ever been elected to statewide office
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2015 Mississippi elections


so. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, State Senator Chris McDaniel, State Senator Michael Watson, Jackson County District Attorney Tony Lawrence, Madison and Rankin Counties' District Attorney Michael Guest were all mentioned as potential Republican candidates. However, none of them filed to run. State Representative Mark Baker and attorney, author and former Madison County Supervisor Andy Taggart declined to run. Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann had considered running for Lieutenant Governor against Tate Reeves in the Republican primary. However, he chose to run for re-
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Lee Yancey


Amy Tuck. He was also President of the Choose Life Car Tag Committee. Shortly after becoming State Senator, Yancey joined Woodridge Capitol Portfolio Management, serving in the area of business development. He holds a Series 65 license. Yancey announced he would run for State Senate District 20, which covers portions of Rankin County and Madison County, Mississippi Madison County. The incumbent, Charlie Ross, was not running for re-election, opting instead to run for Lieutenant Governor. In the primary, Yancey faced Robert (Bobby)
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Cindy Hyde-Smith


Cindy Hyde-Smith (born May 10, 1959) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Mississippi, in office since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate. Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith is a graduate of Copiah-Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1999 she was elected to the Mississippi State Senate as a Democrat. She represented the 39th district
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James Eastland


integration-friendly judges from being confirmed by the Senate. As is often the case when a one-term representative runs against a popular incumbent senator or governor, Walker was soundly defeated. Years later, Yerger said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was "very devastating" to the growth of the Mississippi Republicans. In February 1960, Senator Kenneth B. Keating made a motion to report an Eisenhower administration-backed civil rights bill out of the Senate
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1966 United States Senate elections


candidacy of Walker. He was supported by segregationists Tom Brady, George Wallace and Leander Perez. Most of the White voters stayed with Eastland, and Walker ironically won African-Americans in southwestern Mississippi who wanted to cast a protest vote against Eastland. Years later, Wirt Yerger, the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party in the 1960s, said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was "very devastating" to the growth of the GOP in Mississippi.
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James Whitfield (Mississippi)


James Whitfield (December 15, 1791 – June 25, 1875) was an American politician. He served as the Governor of Mississippi from November 24, 1851 to January 10, 1852. He also served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature. He served until United States Senator Henry S. Foote, who had been elected governor, could complete his service in the Senate and resign from that body. Whitfield was a Democrat. He donated of land in the northern part of the state to facilitate the creation of what is simultaneously
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Deborah Jeanne Dawkins


Deborah Jeanne Dawkins is an American politician who is currently a Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the 48th District since 1999. Dawkins has three children and four grandchildren. Dawkins attends Mount Zion Methodist Church in DeLisle, Mississippi. Dawkins is a member of several organizations including the League of Women Voters, National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, America Association of University Women, and the University of Southern Mississippi Alumni Association. Dawkins is a member of nine Senate committees, and is the primary sponsor of 634 bills and the secondary sponsor
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Stanford Morse


Stanford Everett Morse, Jr. (May 31, 1926 – February 28, 2002), was a lawyer from Gulfport, Mississippi, and a two-term Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate. In April 1963, he switched to Republican affiliation to run unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor on the ticket headed by Rubel Phillips. A former Democratic member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from Corinth, Phillips also changed parties in 1963 in a bid to become his state's first GOP governor since Reconstruction. Morse was born in Gulfport to
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African Americans in the United States Congress


of the US Senate. During Reconstruction, only the state legislature of Mississippi elected any black senators. On February 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was seated as the first black member of the Senate, while Blanche Bruce, also of Mississippi, seated in 1875, was the second. Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. Blacks were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the
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Blanche Bruce


Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841March 17, 1898) was born a slave in Prince Edward County, Virginia, an African-American politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881; he was the first elected black senator to serve a full term. Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate but did not complete a full term. Bruce was born into slavery in 1841 in Prince Edward County, Virginia near Farmville to
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Charles Lynch (politician)


Probate in 1821. He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate and served in 1827. In 1831 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor, and in 1832 he was a Delegate to the state constitutional convention. Lynch returned to the Mississippi Senate in 1832. He was elected President of the Senate and in June 1833 he succeeded Governor Abram L. Scott, who had died in office. He completed Scott's term, serving until November 1833, when he was succeeded by Hiram Runnels. In 1835 Lynch, now a Whig,
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Lee Yancey


are bad for you, and where do you draw the line," he said. Yancey said General Harold Cross "planted a seed in my head" about running for Treasurer in Summer 2010. Describing himself as "one of the few fiscal conservatives in the senate and the house," Yancey was spurred to run for Treasurer "out of a sense of growing frustration being in the Mississippi Senate" and out of concern "about the direction our state is going financially." In January 2010, Yancey announced he would
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Henry Wilson


Americans to vote and hold federal office. In 1870 Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate by the reconstructed Mississippi Legislature. Revels was the first African American elected to the Senate, and Senate Democrats attempted to prevent him from being seated. Wilson defended Revels's election, and presented as evidence of its validity signatures from the clerks of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi State Senate, as well as that of Adelbert Ames, the military Governor of Mississippi. Wilson argued that Revels's skin color was not a bar to
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Mississippi Democratic Party


the state's U.S. Senate Seats. Officers of the State Executive Committee include: Others who have served as Mississippi Democratic Chairmen have included Rickey Cole of Ovett, former Congressman Wayne Dowdy of McComb, Jon Levingston of Clarksdale and State Senator Johnnie Walls of Greenwood. Past executive directors have included Rickey Cole, Travis Brock, Sam R. Hall, Rosalind Rawls, Keelan Sanders, Amy Harris, Morgan Shands, and Alice Skelton. Mississippi has two representatives to the Democratic National Committee: These positions, unlike the officers, are elected every
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Go, Mississippi


with Mississippi culture, publicly expressed support of a group wanting to change it. In 2000, State Senator William Gardner Hewes introduced Senate Bill 2960 to replace the state song with "Mississippi" by Edward Owen Miller. However, the bill died in committee. In 2003, State Senator Delma Furniss introduced Senate Bill 2217 to adopt "My Home Mississippi," by Delma Furniss, as the official state song. The bill died in committee. In 2011, songwriters Carolyn Sue Woods of Amory and John Riggs of Nashville led a
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Lydia Chassaniol


Lydia Chassaniol (born December 29, 1950) is an American politician. She has served in the Mississippi Senate from the 14th district since 2007. Chassaniol is a member of the Republican Party. Chassaniol is from Winona, Mississippi. She served on the Mississippi Parole Board from 1997 through 2000, and was first elected to the Mississippi Senate in 2007. Chassaniol ran unopposed for District 14 of the Mississippi Senate in 2007. In November 2011, she was re-elected to the seat, defeating Democrat Carlos Moore. Chassaniol was
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Interstate 59


Pearl River into Mississippi. In Mississippi, I-59 continues to run parallel with US 11, traversing mainly rural areas, but going through or bypassing the towns of Picayune, Poplarville, Hattiesburg, Ellisville, Moselle, Laurel, and Meridian. For its length in Mississippi, I-59 either travels concurrent with, or runs close to, US 11. Between the towns of Pearl River and Picayune, US 11 travels concurrent with I-59. The highway also has concurrencies with US 98 in Hattiesburg; Mississippi Highway 42 (MS 42) just
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1981 Mississippi's 4th congressional district special election


together a coalition of rural whites and African American voters. His support of the Voting Rights Act successfully mobilized African American voters in the district and was seen as being a key factor in his victory. Dowdy continued to serve in the U.S. Congress until he decided to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in 1988 and lost to Congressman Trent Lott. In 1981, Mississippi's 4th district contained much of the Southwestern portion of the state, just South of the Mississippi Delta. 53% of the district's registered voters came from
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Mississippi Democratic Party


voices of the LGBT community of Mississippi. The term "Yellow Dog Democrat" refers to someone (typically in the South) who is staunchly loyal to the Democratic Party. They will almost always vote Democrat, no matter the candidate. The term was coined by Senator J. Thomas Heflin, who said "I'd vote for a yellow dog if he ran on the Democratic ticket!" The Mississippi Democratic Party is partly supported by the "Yellow Dog Democrats," who contribute to the party on a yearly or monthly basis
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1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi


The 1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 1978. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James Eastland decided to retire. Republican Thad Cochran won the open seat. Evers was the first African American elected since the Reconstruction era to be mayor in any Mississippi city in 1969. He ran as an independent, and as a result his campaign divided the Democrats and allowed Cochran to win the senate seat with a 45 percent plurality. This made him the first Republican to win a statewide election in Mississippi in a century
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