Lauderdale County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census,the population was 72,984. The county seat and largest city is Meridian. The county is named for Colonel James Lauderdale,who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Lauderdale County is included in the Meridian,MS Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Meridian is the eighth most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi,with a population of 35,052 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian,Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Along major highways,the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson;154 mi (248 km) southwest of Birmingham,Alabama;202 mi (325 km) northeast of New Orleans,Louisiana;and 231 mi (372 km) southeast of Memphis,Tennessee.
The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature,the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890,it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected for four-year terms. To qualify as a member of the House candidates must be at least 21 years old,a resident of Mississippi for at least four years,and a resident in the district for at least two years. Elections are held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
The flag of Mississippi consists of a white magnolia blossom surrounded by 21 stars and the words "In God We Trust" written below,all put over a blue Canadian pale with two vertical gold borders on a red field. The topmost star is composed of a pattern of five diamonds,an Indigenous symbol;the other 20 stars are white,as Mississippi was the 20th state to join the Union. The flag was adopted on January 11,2021.
Jonathan Tate Reeves is an American politician serving since 2020 as the 65th governor of Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party,Reeves served as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020 and as the 53rd Mississippi State Treasurer from 2004 to 2012.
Mississippi's 3rd congressional district (MS-3) covers central portions of state and stretches from the Louisiana border in the west to the Alabama border in the east.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician and attorney who has been the lieutenant governor of Mississippi since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020,he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
Dewey Phillip Bryant is an American politician who served as the 64th governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 31st lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2008 to 2012 and 40th state auditor of Mississippi from 1996 to 2008. Bryant was elected governor in 2011,defeating the Democratic nominee Mayor Johnny DuPree of Hattiesburg. He was re-elected in 2015,defeating Democratic nominee Robert Gray.
Dan Zwonitzer is a Republican Party member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from District 43,which comprises south-central Laramie County and includes southeastern portion of the capital city of Cheyenne,Wyoming.
Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Mississippi 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.
Charles L. Young Sr. was an American businessman,veteran of the Korean War who earned a Bronze Star,and politician in Mississippi. He advanced in the family business started by his father,becoming president in 1969 and expanding the sale of E.F. Young Jr. Manufacturing Company products into markets in Canada and the Caribbean. In 1980 he was elected to the Mississippi State Legislature,and was repeatedly re-elected,serving nearly three decades from Meridian,Mississippi until his death.
Elections were held on November 2,2010,to determine Mississippi's four members of the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms to serve in the 112th United States Congress from January 3,2011,until January 3,2013. Primary elections were held on June 1,2010,and primary runoff elections on June 22.
The Meridian race riot of 1871 was a race riot in Meridian,Mississippi in March 1871. It followed the arrest of freedmen accused of inciting riot in a downtown fire,and blacks' organizing for self-defense. Although the local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter had attacked freedmen since the end of the Civil War,generally without punishment,the first local arrest under the 1870 act to suppress the Klan was of a freedman. This angered the black community. During the trial of black leaders,the presiding judge was shot in the courtroom,and a gunfight erupted that killed several people. In the ensuing mob violence,whites killed as many as 30 blacks over the next few days. Democrats drove the Republican mayor from office,and no person was charged or tried in the freedmen's deaths.
Paul Novotny is an American politician serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives since 2020. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota,Novotny represents District 30B in east-central Minnesota,which includes the cities of Elk River and Otsego and parts of Anoka,Sherburne,and Wright Counties.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi were held on November 8,2022,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Mississippi,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
The 2023 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on November 7,2023,to elect the governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican governor Tate Reeves won re-election to a second term,defeating Democratic nominee,Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley.
Betty Jane Long was an American politician and attorney who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1956 to 1984. A member of the Democratic Party,she was one of few women legislators in Mississippi during her time in the House. She chaired several committees and subcommittees,including a subcommittee on the Equal Rights Amendment,which she opposed. After her retirement from the House,Long was appointed to a committee that drafted a proposal for a new Constitution of Mississippi.
Thelma Williams Farr Baxter was an American politician,schoolteacher,and business owner who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1950 to 1956. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected after running unopposed to fill the seat vacated by her late husband,Paul Farr,who had died in a car accident. She ran for re-election the following year against four primary opponents;after no candidate received a majority of the vote,a runoff election was held,which Farr won. After leaving office in 1956,she continued to teach English and managed a family business.
Hugh McQueen Street was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1880,1890 to 1894,and from 1908 to 1912. He was its Speaker in four different stints.
Adoniram Judson "Jud" Russell was an American politician. He was the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1900 to his death.
