The lieutenant governor of Mississippi is the second-highest ranking elected executive officer in the U.S. state of Mississippi,below the governor of Mississippi,and is the only official in the state to be a member of two branches of state government. The office of lieutenant governor was established when Mississippi became a state in 1817,abolished for a few decades in the first half of the 19th century,and restored later in the century. The lieutenant governor serves a four-year term with a two consecutive term limit. The current lieutenant governor is Delbert Hosemann,a Republican,who has held the office since 2020.
Edythe Evelyn Gandy was an American attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980. A Democrat who held several public offices throughout her career,she was the first woman elected to a statewide constitutional office in Mississippi. Born in Hattiesburg,she attended the University of Mississippi School of Law as the only woman in her class. Following graduation,she took a job as a research assistant for United States Senator Theodore Bilbo. She briefly practiced law before being elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives,where she served from 1948 to 1952. Defeated for re-election,she worked as director of the Division of Legal Services in the State Department of Public Welfare and Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi until she was elected State Treasurer of Mississippi in 1959.
Major-General Joseph Robert Davis was an American politician and lawyer who served as the commanding general of the Mississippi National Guard from 1888 to 1895. During the American Civil War,he served as aide-de-camp to the President of the Confederate States and commanded a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. He is best known for his role at Gettysburg. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Madison and Scott counties in the Mississippi Senate from 1860 to 1861.
The state auditor of Mississippi is an elected official in the executive branch of Mississippi's state government. The duty of the state auditor is to ensure accountability in the use of funds appropriated by the state legislature by inspecting and reporting on the expenditure of the public funds.
William Dunbar Holder was a prominent Confederate politician and soldier.
The Mississippi secretary of state is an officer of Mississippi originally established under the Article IV,§14 of Mississippi Constitution of 1817,and was reestablished under Article V,§133 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
The 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican Governor Phil Bryant ran for re-election to a second and final term in office. This is the highest percentage that a Republican has ever won in a gubernatorial election in Mississippi.
Jeff Truly was an American jurist and Democratic politician. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1903 to 1906,and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1886.
John Morgan Stevens was an American lawyer and politician. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1915 to 1920.
The 1967 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 7,1967,in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Democrat Paul B. Johnson Jr. was term-limited,and could not run for reelection to a second term.
Joseph Withers Power was a Mississippi politician and the Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1901 to 1926.
George Morgan Govan was an American military officer and Democratic politician from Mississippi. He was the 27th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1886 to 1896.
Kinloch Falconer was a newspaper editor,officer in the Confederate Army,lawyer,and the 24th Mississippi Secretary of State.
Frank Roberson was an American Democratic politician. He was the Attorney General of Mississippi from 1920 to 1923.
Charles Albert Brougher was an American politician. He was the 14th and 16th Secretary of State of Mississippi,serving from 1860 to 1865 and 1865 to 1869.
James Franklin McCool was an American Democratic politician and jurist. He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1882 to 1886 and from 1896 to 1900,and was its Speaker during the latter term.
Charles B. Mitchell was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1888 to 1890.
William Gwin Kiger was an American physician and Democratic politician. He represented the 12th District in the Mississippi State Senate from 1892 to 1904 and from 1920 to 1932.
Thomas Sanford Gathright was an American educator and the first president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,now known as Texas A&M University,and the second president of Henderson Male and Female College. He founded what would later become the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War and was the state Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1876.
