Melanie Sojourner | |
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Member of the Mississippi Senate from the 37th district | |
In office January 7, 2020 –January 2, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Bob Dearing |
Succeeded by | Albert Butler (redistricting) |
In office January 3,2012 –January 5,2016 | |
Preceded by | Bob Dearing |
Succeeded by | Bob Dearing |
Personal details | |
Born | Centreville,Mississippi,U.S. | January 5,1968
Political party | Republican |
Relations | Albert Boyd Sojourner (great-grandfather) |
Residence(s) | Natchez,Mississippi,U.S. |
Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
Website | www |
Melanie Sojourner (born January 5,1968) is an American politician from the state of Mississippi. [1] She served in the Mississippi State Senate,representing the 37th district. She is a member of the Republican Party. [2]
She was born in Centreville,Mississippi,and was raised in Kingston,Mississippi. [3] She is the great-granddaughter of Albert Boyd Sojourner,who was in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1916. [3]
She attended Adams County Christian School,which was founded as a segregation academy and uses the Confederate flag as its symbol,and has enrolled her daughter there. [4] She opposed the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Flag of Mississippi. [5]
Sojourner graduated from Louisiana State University. She then worked for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association for eight years,and then as a 4-H associate for Mississippi State University. [6]
Sojourner defeated Bob Dearing in the 2011 elections to serve in the State Senate. [7] She served as the campaign manager for Chris McDaniel's 2014 U.S. Senate campaign. [8] Sojourner lost her reelection bid to Dearing in the 2015 elections. [9] She was elected back to the Senate in the 2019 elections. [10]
Sojourner's legislative district was effectively dismantled during 2022 redistricting and she ultimately did not seek re-election to the Senate in 2023. [11]
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