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Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lawyer,author,and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career,he served twice as Senate Majority Leader,and also,alternately,Senate Minority Leader. In 2003,he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American Republican politician,minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church,and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina,he later lived and worked in Ohio,where he voted before the Civil War. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era,he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
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The 2008 Mississippi 1st congressional district special election was a special election in the state of Mississippi to determine who would serve the remainder of former Representative Roger Wicker's term. After an April 22,2008 ballot resulted in no candidate receiving a majority,Democratic Party candidate Travis Childers defeated Republican candidate Greg Davis in a runoff election on May 13,2008.
Robert Montgomery Dearing was an American politician,educator,and businessman who served in the Mississippi Senate as a member of the Democratic Party.
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The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the U.S. state of Mississippi;one from each of the state's four congressional districts. Primaries are scheduled for March 10,2020.
Cory Todd Wilson is an American attorney and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Wilson was previously a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
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Benjamin Suber is an American attorney and politician who has served in the Mississippi State Senate from the 8th district since 2020.
Joseph C. Thomas,Sr. is an American politician,serving in the Mississippi Senate from the 21st district from 2004 to 2008 and from the 22nd district since 2020.
Jason Todd Barrett is an American politician,serving in the Mississippi State Senate from the 39th district since 2020.
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- ↑ "Scott DeLano". Mississippi State Senate. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ↑ "Scott DeLano". Ballotpedia. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
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