Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County,Mississippi,United States. It is located along the Sunflower River. Clarksdale is named after John Clark,a settler who founded the city in the mid-19th century when he established a timber mill and business.
Jonestown is a town in Coahoma County,Mississippi,United States. Per the 2020 census,the population was 962.
James Lusk Alcorn was a governor,and U.S. senator during the Reconstruction era in Mississippi. A Moderate Republican and Whiggish scalawag,he engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican Adelbert Ames,who defeated him in the 1873 gubernatorial race. Alcorn was the elected Republican governor of Mississippi.
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.
Jamie Lloyd Whitten was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented the Deep South state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He was at the time of his departure the longest-serving U.S. Representative ever. From 1979 to 1995,he was Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the longest-serving member of Congress ever from Mississippi. He was a New Deal liberal in economic matters,and took a leading role in Congress in forming national policy and spending regarding agriculture.
The Solid South or Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in those states. The Southern bloc existed especially between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. During this period,the Democratic Party overwhelmingly controlled southern state legislatures,and most local,state and federal officeholders in the South were Democrats. During the late 1800s and early 1900s,Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in all Southern states,along with a few non-Southern states doing the same as well. This resulted essentially in a one-party system,in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power,excluding blacks from voting in primaries.
The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate,along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives,convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson.
The Mississippi Republican Party is the Mississippi state affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party chairman is Frank Bordeaux,and the party is based in Jackson,Mississippi. The original Republican Party of Mississippi was founded following the American Civil War,and the current incarnation of the Mississippi Republican Party was founded in 1956. The party would grow in popularity after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is currently the dominant party in the state.
The South Carolina Republican Party (SCGOP) is the state affiliate of the national Republican Party in South Carolina. It is one of two major political parties in the state,along with the South Carolina Democratic Party,and is the dominant party. Incumbent governor Henry McMaster,as well as senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham,are Republicans. Graham has served since January 3,2003,having been elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2008,2014,and 2020;Tim Scott was appointed in 2013 by then-governor Nikki Haley,who is also a Republican.
The Mississippi Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Mississippi. The party headquarters is located in Jackson,Mississippi.
The Alabama Republican Party is the state affiliate of the Republican Party in Alabama. It is the dominant political party in Alabama. The state party is governed by the Alabama Republican Executive Committee. The committee usually meets twice a year. As of the February 23,2019 meeting in Birmingham,the committee is composed of 463 members. Most of the committee's members are elected in district elections across Alabama. The district members are elected in the Republican Primary once every four years,with the most recent election for the committee having been on June 5,2018. The new committee takes office following the general election in November 2018. In addition,all 67 county GOP chairmen have automatic seats as voting members. The state chairman can appoint 10 members. Each county committee can appoint bonus members based on a formula that theoretically could add 312 seats,although that formula currently calls for only about 50 seats.
The Republican Party of Louisiana is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its chair is Louis Gurvich,who was elected in 2018. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling all but one of Louisiana's six U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,and both houses of the state legislature. The only statewide office that the party does not control is the governorship,which is currently held by Democrat John Bel Edwards.
Ralph Hindman Doxey is an attorney and a Republican politician in the Mississippi Senate who represented the 2nd district which encompasses Benton,Marshall and Tippah counties from 2004 to 2008.
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.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Mississippi:
The Government of Mississippi is the government of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Power in Mississippi's government is distributed by the state's Constitution between the executive and legislative branches. The state's current governor is Tate Reeves. The Mississippi Legislature consists of the House of Representatives and Senate. Mississippi is one of only five states that elects its state officials in odd numbered years. Mississippi holds elections for these offices every four years in the years preceding Presidential election years. Thus,the last year when Mississippi elected a Governor was 2019,and the next gubernatorial election will occur in 2023.
The 4th Senate District of Wisconsin is one of 33 districts in the Wisconsin State Senate. Located in southeast Wisconsin,the district is entirely contained within northern Milwaukee County. It comprises part of the city of Milwaukee's north side,as well as the village of Shorewood,the southern half of the city of Glendale,and part of northern Wauwatosa.
Malcolm H. Mabry Jr. was an American politician from the state of Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1964 to 1980,representing Coahoma County,and in the Mississippi State Senate from 1980 to 1988,representing the 11th district. He was also a teacher and farmer.
Lewis Leslie "Mack" McAllister,Jr.,is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives,representing Lauderdale County,from 1963 to 1968. He was the first Republican in the Mississippi Legislature in 43 years.
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