Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census,the population was 40,685. There are two county seats,Blytheville and Osceola. The county was formed on November 1,1833,and named for the Mississippi River which borders the county to the east. Mississippi County is part of the First Congressional District in Arkansas.
Blytheville is the county seat and the largest city in Mississippi County,Arkansas,United States. It is approximately 60 miles (100 km) north of West Memphis. The population was 13,406 at the 2020 census,down from 15,620 in 2010.
Mark Lunsford Pryor is an American attorney,politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to becoming senator,he was Attorney General of Arkansas from 1999 to 2003.
John Nichols Boozman is an American politician and former optometrist serving as the senior United States senator from Arkansas,a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party,he was the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district from 2001 to 2011. He is the dean of Arkansas's congressional delegation.
Leonard Leroy Boswell was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2013,a district based in Des Moines. A member of the Democratic Party,he was defeated for reelection in 2012 by 4th district incumbent Tom Latham,who decided to run against him after redistricting. Boswell left Congress in January 2013.
The 106th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from January 3,1999,to January 3,2001,during the last two years of Bill Clinton's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers maintained a Republican majority.
Ellis James Abdnor was an American politician who served as a member of the United States Senate from South Dakota. He was also the 15th Administrator of the Small Business Administration under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Steven A. "Steve" Sviggum is a Minnesota politician,a member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents,and an executive assistant to and communications director for the Republican caucus in the Minnesota Senate. A former Speaker and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives,Sviggum represented District 28B in the southeastern part of the state. The area was known as District 25A until the 1982 legislative redistricting,and then as District 26A until the 1992 redistricting,and has included all or portions of Dakota,Dodge,Goodhue,Olmsted,Steele,Wabasha,Waseca and Winona counties.
Edgardo Javier Angara was a Filipino politician who served as the President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1993 to 1995. He was a Senator from 1987 to 1998 and then served as Secretary of Agriculture from 1999 to 2001. He served in the Senate again from 2001 to 2013. He also previously served as the President of the University of the Philippines,and was succeeded by political scientist Dr. JoséAbueva.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington,D.C.-based 527 organization founded in 1983,consisting of U.S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Democratic Party. The mission of the organization is to provide party support to the election and re-election of Democratic gubernatorial candidates. The DGA's Republican counterpart is the Republican Governors Association. The DGA is not directly affiliated with the non-partisan National Governors Association. Noam Lee is currently the executive director of the DGA,while Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is the current chair.
Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa is a Mexican-American politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and former Secretary of Agriculture,Livestock,Rural Development,Fisheries and Food. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de Monterrey.
David Joseph Tomassoni was an American politician who served in the Minnesota Legislature from 1993 to 2022. A former member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),Tomassoni left the party to become independent in November 2020 and joined the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus.
Steven Vanackere,is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He held the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reform in the Leterme II government. He is the son of Leo Vanackere,who,following a political career as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of Belgium,became the Provincial Governor of West Flanders in 1979. His grandfather,Remi Wallays,had also been a senator and had been a former Mayor of Wevelgem.
Nicholas Ugbane is a Nigerian banker and politician. He was in the Senate of Nigeria between 2003 to 2011 and was the Senator for the Kogi East Senatorial District of Kogi State. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Prior to his senatorial career,Ugbane was the managing director Republic Bank Limited and Honourable Commissioner for:Education,Youth and Sports,Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture and Natural resources.
Stephen Allen Womack is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district since 2011. The district,which was once represented by future Senator J. William Fulbright,covers much of northwestern Arkansas,including Fort Smith,Fayetteville,Springdale,and Womack's hometown of Rogers. A member of the Republican Party,Womack was mayor of Rogers before his election to Congress.
Paul Kinloch Holmes III is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Jonathan Stuart "Jon" Fitch was an American politician from Arkansas.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas occurred on Tuesday,November 6,2012 to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election.
David Burnett is an American Democratic politician and former member of the Arkansas Senate. Before he entered the Senate,Burnett had been a judge. Burnett is known as the trial judge of the controversial West Memphis Three trial during which he made several serious mistakes.
The 1937 Arkansas special senatorial election was held on October 19,1937,following the death of longtime Democratic senator Joe T. Robinson. Robinson was a powerful senator,staunch Democrat,and strong supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt,and was instrumental in passing many New Deal programs through the Senate. Arkansas was essentially a one-party state during the Solid South period;the Democratic Party controlled all aspects of state and local office. Recently elected Democratic Governor of Arkansas Carl E. Bailey initially considered appointing himself to finish Robinson's term,but later acceded to a nomination process by the Democratic Central Committee,avoiding a public primary but breaking a campaign process. Avoiding the primary so angered the public and establishment Democrats,leading them to coalesce behind longtime Democrat John E. Miller as an independent,forcing a general election.
