Politicians1978–2018

Thad Cochran

One of the Senate's master appropriators — Cochran's decades on Appropriations steered more federal dollars to Mississippi than the state's size would suggest, and his 2014 primary victory over a Tea Party challenger with Democratic crossover votes was one of the strangest elections in Senate history.

Origin

Pontotoc, Mississippi

Genre

SenatorRepublican (MS)

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Trent Lott

Senator / Republican (MS) — Grenada, Mississippi · 1989–2007

The Senate Majority Leader who resigned his leadership post after suggesting the country would have been better off if Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign had succeeded — an offhand remark at a birthday party that ended his career at the top.