United States congressional delegations from Mississippi

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Mississippi
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Census Topic Value
Population 2,961,279
Gender
47.6% Male
52.4% Female
Race
56% White
36.6% Black
1.1% Asian
0.6% Native American
0% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity 3.6% Hispanic or Latino origin
Median household income $54,915
High school graduation rate 86.6%
College graduation rate 24.2%
Upcoming elections
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.


This page displays the current and historical members of U.S. Congress from Mississippi.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Mississippi
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 0 1 1
Republican 2 3 5
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 4 6

Current members

U.S. Senate

See also: Classes of United States Senators

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Mississippi are:


Office Name Party Date assumed office Date term ends
U.S. Senate Mississippi Cindy Hyde-Smith Republican April 9, 2018 January 3, 2027
U.S. Senate Mississippi Roger Wicker Republican December 31, 2007 January 3, 2031


U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from Mississippi are:


Office Name Party Date assumed office Date term ends
U.S. House Mississippi District 1 Trent Kelly Republican June 9, 2015 January 3, 2027
U.S. House Mississippi District 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic April 20, 1993 January 3, 2027
U.S. House Mississippi District 3 Michael Guest Republican January 3, 2019 January 3, 2027
U.S. House Mississippi District 4 Mike Ezell Republican January 3, 2023 January 3, 2027


Historical members

U.S. Senate

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi.

Historical Representation to the U.S. Senate by Party from Mississippi
Party Total
     Republican 9
     Democratic 30
     Jacksonian 5
     Jacksonian; Democratic-Republican 2
     Whig 2
     Democratic-Republican 1
     Multiple party affiliations 2
Class 1 Senators from Mississippi
Senator Years Served Party
Walter Leake 1817-1820 Democratic-Republican
David Holmes 1820-1825 Jacksonian; Democratic-Republican
Powhatan Ellis 1825-1826 Jacksonian
Thomas B. Reed 1826-1827 Jacksonian
Powhatan Ellis 1827-1832 Jacksonian
John Black 1832-1838 Jacksonian (1832-1833)
Anti-Jacksonian (1833-1837)
Whig (1837-1838)
James F. Trotter 1838-1838 Democratic
Thomas Hickman Williams 1838-1839 Democratic
John Henderson 1839-1845 Whig
Jesse Speight 1845-1847 Democratic
Jefferson Davis 1847-1851 Democratic
John J. McRae 1851-1852 Democratic
Stephen Adams 1852-1857 Democratic
Jefferson Davis 1857-1861 Democratic
Adelbert Ames 1870-1874 Republican
Henry R. Pease 1874-1875 Republican
Blanche K. Bruce 1875-1881 Republican
James Z. George 1881-1897 Democratic
Hernando D. Money 1897-1911 Democratic
John Sharp Williams 1911-1923 Democratic
Hubert D. Stephens 1923-1935 Democratic
Theodore G. Bilbo 1935-1947 Democratic
John C. Stennis 1947-1989 Democratic
Trent Lott 1989-2007 Republican
Roger F. Wicker 2007-Present Republican


Class 2 Senators from Mississippi
Senator Years Served Party
Thomas Hill Williams 1817-1829 Jacksonian; Democratic-Republican
Thomas B. Reed 1829-1829 Jacksonian
Robert H. Adams 1830-1830 Jacksonian
George Poindexter 1830-1835 Jacksonian (1830-1832)
Anti-Jacksonian (1833-1835)
Robert J. Walker 1835-1845 Democratic
Joseph W. Chalmers 1845-1847 Democratic
Henry Stuart Foote 1847-1852 Democratic
Walker Brooke 1852-1853 Whig
Albert G. Brown 1854-1861 Democratic
Hiram R. Revels 1870-1871 Republican
James L. Alcorn 1871-1877 Republican
Lucius Q.C. Lamar 1877-1885 Democratic
Edward C. Walthall 1885-1894 Democratic
Anselm J. McLaurin 1894-1895 Democratic
Edward C. Walthall 1895-1898 Democratic
William V. Sullivan 1898-1901 Democratic
Anselm J. McLaurin 1901-1909 Democratic
James Gordon 1909-1910 Democratic
Le Roy Percy 1910-1913 Democratic
James K. Vardaman 1913-1919 Democratic
Byron "Pat" Harrison 1919-1941 Democratic
James O. Eastland 1941-1941 Democratic
Wall Doxey 1941-1943 Democratic
James O. Eastland 1943-1978 Democratic
Thad Cochran 1978-2019 Republican
Cindy Hyde-Smith 2019-Present Republican

U.S. House

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Mississippi.

2000s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from Mississippi
Party Total
     Democratic 2
     Republican 6
Total Representatives 8
Representatives to the U.S. House from Mississippi
Representative Years Served Party
Gene Taylor 2003-2010 Democratic
Travis Childers 2008-2011 Democratic
Gregg Harper 2009-2019 Republican
Steven Palazzo 2010-2023 Republican
Alan Nunnelee 2011-2015 Republican
Trent Kelly 2015-Present Republican
Michael Guest 2019-Present Republican
Mike Ezell 2023-Present Republican

1900s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from Mississippi
Party Total
     Democratic 41
     Republican 9
Total Representatives 50
Representatives to the U.S. House from Mississippi
Representative Years Served Party
Patrick Henry 1901-1903 Democratic
Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. 1901-1921 Democratic
Wilson S. Hill 1903-1909 Democratic
Frank A. McLain 1903-1909 Democratic
John Sharp Williams 1903-1909 Democratic
Adam M. Byrd 1903-1911 Democratic
Eaton Bowers 1903-1911 Democratic
Benjamin G. Humphreys 1903-1923 Democratic
William A. Dickson 1909-1913 Democratic
Thomas U. Sisson 1909-1923 Democratic
James Collier 1909-1933 Democratic
Samuel Andrew Witherspoon 1911-1915 Democratic
Hubert D. Stephens 1911-1921 Democratic
Percy Quin 1913-1932 Democratic
William Webb Venable 1916-1921 Democratic
Bill G. Lowrey 1921-1929 Democratic
Ross A. Collins 1921-1935 and 1937-1943 Democratic
John Rankin 1921-1953 Democratic
William Yerger Humphreys 1923-1925 Democratic
T. Jeff Busby 1923-1935 Democratic
William Madison Whittington 1925-1951 Democratic
Wall Doxey 1929-1941 Democratic
Lawrence R. Ellzey 1932-1935 Democratic
Aubert C. Dunn 1935-1937 Democratic
Aaron L. Ford 1935-1943 Democratic
Dan R. McGehee 1935-1947 Democratic
Jamie Whitten 1941-1995 Democratic
Thomas Abernethy 1943-1973 Democratic
W. Arthur Winstead 1943-1965 Democratic
John Bell Williams 1947-1968 Democratic
Frank E. Smith 1951-1963 Democratic
William M. Colmer 1963-1973 Democratic
Prentiss Walker 1965-1967 Republican
Gillespie V. Montgomery 1967-1973 Democratic
Charles Hudson Griffin 1968-1973 Democratic
Thad Cochran 1973-1979 Republican
David R. Bowen 1973-1983 Democratic
Trent Lott 1973-1989 Republican
Sonny Montgomery 1973-1997 Democratic
Jon Hinson 1979-1981 Republican
Wayne Dowdy 1981-1989 Democratic
William Franklin 1983-1987 Republican
Mike Espy 1987-1993 Democratic
Larkin I. Smith 1989-1989 Republican
Mike Parker 1989-1999 Republican
Gene Taylor 1989-2003 Democratic
Bennie Thompson 1993-Present Democratic
Roger Wicker 1995-2007 Republican
Chip Pickering 1997-2009 Republican
Ronnie Shows 1999-2003 Democratic

1800s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from Mississippi
Party Total
     Democratic 44
     Republican 10
     Jacksonian 6
     Whig 3
     Unionist 3
     Democratic Republican 1
     Independent 1
     Anti-Jacksonian 1
     Know-Nothing 1
     Independent-Republican 1
     Multiple party affiliations 1
Total Representatives 72
Representatives to the U.S. House from Mississippi
Representative Years Served Party
Christopher Rankin 1819-1826 Democratic-Republican
William Hale 1826-1828 Jacksonian
Thomas Hinds 1828-1831 Jacksonian
Franklin E. Plummer 1831-1835 Jacksonian
Harry Cage 1833-1835 Jacksonian
David Dickson 1835-1836 Anti-Jacksonian
John F. H. Claiborne 1835-1837 and 1837-1838 Jacksonian
Samuel J. Gholson 1836-1837 and 1837-1838 Jacksonian
Thomas J. Word 1838-1839 Whig
Sergent S. Prentiss 1838-1839 Whig
Albert G. Brown 1839-1841 and 1847-1853 Democratic
Jacob Thompson 1839-1851 Democratic
William M. Gwin 1841-1843 Democratic
William H. Hammett 1843-1845 Democratic
Tilghman Tucker 1843-1845 Democratic
Robert W. Roberts 1843-1847 Democratic
Jefferson Davis 1845-1846 Democratic
Stephen Adams 1845-1847 Democratic
Henry T. Ellett January 1847-March 1847 Democratic
Patrick Watson Tompkins 1847-1849 Whig
Winfield S. Featherston 1847-1851 Democratic
William McWillie 1849-1851 Democratic
Benjamin Nabers 1851-1853 Unionist
John A. Wilcox 1851-1853 Unionist
John D. Freeman 1851-1853 Unionist
William T. S. Barry 1853-1855 Democratic
Otho Robards Singleton 1853-1855; 1857-1861; 1875-1887 Democratic
Wiley P. Harris 1853-1855 Democratic
Daniel B. Wright 1853-1857 Democratic
Hendley Bennett 1855-1857 Democratic
William A. Lake 1855-1857 Know-Nothing
John A. Quitman 1855-1858 Democratic
William Barksdale 1855-1861 Democratic
L. Q. C. Lamar 1857-1861 and 1873-1877 Democratic
Reuben Davis 1857-1861 Democratic
Otho R. Singleton 1857-1861 and 1875-1887 Democratic
John Jones McRae 1858-1861 Democratic
George C. McKee 1869-1873 Republican
George E. Harris 1870-1873 Republican
Joseph Morphis 1870-1873 Republican
Legrand Winfield Perce 1870-1873 Republican
Henry Barry 1870-1875 Republican
Albert Howe 1873-1875 Republican
Jason Niles 1873-1875 Republican
George Colin McKee 1873-1875 Republican
John R. Lynch 1873-1877 and 1882-1883 Republican
Guilford Wells 1875-1877 Independent-Republican
Hernando D. Money 1875-1883 and 1893-1897 Democratic
Charles E. Hooker 1875-1883 Democratic
James R. Chalmers 1877-1885 Democratic; Independent
Van H. Manning 1877-1883 Democratic
Henry Muldrow 1877-1885 Democratic
Elza Jeffords 1883-1885 Republican
James Ronald Chalmers 1883-1885 Independent
Henry Van Eaton 1883-1887 Democratic
Frederick G. Barry 1885-1889 Democratic
James Bright Morgan 1885-1891 Democratic
John Allen 1885-1901 Democratic
Thomas C. Catchings 1885-1901 Democratic
Chapman L. Anderson 1887-1891 Democratic
Thomas Stockdale 1887-1895 Democratic
Clarke Lewis 1889-1893 Democratic
Joseph H. Beeman 1891-1893 Democratic
Joseph Henry Beeman 1891-1893 Democratic
John Curtis Kyle 1891-1897 Democratic
John Sharp Williams 1893-1903 Democratic
Walter Denny 1895-1897 Democratic
William V. Sullivan 1897-1898 Democratic
William Love 1897-1898 Democratic
Andrew F. Fox 1897-1903 Democratic
Frank McLain 1898-1903 Democratic
Thomas Spight 1898-1911 Democratic

District map

Footnotes


Senators
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District 3
District 4
Republican Party (5)
Democratic Party (1)