United States congressional delegations from Mississippi

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

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

Current members

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U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Roger Wicker		U.S. Senate, Mississippi	2007	January 3, 2019	November 2018	Link	Trent Lott (R)
Thad Cochran		U.S. Senate, Mississippi	1978	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	James Eastland (D)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Alan Nunnelee		District 1	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Travis Childers (D)
Bennie Thompson		District 2	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Mike Espy (D)
Gregg Harper		District 3	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Chip Pickering (R)
Steven Palazzo		District 4	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Gene Taylor (D)

Historical members

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

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Mississippi
Party	Total
Republican	11
Democratic	30
Jacksonian	5
Anti-Jacksonian	1
Whig	3
Total Senators	50

Class 1 Senators from Mississippi
Senator	Years Served	Party
Walter Leake	1817-1820	Republican
David Holmes	1820-1825	Republican
Powhatan Ellis	1825-1826	J
Thomas B. Reed	1826-1827	J
Powhatan Ellis	1827-1832	J
John Black	1832-1838	J,AJ,W
James F. Trotter	1838-1838	Democratic
Thomas Hickman Williams	1838-1839	Democratic
John Henderson	1839-1845	W
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	Republican
Thomas B. Reed	1829-1829	J
Robert H. Adams	1830-1830	J
George Poindexter	1830-1835	J,AJ
Robert J. Walker	1835-1845	Democratic
Joseph W. Chalmers	1845-1847	Democratic
Henry Stuart Foote	1847-1852	Democratic
Walker Brooke	1852-1853	W
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 P.	1919-1941	Democratic
James O. Eastland	1941-1941	Democratic
Wall Doxey	1941-1943	Democratic
James O. Eastland	1943-1978	Democratic
Thad Cochran	1978-Present	Republican

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

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Mississippi
Party	Total
Democratic-Republican	2
Jacksonian	6
Anti-Jacksonian	1
Whig	3
Democratic	53
Democratic-Republican	2
Republican	11
Know-Nothing	1
Unionist	3
Independent-Republican	1
Total Representatives	83

Representatives to the U.S. House in Mississippi in the 1800s

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	Democratic
Jacob Thompson	1839-1847	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	1847-1111111	Democratic
Patrick Watson Tompkins	1847-1849	Whig
Jacob Thompson	1847-1851	Democratic
Winfield S. Featherston	1847-1851	Democratic
Albert G. Brown	1847-1853	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	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	Democratic
Reuben Davis	1857-1861	Democratic
Otho R. Singleton	1857-1861	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
L. Q. C. Lamar	1873-1877	Democratic
John R. Lynch	1873-1877	Republican
Guilford Wells	1875-1877	Independent-Republican
Hernando D. Money	1875-1883	Democratic
Charles E. Hooker	1875-1883	Democratic
Otho R. Singleton	1875-1887	Democratic
James R. Chalmers	1877-1882	Democratic
Van H. Manning	1877-1883	Democratic
Henry Muldrow	1877-1885	Democratic
John R. Lynch	1882-1883	Republican
Elza Jeffords	1883-1885	Republican
James Ronald Chalmers	1883-1885	Independent
Otho Robards Singleton	1883-1887	Democratic
Henry Van Eaton	1883-1887	Democratic
James R. Chalmers	1884-1885	Independent
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
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
Hernando D. Money	1893-1897	Democratic
John Sharp Williams	1893-1903	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

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Mississippi
Party	Total
Democratic	47
Republican	9
Total Representatives	56

Representatives to the U.S. House in Mississippi in the 1900s

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	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
Ross A. Collins	1937-1943	Democratic
Jamie Whitten	1941-1973	Democratic
Thomas Abernethy	1943-1953	Democratic
W. Arthur Winstead	1943-1963	Democratic
John Bell Williams	1947-1953	Democratic
Frank E. Smith	1951-1963	Democratic
John Bell Williams	1953-1963	Democratic
Thomas Abernethy	1953-1973	Democratic
W. Arthur Winstead	1963-1965	Democratic
John Bell Williams	1963-1968	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
Jamie Whitten	1973-1995	Democratic
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

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Mississippi
Party	Total
Democratic	2
Republican	3
Total Representatives	5

Representatives to the U.S. House in Mississippi in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Gene Taylor	2003-2010	Democratic
Travis Childers	2008-2011	Democratic
Gregg Harper	2009-present	Republican
Steven Palazzo	2010-present	Republican
Alan Nunnelee	2011-present	Republican