Joe Nosef
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Mississippi |
| Role: | Chair |
| Location: | Mississippi |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •University of Mississippi (bachelor's degree, accounting) •University of Mississippi (master's degree, accounting) •University of Mississippi School of Law (J.D.) •University of Gainesville (L.L.M., taxation) |
| Website: | Official website |
Joe Nosef is the former chair of the Republican Party of Mississippi. He has practiced law in Mississippi since 1996 and has been active in Republican politics since former Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour (R) appointed Nosef to be his chief counsel in 2004.[1]
Career
Nosef earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from the University of Mississippi in 1991 and 1994 respectively. Then, he earned a J.D. at the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1995 and an L.L.M. in taxation from the University of Florida in 1996.[2][3]
After finishing studying tax law, Nosef was admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1996. He has practiced law near Jackson, Miss. since then. He graduated from Leadership Mississippi, a program run by the Mississippi Economic Council, in 1999. In 2001, the Mississippi Business Journal named Nosef among those on its Top 40 Under 40 businessmen in Mississippi list. He practices law at Watkins & Eager PLLC, and focuses on "public finance, corporations, tax, and estate planning and administration."[4][2]
Politics
Former Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour (R) appointed Nosef to be his chief counsel in 2004. Nosef served in that position until 2006, when he left to become Barbour's campaign manager for his successful 2006 re-election campaign.[2][3]
When Phil Bryant (R) was Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, Nosef served as his chief of staff for 2008. Bryant appointed Nosef to the Commission for a New Mississippi in 2009 and then Nosef served as chairman of Bryant's successful gubernatorial campaign in 2011. After the election, Nosef was executive director of Bryant's gubernatorial transition team.[2]
The Republican Party of Mississippi elected Nosef chair in 2012.[2]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Nosef was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Mississippi.[5] In Mississippi’s presidential primary election on March 8, 2016, Donald Trump won 25 delegates, and Ted Cruz won 15 delegates. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Nosef was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Mississippi's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[6]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Mississippi to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district caucuses and the state convention in May 2016. Mississippi GOP bylaws required candidates for delegate positions to submit a written declaration stating "which candidate that person will be bound to support on the floor of the Republican National Convention." Delegates from Mississippi were bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated unless released by their candidate via public statement or in writing.
Mississippi primary results
| Mississippi Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.4% | 1,697 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 1.4% | 5,626 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 493 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 36.1% | 150,364 | 15 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 224 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 172 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.3% | 1,067 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 8.8% | 36,795 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 135 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 643 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 5.3% | 21,885 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 510 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
47.2% | 196,659 | 25 | |
| Totals | 416,270 | 40 | ||
| Source: Mississippi Secretary of State and The New York Times | ||||
Delegate allocation
Mississippi had 40 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 12 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's four congressional districts). Mississippi's district-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis. The first place finisher in a district won two of that district's delegates while the second place finisher received one.[7][8]
Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 15 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[7][8]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Republican Party of Mississippi, "Chairman," accessed March 24, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Republican Party of Mississippi, "Chairman Joe Nosef’s Biography," accessed April 8, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Watkins & Eager, "Joseph D. Nosef III," accessed April 8, 2016
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedWatkins - ↑ Mississippi GOP, "Mississippi Republican Party Has Successful State Convention," May 16, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016 Cite error: Invalid
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