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The Mississippi secretary of state is an officer of Mississippi originally established under the Article IV, §14 of Mississippi Constitution of 1817, and was reestablished under Article V, §133 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890. Several African Americans served in the office during the Reconstruction era.
The secretary of state was responsible for administering the Mississippi Business Corporation Law and the Uniform Commercial Code, overseeing public lands and elections, and issuing publications on behalf of the state's executive offices and legislature. [11]
A Republican, Britton was elected to the Mississippi Public Service Commission in 2015 but faced defeat in the 2019 Secretary of State election. Britton was married to Robin Robinson, a former state representative and sitting state senator, who was actively involved in the Methodist church, and competed in numerous marathons. He died on October ...
The Mississippi Legislature officially ratified the 13th Amendment in 1995, but the Secretary of State's office failed to officially notify the National Archives at that time. The oversight was identified and reported to Hosemann in 2013, who quickly submitted the appropriate documentation, making Mississippi the final state to ratify the ...
Michael D. Watson Jr. (born December 22, 1977) [1] is an American politician and the incumbent Secretary of State of Mississippi. [2] A Republican, he previously represented the 51st district in the Mississippi State Senate from 2008 to 2020.
Pages in category "Secretaries of state of Mississippi" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Edwin Lloyd Pittman (January 2, 1935 – September 25, 2024) was an American jurist and politician who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1989 to 2001 and chief justice from 2001 to 2004. He also served as the state's attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer. [1]
In 1982 he was elected secretary of the Mississippi Republican Party [8] and convinced the Associated General Contractors to publicly support Republican Haley Barbour in that year's United States Senate election in Mississippi. [9] In 1991 State Auditor Pete Johnson, a former Democrat, entered the 1991 Republican gubernatorial primary. He was ...