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Biggs is from Kosciusko, Mississippi. She graduated from Kosciusko High School in 1988, [3] from Carolina Bible College with a bachelor's degree in Christian ministries, and from Samford University with a Doctor of Nursing Practice. [4] Biggs is a nurse practitioner and served in the Mississippi Air National Guard, reaching the rank of ...
Cindy Hyde-Smith (née Hyde; born May 10, 1959) [1] is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Mississippi since 2018. [2] A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate.
Lynn Morley Martin became the first Republican woman elected to a House leadership position as vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 1985. Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected in both chambers of Congress; she first entered the House of Representatives in 1940, before her election into the Senate in 1948.
A Republican, Fitch announced her campaign for State Treasurer of Mississippi in February 2011. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] She defeated candidate Lucien Smith in the primary and state senator Lee Yancey in a runoff election for the Republican nomination on August 23, 2011.
The Mississippi Democratic and Republican parties have new executive directors with new goals to move their parties forward. New state party directors want more campaign dollars, young voters ...
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Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes (born August 9, 1968) is an American politician serving as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 108th district. She was first elected in July 2017 in a special election to succeed Mark Formby, who resigned to lead the Mississippi Workers' Compensation Commission. Hobgood-Wilkes assumed office on ...
The Mississippi Republican Party would grow in supporters with then President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who still twice lost the electoral votes of Mississippi. On September 24, 1960, Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon campaigned in the state, the first time a presidential candidate had appeared in the state in more than a century. [ 3 ]