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Article 4, Section 36 of the Mississippi Constitution specifies that the state legislature must meet for 125 days every four years and 90 days in other years. The Mississippi House of Representatives has the authority to determine rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and expel a member with a two-thirds vote of its membership. [1]
Candidates for the House must be at least 21 years old, while candidates for the Senate must be at least 25 years old. [5] Each house has the authority to judge the qualifications of its own members. [6] The Mississippi Legislature is a citizen legislature; most legislators have full-time occupations unrelated to their official roles. [4]
Pages in category "Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 246 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Republicans secured a majority for the fourth time since 2011, the first year when Republicans won the majority of seats in the State House since 1870. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The 2023 elections were marked by new leadership, as the past speaker Phillip Gunn retired, allowing his chief lieutenant, then-Speaker Pro Tempore Jason White to become the new ...
Since 2012, White has represented the 48th district in the Mississippi House of Representatives, which encompasses parts of Attala, Carroll, Holmes, and Leake counties. [3] In 2011, White ran to succeed former Rep. Mary Ann Stevens, also of West, who was a conservative Democrat for the 48th district in the Mississippi House of Representatives. [4]
Pages in category "Speakers of the Mississippi House of Representatives" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kevin Ford (born March 8, 1979) is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 54th district. Elected in November 2016, he assumed office in January 2017.
Huddleston was born on September 16, 1943, [1] in Holmes County, Mississippi, where he was raised by his grandparents. [2] He graduated from Mississippi State University, where he studied accounting, and from the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine.