The 2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi was held on November 4, 2008. This election was held on the same day of Thad Cochran's re-election bid in the regularly scheduled Class II
Senator Roger Wicker
David Ronald Musgrove
Musgrove campaigning for Senate with Jim Webb in Jackson, Mississippi
Supporters of Musgrove's senate campaign
Trent Lott
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Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lobbyist, lawyer, author, and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Sena
2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi
…necessary as Republican nominee and incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker won election to finish the term. On December 18, 2007, U.S. Senator Trent Lott resigned in his fourth-term to pursue "something else" in the private sector. He ended up starting his own lobbying firm. Mississippi law stated that…
Official portrait, 2007
Lott with President Richard Nixon in 1973
Lott with President Ronald Reagan in 1982
Lott with President George W. Bush in 2001