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Auditor / Comptroller | Republican | Phil Bryant on Wikipedia Phil Bryant on OurCampaigns.com

Treasurer | Democrat | Evelyn Gandy on Wikipedia Evelyn Gandy on OurCampaigns.com

Secretary of State | Republican | REVELS, HIRAM RHODES, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., on September 27, 1827; attended Beech Grove Quaker Seminary in Liberty, Ind., Darke County Seminary in Ohio, and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; barber; ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Baltimore, Md., in… Continue reading Hiram Revels

Attorney General | Democrat | HOOKER, CHARLES EDWARD, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Union, Union County, S.C., in 1825; raised in Laurens District, S.C.; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Jackson, Miss.; district attorney of… Continue reading Charles Hooker

Representative | Democrat | WILLIAMS, JOHN SHARP, (grandson of Christopher Harris Williams), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Memphis, Tenn., July 30, 1854; after the death of his parents moved to Yazoo County, Miss.; attended private schools, the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort, the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., the University… Continue reading John Sharp Williams

Representative | Democrat | COLMER, WILLIAM MEYERS, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss., February 11, 1890; attended the public schools and Millsaps College at Jackson, Miss.; taught school at Lumberton, Miss., 1914-1917; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1917; during the First World War served as a private… Continue reading William Colmer

Representative | Democrat | DAVIS, JEFFERSON, (Son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor), a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in what is now Fairview, Todd County, Ky., June 3, 1808; moved with his parents to a plantation near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Miss.; attended the country schools, St. Thomas College, Washington County, Ky., Jefferson College, Adams… Continue reading Jefferson Davis

Representative | Democrat | WHITTEN, JAMIE LLOYD, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Cascilla, Tallahatchie County, Miss., April 18, 1910; attended the public schools and the literary and law departments of the University of Mississippi at Oxford; was admitted to the bar in 1932 and commenced the practice at Charleston, Miss.; principal of the Cowart… Continue reading Jamie Whitten

Representative | Democrat | RANKIN, JOHN ELLIOTT, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Bolands, Itawamba County, Miss., March 29, 1882; attended the common and high schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in West Point,… Continue reading John Rankin