List of United States Representatives from Mississippi

Mississippi currently has four congressional districts. The most it ever had was eight, between 1903 and 1933.

Current members

• Alan Nunnelee - 1st district
• Bennie Thompson - 2nd district
• Gregg Harper - 3rd district
• Steven Palazzo - 4th district

1st District

Main article: Mississippi's 1st congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1847–1851	Jacob Thompson	Democratic
2	1851–1853	Benjamin Nabers	Unionist
3	1853–1857	Daniel B. Wright	Democratic
4	1857–1861	L. Q. C. Lamar	Democratic
	1861–1870	vacant
5	1870–1873	George E. Harris	Republican
6	1873–1877	L. Q. C. Lamar	Democratic
7	1877–1885	Henry Muldrow	Democratic
8	1885–1901	John Allen	Democratic
9	1901–1921	Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.	Democratic
10	1921–1953	John Rankin	Democratic
11	1953–1973	Thomas Abernethy	Democratic
12	1973–1995	Jamie Whitten	Democratic
13	1995–2007	Roger Wicker	Republican
	2008	vacant
14	2008–2011	Travis Childers	Democratic
15	2011–present	Alan Nunnelee	Republican

2nd District

Main article: Mississippi's 2nd congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1847–1851	Winfield S. Featherston	Democratic
2	1851–1853	John A. Wilcox	Unionist
3	1853–1855	William T. S. Barry	Democratic
4	1855–1857	Hendley Bennett	Democratic
5	1857–1861	Reuben Davis	Democratic
	1861–1870	vacant
6	1870–1873	Joseph Morphis	Republican
7	1873–1875	Albert Howe	Republican
8	1875–1877	Guilford Wells	Independent Republican
9	1877–1883	Van H. Manning	Democratic
	1883–1884	vacant
10	1884–1885	James R. Chalmers	Independent
11	1885–1891	James Bright Morgan	Democratic
12	1891–1897	John Curtis Kyle	Democratic
13	1897–1898	William V. Sullivan	Democratic
14	1898–1911	Thomas Spight	Democratic
15	1911–1921	Hubert D. Stephens	Democratic
16	1921–1929	Bill G. Lowrey	Democratic
17	1929–1941	Wall Doxey	Democratic
18	1941–1973	Jamie Whitten	Democratic
19	1973–1983	David R. Bowen	Democratic
20	1983–1987	William Franklin	Republican
21	1987–1993	Mike Espy	Democratic
22	1993–present	Bennie Thompson	Democratic

3rd District

Main article: Mississippi's 3rd congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1847–1849	Patrick Watson Tompkins	Whig
2	1849–1851	William McWillie	Democratic
3	1851–1853	John D. Freeman	Unionist
4	1853–1855	Otho Robards Singleton	Democratic
5	1855–1861	William Barksdale	Democratic
	1861–1870	vacant
6	1870–1875	Henry Barry	Republican
7	1875–1883	Hernando D. Money	Democratic
8	1883–1885	Elza Jeffords	Republican
9	1885–1901	Thomas C. Catchings	Democratic
10	1901–1903	Patrick Henry	Democratic
11	1903–1923	Benjamin G. Humphreys	Democratic
12	1923–1925	William Yerger Humphreys	Democratic
13	1925–1951	William Madison Whittington	Democratic
14	1951–1963	Frank E. Smith	Democratic
15	1963–1968	John Bell Williams	Democratic
16	1968–1973	Charles Hudson Griffin	Democratic
17	1973–1997	Sonny Montgomery	Democratic
18	1997–2009	Chip Pickering	Republican
19	2009–present	Gregg Harper	Republican

4th District

Main article: Mississippi's 4th congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1845–1846	Jefferson Davis	Democratic
	1846–1847	vacant
2	1847	Henry T. Ellett	Democratic
3	1847–1853	Albert G. Brown	Democratic
4	1853–1855	Wiley P. Harris	Democratic
5	1855–1857	William A. Lake	Know Nothing
6	1857–1861	Otho R. Singleton	Democratic
	1861–1869	vacant
7	1869–1873	George C. McKee	Republican
8	1873–1875	Jason Niles	Republican
9	1875–1887	Otho R. Singleton	Democratic
10	1887–1891	Chapman L. Anderson	Democratic
11	1891–1893	Joseph H. Beeman	Democratic
12	1893–1897	Hernando D. Money	Democratic
13	1897–1903	Andrew F. Fox	Democratic
14	1903–1909	Wilson S. Hill	Democratic
15	1909–1923	Thomas U. Sisson	Democratic
16	1923–1935	T. Jeff Busby	Democratic
17	1935–1943	Aaron L. Ford	Democratic
18	1943–1953	Thomas Abernethy	Democratic
19	1953–1963	John Bell Williams	Democratic
20	1963–1965	W. Arthur Winstead	Democratic
21	1965–1967	Prentiss Walker	Republican
22	1967–1973	Gillespie V. Montgomery	Democratic
23	1973–1979	Thad Cochran	Republican
24	1979–1981	Jon Hinson	Republican
25	1981–1989	Wayne Dowdy	Democratic
26*	1989 – November 1995	Mike Parker	Democratic
26*	November 1995 – 1999	Mike Parker	Republican
27	1999–2003	Ronnie Shows	Democratic
28	2003–2010	Gene Taylor	Democratic
29	2010–present	Steven Palazzo	Republican

5th District

Main article: Mississippi's 5th congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1855–1858	John A. Quitman	Democratic
2	1858–1861	John Jones McRae	Democratic
3	1870–1873	Legrand Winfield Perce	Republican
4	1873–1875	George Colin McKee	Republican
5	1875–1883	Charles E. Hooker	Democratic
6	1883–1887	Otho Robards Singleton	Democratic
7	1887–1891	Chapman L. Anderson	Democratic
8	1891–1893	Joseph Henry Beeman	Democratic
9	1893–1903	John Sharp Williams	Democratic
10	1903–1911	Adam M. Byrd	Democratic
11	1911–1915	Samuel Andrew Witherspoon	Democratic
12	1916–1921	William Webb Venable	Democratic
13	1921–1935	Ross A. Collins	Democratic
14	1935–1937	Aubert C. Dunn	Democratic
15	1937–1943	Ross A. Collins	Democratic
16	1943–1963	W. Arthur Winstead	Democratic
17	1963–1973	William M. Colmer	Democratic
18	1973–1989	Trent Lott	Republican
19	1989–1989	Larkin I. Smith	Republican
20	1989–2003	Gene Taylor	Democratic

6th District

Main article: Mississippi's 6th congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1873–1877	John R. Lynch	Republican
2	1877–1882	James R. Chalmers	Democratic
3	1882–1883	John R. Lynch	Republican
4	1883–1887	Henry Van Eaton	Democratic
5	1887–1895	Thomas Stockdale	Democratic
6	1895–1897	Walter Denny	Democratic
7	1897–1898	William Love	Democratic
8	1898–1903	Frank McLain	Democratic
9	1903–1911	Eaton Bowers	Democratic

7th District

Main article: Mississippi's 7th congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1883–1885	James Ronald Chalmers	Independent
2	1885–1889	Frederick G. Barry	Democratic
3	1889–1893	Clarke Lewis	Democratic
4	1893–1903	John Sharp Williams	Democratic
5	1903–1909	Frank A. McLain	Democratic
6	1909–1913	William A. Dickson	Democratic
7	1913–1932	Percy Quin	Democratic
8	1932–1935	Lawrence R. Ellzey	Democratic
9	1935–1947	Dan R. McGehee	Democratic
10	1947–1953	John Bell Williams	Democratic

8th District

Main article: Mississippi's 8th congressional district

Number	Years of Service	Name	Party
1	1903–1909	John Sharp Williams	Democratic
2	1909–1933	James Collier	Democratic

At Large

Main article: Mississippi's At-large congressional district

References

• politicalgraveyard.com - 1870s
• politicalgraveyard.com - John R. Lynch