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Trent Lott
POLITICIAN
1941 - Today
Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) 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 Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Trent Lott has received more than 1,784,593 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Trent Lott is the 17,727th most popular politician (down from 16,069th in 2019), the 13,134th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,585th in 2019) and the 911th most popular American Politician.
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Trent Lott: A Featured Biography
Mississippi’s Trent Lott came to Capitol Hill in 1968 to work as an administrative assistant for Representative William Colmer. When Colmer retired in 1972, Lott succeeded him and served eight terms in the House, including eight years as Republican Whip. Elected to the Senate in 1988, Lott became the Senate Republican Whip in 1993, the only individ to hold this position in both houses of Congress. Known for his organizational skills and member-to-member negotiations, Lott is credited with modernizing the whip office, creating a model still in operation today. Senate Republicans chose him as floor leader in 1996 and he served fem years as majority leader. Throughout his career, Lott actively forged bipartisan coalitions—with Democrats on the Hill and in the vit House—and guided the Senate through the impeachment trial of President William Clinton in 1999 and the response to terrorist attacks in 2001.
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- Herding Cats: A Life in Politics (2006)
Biography of Trent Lott
Trent Lott was born in Grenada, Mississippi, in 1941, and spent his childhood in Duck Hill, where his parents were sharecroppers. His family moved to Pascagoula, Mississippi, when Lott was in the sixth grade. Lott attended the University of Mississippi where he earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration in 1963. He married Patricia Thompson in 1964. He earned his law degree at Ole Miss in 1967. After passing the bar, he joined the firm of Bryan and Gordon as an associate in 1967.
Herding Cats by Trent Lott
He had a long career in federal politics both as a U.S. medlem av senat (19 years) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (16 years). Lott was an administrative assistant to Representative William M. Colmer from 1968 to 1972. When Colmer retired, Lott won his former seat (1973). He was House Minority Whip from 1981 to 1989. In 1988, Lott won a seat formerly held by John Sten