William Thad Cochran is the senior United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1978, he is currently the ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, having previously chaired that Committee from 2003 to 2005 and also chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2005 to 2007. Cochran is the third most-senior Senator and the second most-senior Republican member. Cochran is running for reelection in 2014, and is the Republican nominee after defeating Chris McDaniel in a run-off election. [More at Wikipedia]

December 7th, 1937 in Pontotoc  /  Died:   May 30th, 2019