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The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi serves as President of the Senate. The Senate is composed of 52 senators representing an equal number of constituent districts, with 56,947 people per district (2020 census).
The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The bicameral Legislature is composed of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi State Senate, with 52 members. Both representatives and senators serve four-year terms without term limits.
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The Mississippi State Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature. [1] It first met in 1817 and currently has 52 members in each session. [1]
State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the United States Senate; State delegation to the United States House of Representatives; For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Revels also served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1872 to 1873. [2] Blanche K. Bruce, also a Republican, was the 2nd African-American to serve in congress as a Mississippi Senator in 1875–1881. [3] After a biracial Populist-Republican coalition gained power in the late 1880s, the Democrats returned in force to the state government.
Article 4, Section 36 of the Mississippi Constitution specifies that the state legislature must meet for 125 days every four years and 90 days in other years. The Mississippi House of Representatives has the authority to determine rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and expel a member with a two-thirds vote of its membership. [1]
The 2024–2028 Mississippi Legislature first met in January 2024. It is composed of the Mississippi State Senate and the Mississippi House of Representatives . [ 1 ]