American politician (born 1941)
Trent Lott
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Official portrait, 2007
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In office
January 20, 2001 ? June 6, 2001
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Deputy
| Don Nickles
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Preceded by
| Tom Daschle
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Succeeded by
| Tom Daschle
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In office
June 12, 1996 ? January 3, 2001
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Preceded by
| Bob Dole
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Succeeded by
| Tom Daschle
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In office
June 6, 2001 ? January 3, 2003
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Deputy
| Don Nickles
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Preceded by
| Tom Daschle
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Succeeded by
| Tom Daschle
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In office
January 3, 2001 ? January 20, 2001
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Deputy
| Don Nickles
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Preceded by
| Tom Daschle
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Succeeded by
| Tom Daschle
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In office
June 12, 1996 ? January 3, 2003
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Deputy
| Don Nickles
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Preceded by
| Bob Dole
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Succeeded by
| Bill Frist
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In office
January 3, 2007 ? December 18, 2007
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Leader
| Mitch McConnell
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Preceded by
| Dick Durbin
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Succeeded by
| Jon Kyl
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In office
January 3, 1995 ? June 12, 1996
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Leader
| Bob Dole
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Preceded by
| Wendell Ford
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Succeeded by
| Don Nickles
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In office
January 3, 1989 ? December 18, 2007
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Preceded by
| John C. Stennis
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Succeeded by
| Roger Wicker
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In office
January 3, 1981 ? January 3, 1989
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Leader
| Robert H. Michel
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Preceded by
| Robert H. Michel
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Succeeded by
| Dick Cheney
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In office
January 3, 1973 ? January 3, 1989
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Preceded by
| William M. Colmer
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Succeeded by
| Larkin I. Smith
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Born
| Chester Trent Lott
(
1941-10-09
)
October 9, 1941
(age 82)
Grenada
,
Mississippi
, U.S.
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Political party
| Republican
(1972?present)
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Other political
affiliations
| Democratic
(before 1972)
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Spouse
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Patricia Thompson
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m.
1964)
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Children
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Education
| University of Mississippi
(BPA,
JD
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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
. Later in his career, he served twice as
Senate Majority Leader
, and also, alternately,
Senate Minority Leader
. In 2003, he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator
Strom Thurmond
's
1948
segregationist
Dixiecrat
presidential bid.
From 1968 to 1972, Lott was an administrative assistant to Representative
William M. Colmer
of Mississippi, who was also the chairman of the
House Rules Committee
. Upon Colmer's retirement, Lott won Colmer's former seat in the House of Representatives. In 1988, Lott ran successfully for the U.S. Senate to replace another retiree,
John C. Stennis
. After Republicans took the majority in the Senate, Lott became
Senate Majority Whip
in 1995 and then Senate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee
Bob Dole
of Kansas. Following GOP losses in the 2000 Senate races that resulted in a 50?50 split, Lott briefly became Senate Minority Leader, as Democrat
Al Gore
was still
Vice President
and President of the Senate
[a]
at the beginning of the new term on January 3, 2001. Seventeen days later, Lott was restored as Senate Majority Leader after Republicans regained control of the chamber upon the inauguration of the new vice president,
Dick Cheney
, on January 20. Lott was Senate Majority Leader until June 6, 2001, when Vermont Senator
Jim Jeffords
changed his party affiliation from Republican to
Independent
, and caucused with the Senate Democrats for the remainder of his term. Thereafter, Lott again served as Senate Minority Leader.
Following
Republican gains
in the
2002 midterm elections
, Lott was slated to again become Majority Leader when the next Senate session began in January 2003. However, on 20 December 2002, after significant controversy following comments he made regarding
Strom Thurmond
's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader.
Though no longer in leadership, Lott remained in the Senate until resigning in 2007. Fellow Republican
Roger Wicker
won the
2008 special election
to replace him. Lott became a lobbyist, co-founding the Breaux?Lott Leadership Group. The firm was later acquired by law and lobbying firm
Patton Boggs
. Lott serves as a Senior Fellow at the
Bipartisan Policy Center
(BPC), where he focuses on issues related to energy, national security, transportation and congressional reforms. Lott is also a co-chair of BPC's Energy Project. In June 2020 Lott was fired from the Washington law and lobbying firm
Squire Patton Boggs
while negotiating to join another firm.
[1]
Days later on June 15, 2020, Lott joined Crossroads Strategies along with his longtime colleague
John Breaux
.
[2]
Early life
[
edit
]
Lott was born in
Grenada, Mississippi
, and lived his early years in nearby
Duck Hill
, where his father, Chester Paul Lott, sharecropped a stretch of cotton field. Lott's mother, the former Iona Watson, was a schoolteacher. Lott's father was a philanderer with a drinking problem, and Lott frequently acted as a mediator when his mother threatened his father with divorce.
[3]
When Lott was in the sixth grade, the family moved to
Pascagoula
, where Lott's father worked at a shipyard.
[4]
Lott attended college at the
University of Mississippi
in
Oxford
, where he obtained an undergraduate degree in
public administration
in 1963 and a
Juris doctor
degree in 1967. He served as a field representative for Ole Miss and was president of his fraternity,
Sigma Nu
. Lott was also an Ole Miss cheerleader, on the same team with future U.S. Senator
Thad Cochran
.
[5]
At the time that Lott was president, the Sigma Nu fraternity house was raided by the troops from the
716th Battalion
during the "
Battle of Oxford
". They discovered a sizeable weapon cache.
[6]
Regarding his education, the
Congressional Record
from 1999 quotes Senator Lott declaring: "I am a product of public education from the first grade through the second, third, and fourth grades where I went to school at Duck Hill, Mississippi, and I had better teachers in the second, third, and fourth grades in Duck Hill, Mississippi, than I had the rest of my life."
[7]
While an undergraduate at the University of Mississippi, Lott participated in the effort at the 1964 national convention of the
Sigma Nu
fraternity to oppose a
civil rights
amendment proposed by the
Dartmouth College
and
Duke University
chapters to end mandatory racial exclusion by the fraternity. Lott sided with the
segregationists
who defeated the amendment. The Dartmouth chapter subsequently seceded from the fraternity, and Sigma Nu remained whites-only until later in the decade.
[8]
[9]
Political career
[
edit
]
House of Representatives
[
edit
]
Lott served as administrative assistant to
House Rules Committee
chairman
William M. Colmer
, also of
Pascagoula
, from 1968 to 1972.
In 1972, Colmer, one of the most
conservative Democrats
in the House, announced his retirement after 40 years in Congress. He endorsed Lott as his successor in Mississippi's
5th District
, located in the state's southern tip, even though Lott ran as a Republican. Lott won handily, in large part due to
Richard Nixon
's landslide victory in
that year's presidential election
. Nixon won the 5th district with an astonishing 87 percent of the vote; it was his strongest congressional district in the entire nation.
[10]
Lott and his future Senate colleague,
Thad Cochran
(also elected to Congress that year), were only the second and third Republicans elected to Congress from Mississippi since
Reconstruction
(
Prentiss Walker
was the first in 1964). Lott's strong showing in the polls landed him on the powerful
House Judiciary Committee
as a freshman, where he voted against all three articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon during the committee's debate. After Nixon released the infamous "smoking gun" transcripts (which proved Nixon's involvement in the
Watergate
cover-up), however, Lott announced that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for debate before the full House (as did the other Republicans who voted against impeachment in committee).
Lott became very popular in his district, even though almost none of its living residents had been represented by a Republican before. As evidence, in November 1974, Lott won a second term in a blowout. Cochran was also reelected in a rout; he and Lott were the first Republicans to win a second term in Congress from the state since Reconstruction. They were among the few bright spots in a year that saw many Republicans turned out of office due to anger over Watergate. Lott was re-elected six more times without much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978. However, conservative Democrats continued to hold most of the region's seats in the state legislature, as well as most local offices, well into the 2000s.
In
1980
, he served as
Ronald Reagan
's Mississippi state chairman.
[11]
He served as
House Minority Whip
(the second-ranking Republican in the House) from 1981 to 1989; he was the first Southern Republican to hold such a high leadership position.
United States Senate
[
edit
]
Lott ran for the Senate in 1988, after 42-year incumbent
John Stennis
announced he would not run for another term. He defeated Democratic
4th District
Congressman
Wayne Dowdy
by almost eight points. Lott won by running up a 70 percent margin in his congressional district, and was also helped by
George H. W. Bush
easily carrying the state in the presidential election. He never faced another contest nearly that close. He was re-elected in 1994, 2000, and 2006 with no substantive Democratic opposition. He gave some thought to retirement for much of 2005, however, after
Hurricane Katrina
, he announced on January 17, 2006, that he would run for a fourth term.
In 1989, on the 25th anniversary of the
murder of the civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
, Lott and the rest of the Mississippi congressional delegation refused to vote for the non-binding resolution honoring the three men which nevertheless passed the Congress.
[12]
He became
Senate Majority Whip
when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 1995. In June 1996, he ran for the post of
Senate Majority Leader
to succeed Republican
Bob Dole
, who had resigned from the Senate to concentrate on
his presidential campaign
. Lott faced his Mississippi colleague
Thad Cochran
, the then-
Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference
. Cochran cast himself as an "institutionalist" and who would help to rebuild public trust in Congress through compromise over conflict. Lott promised a "more aggressive" style of leadership and courted the younger Senate conservatives. Lott won by 44 votes to 8.
[13]
As majority leader, Lott had a major role in the Senate trial following the
impeachment
of President
Bill Clinton
. After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with the Senate trial in early 1999, despite criticisms that Republicans were far short of the two-thirds majority required under the
Constitution
to convict Clinton and remove him from office.
Lott generally pursued a conservative position in politics and was a noted
social conservative
. For instance, in 1998, Lott caused some controversy in Congress when as a guest on the
Armstrong Williams
television show, he equated
homosexuality
with
alcoholism
,
kleptomania
and
sex addiction
. When Williams, a conservative talk show host, asked Lott whether homosexuality is a
sin
, Lott simply replied, "Yes, it is."
[14]
Lott's stance against homosexuality was disconcerting to
liberal
Democratic Party
elected officials and the
Human Rights Campaign Fund
, an advocacy group for gay rights.
[15]
According to the
Anti-Defamation League
, Lott was a frequent speaker at the
white supremacist
group
Council of Conservative Citizens
.
[16]
Although he denied knowing of the group's intentions,
[17]
it was later revealed members of his family had CCC membership.
[18]
After the
2000 elections
produced a 50?50 partisan split in the Senate,
Vice President
Al Gore
's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to 20, 2001, when
George W. Bush
took office and Vice President
Dick Cheney
's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again. Later in 2001, he became
Senate Minority Leader
again after Vermont senator
Jim Jeffords
became an independent and caucused with the Democrats, allowing them to regain the majority. He was due to become majority leader again in early 2003 after Republican
gains in the November 2002 elections
.
Resignation from Senate leadership
[
edit
]
Lott spoke on December 5, 2002, at the 100th birthday party of Senator
Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina, a retiring Republican senator who had switched parties from the Democrats decades earlier. Thurmond had run for
President of the United States
in 1948 on the
Dixiecrat
(or States' Rights Democratic) ticket. Lott said: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either."
[19]
Thurmond had based his presidential campaign largely on an explicit
States' Rights
platform that challenged the
Civil Rights Movement
and later, the
Civil Rights Act
as illegally overturning the
separation of powers under the United States Constitution
and called for the preservation of
racial segregation
.
The Washington Post
reported that Lott had made similar comments about Thurmond's candidacy in a 1980 rally.
[19]
Lott gave an interview to
BET
explaining himself and repudiating Thurmond's former views.
[20]
In the wake of the controversy, Lott resigned as Senate Republican Leader on December 20, 2002, effective at the start of the next session, January 3, 2003.
Bill Frist
of
Tennessee
was later elected to the leadership position. In the book
Free Culture
,
Lawrence Lessig
argues that Lott's resignation would not have occurred had it not been for the effect of Internet
blogs
. He says that though the story "disappear[ed] from the mainstream press within forty-eight hours", "bloggers kept researching the story" until, "finally, the story broke back into the mainstream press."
[21]
The New York Times
, however, attributed his resignation to "ruthless maneuvering" by
Karl Rove
and George W. Bush to depose Lott, "a threat to the president’s agenda", and replace him with Frist, who had "long been the president's choice."
[22]
After losing the Majority Leader post, Lott was less visible on the national scene, although he did break with some standard
conservative
positions. He battled with Bush over military base closures in his home state. He showed support for passenger rail initiatives, notably his 2006 bipartisan introduction, with Sen.
Frank Lautenberg
of
New Jersey
, of legislation to provide 80 percent federal matching grants to intercity rail and guarantee adequate funding for
Amtrak
.
[23]
On July 18, 2006, Lott voted with 19 Republican senators for the
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
to lift restrictions on federal funding for the research. On November 15, 2006, Lott regained a leadership position in the Senate, when he was named Minority Whip after defeating
Lamar Alexander
of
Tennessee
25?24.
[24]
Senator
John E. Sununu
(R) of
New Hampshire
said, after Lott's election as Senate Minority Whip, "He understands the rules. He's a strong negotiator." Former
House Speaker
Newt Gingrich
(R) said he's "the smartest legislative politician I've ever met."
[25]
2006 re-election campaign
[
edit
]
Lott faced no Republican opposition in his primary race. State representative
Erik R. Fleming
placed first of four candidates in the June Democratic primary, but did not receive the 50 percent of the vote required to earn the party's nomination. Fleming and the second-place finisher, business consultant Bill Bowlin, faced off in a runoff on June 27, which Fleming won with 65% of the vote. Fleming criticized Lott for not doing enough to alleviate poverty in "the poorest state in the nation." Fleming's bid was viewed as a longshot, and Lott handily defeated him with 64% of the vote in November.
[26]
[27]
Resignation
[
edit
]
On November 26, 2007, Lott announced that he would resign his Senate seat by the end of 2007.
[28]
According to
CNN
, his resignation was at least partly due to the
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
, which forbade lawmakers from lobbying for two years after leaving office. Those who left by the end of 2007 were covered by the previous law, which he cosponsored and which required a wait of only one year.
[29]
In an interview regarding his resignation, Lott said that the new law "didn't have a big role" in his decision to resign.
[30]
Lott's resignation became effective at 11:30 p.m. on December 18, 2007.
[31]
On January 7, 2008, it was announced that Lott and former Senator
John Breaux
of
Louisiana
, a Democrat, opened their lobbying firm about a block from the White House.
[32]
Post-Senate career
[
edit
]
In January 2008, he co-founded the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, a "strategic advice, consulting, and lobbying" firm together with former Louisiana Senator
John Breaux
.
[33]
[34]
The firm was later acquired by law and lobbying firm
Patton Boggs
,
[35]
now
Squire Patton Boggs
following the June 2014 merger with
Squire Sanders
. In September 2014, lobbyist filings revealed that Lott was contracted to advocate on behalf of
Gazprombank
, a Russian majority state-owned bank targeted with sanctions over the
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
.
[36]
Lott was fired by Squire Patton Boggs in June 2020; no explanation was initially provided for his departure.
[37]
The firm later said Lott was removed because of the
anti-racism 2020 protests
, though Lott was already in negotiations to leave the firm. Lott joined lobbying firm Crossroad Strategies; John Breaux joined shortly after leaving Squire Patton Boggs.
[38]
Lott also served on the EADS North America (now known as
Airbus
) board of directors.
[39]
[40]
On February 14, 2009,
The New York Times
reported the indictment of Judge
Bobby DeLaughter
for taking bribes from
Richard Scruggs
, Lott's brother-in-law. Scruggs represented Lott in litigation against
State Farm Insurance
company after the insurer refused to pay claims for the loss of his Mississippi home in
Hurricane Katrina
.
[41]
According to
The New York Times,
federal prosecutors have said that Lott was induced by Scruggs to offer DeLaughter a federal judgeship in order to gain the judge's favor.
[42]
In 2012, Lott testified in federal court that he never told DeLaughter that he would be recommended for a federal judgeship.
[43]
For the 2016 presidential election, Lott served as a national co-chair for John Kasich, before shifting his support to
Donald Trump's campaign
once he became the nominee.
[44]
In 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen
's television program
Who Is America?
premiered showing Lott supporting the "kinderguardians program" which supported training toddlers with firearms. Lott appeared not to know it was a hoax.
[45]
Lott has been named an Honorary Patron of the
University Philosophical Society
,
Trinity College, Dublin
.
[46]
Lott is on the Board of Selectors of
Jefferson Awards for Public Service
.
[47]
Memoir
[
edit
]
Lott's memoir, entitled
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics
, was published in 2005. In the book, Lott spoke about the remark he made at the Strom Thurmond birthday party, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and his feelings of betrayal toward the Tennessee senator, claiming "If Frist had not announced exactly when he did, as the fire was about to burn out, I would still be majority leader of the Senate today."
[48]
He also described former Democratic Leader
Tom Daschle
of
South Dakota
as "trustworthy".
[49]
He also revealed that President
George W. Bush
, then?Secretary of State
Colin Powell
, and other GOP leaders played a major role in ending his career as Senate Republican Leader.
[50]
Personal life
[
edit
]
Lott married Patricia Thompson on December 27, 1964. The couple has two children: Chester Trent "Chet" Lott Jr., and Tyler Lott.
[
citation needed
]
Lott is a
Freemason
, and holds the Grand Cross in the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States
in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
[51]
Legacy
[
edit
]
Trent Lott Academy in the
Pascagoula School District
is named after him.
[52]
[53]
Lott is also the namesake of
Trent Lott International Airport
in
Moss Point, Mississippi
.
[54]
The character of
Lott Dod
from the film
Star Wars: Episode I ? The Phantom Menace
is named after him.
[55]
The Trent Lott Leadership Institute is named after him, located at his alma mater, the
University of Mississippi
.
[56]
Lott has been quoted as being opposed to homosexuality, comparing it to alcoholism, amongst other things.
[57]
Explanatory notes
[
edit
]
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In the event of a tie vote on the Senate floor, the constitution states that the Vice President casts the deciding vote.
References
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Citations
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Theodoric Meyer,
"Trent Lott fired by top lobbying firm: Squire Patton Boggs gave no reason for the sudden departure, but Lott said in an interview he was negotiating to join another firm"
.
POLITICO
, June 9, 2020.
- ^
Theodoric Meyer,
"Trent Lott and John Breaux sign on at Crossroads Strategies"
.
POLITICO
, June 15, 2020.
- ^
Lott, Tren (August 23, 2005).
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics
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ISBN
9780060599317
.
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.
Rome News-Tribune
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- ^
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.
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.
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, p. 281.
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.
Congressional Record
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- ^
Sweet, Kimberly (December 18, 2002). "Duke frat alumni recall taking anti-segregation stand Sen. Lott's role renews interest in '64 Sigma Nu vote".
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.
- ^
Tumulty, Karen (December 12, 2002).
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.
Time
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- ^
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(1976), p. 465.
- ^
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,
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.
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.
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.
- ^
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.
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.
- ^
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- ^
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.
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a
b
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.
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- ^
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- ^
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ISBN
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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2007
.
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.
The Vicksburg Post
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. Retrieved
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.
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.
FEC.gov
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.
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.
NBC News
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.
- ^
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.
CNN.com
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2008
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"Trent Lott Named To EADS Board"
.
CBS News
. Politico. October 15, 2008
. Retrieved
January 10,
2024
.
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Treaster, Joseph (November 29, 2007).
"Lawyer Battling for Katrina Payments Is Indicted"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
February 1,
2008
.
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Nossiter, Adam (February 14, 2009).
"Civil Rights Hero, Now a Judge, Is Indicted in a Bribery Case"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
March 28,
2010
.
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Associated, The (March 26, 2012).
"Trent Lott testifies as Richard 'Dickie' Scruggs fights conviction"
.
gulflive.com
. Retrieved
February 4,
2020
.
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Pender, Geoff.
"State GOP leaders shift support to Trump"
.
The Clarion-Ledger
. Retrieved
February 6,
2022
.
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"Comedian fools Trent Lott, other GOP politicians into appearing to back arming toddlers"
.
The Clarion-Ledger
. Retrieved
January 10,
2024
.
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"Trent Lott"
.
Bipartisan Policy Center
. Retrieved
January 10,
2024
.
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"Board | youth community | service award | Jefferson Awards.org"
. Archived from
the original
on November 24, 2010
. Retrieved
December 5,
2013
.
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Lott,
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics
(2005), p. 273.
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Lott,
Herding Cats: A Life In Politics
(2005), p. 211.
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Lott,
Herding Cats: A Life In Politics
(2005), pp. 271?272.
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"Bio: Trent Lott"
.
CBS News
. February 11, 2009
. Retrieved
January 22,
2012
.
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Nelson, Karen (January 26, 2007). "Mr. Curry, please close the door".
Sun Herald
. p. 5 – via
Newspapers.com
.
...Pascagoula Junior High, before it became Trent Lott Middle School. In fact, Curry taught the U.S. senator.
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S. Doc. 110-13 Tributes Delivered in Congress: Trent Lott
(PDF)
. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2009. p. 40.
TRENT attended Pascagoula Junior High, which is now called Trent Lott Middle School.
- ^
"AirNav: KPQL - Trent Lott International Airport"
.
www.airnav.com
. Retrieved
May 31,
2019
.
- ^
"What are the politics of 'Star Wars'?"
.
Newsweek
. September 14, 2016
. Retrieved
February 15,
2022
.
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"About the Institute - Lott Leadership Institute"
.
Lott Leadership Institute
. Retrieved
March 6,
2024
.
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Shear, Michael D.; Kaplan, Thomas (December 16, 2020).
"Buttigieg Recalls Discrimination Against Gay People, as Biden Celebrates Cabinet's Diversity"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
December 17,
2020
.
Works cited
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Further reading
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- Lott, Trent.
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics
(Regan Books: 2005).
ISBN
0-06-059931-6
.
- Orey, Byron D'Andra. "Racial Threat, Republicanism, and the Rebel Flag: Trent Lott and the 2006 Mississippi Senate Race",
National Political Science Review
July 2009, Vol. 12, pp. 83?96.
External links
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- Articles
- Lott Decried for Part of Salute to Thurmond
[
dead link
]
, The Washington Post, Saturday, December 7, 2002; p. A06.
- Sen. Lott Fights to Save Post as Leader
[
dead link
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, The Washington Post, Saturday, December 14, 2002; p. A01
- Lott Remarks on Thurmond Echoed 1980 Words
[
dead link
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, The Washington Post, Wednesday, December 11, 2002; p. A06
- Sen. Lott's New Spin
[
dead link
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The Washington Post, Saturday, December 14, 2002; p. A24
- Talking Points Memo
, a political weblog, has posted Lott's racially inflected fall 1984 interview with the Southern Partisan and discusses
his long-standing association with a white supremacist group
, the
Council of Conservative Citizens
- Rock Steady
Archived
November 13, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
Candid commentary about his career in Interview with Perry Hicks for
GulfCoastNews.com
- Joe Conason's Journal: Lott's involvement with the neo-Confederate movement, racists and extreme rightists goes way back
, Salon.com, December 12, 2002.
- Bloggers Catch What Washington Post Missed
, The Guardian (UK), Saturday, December 21, 2002.
- Katrina Weighs on Lott’s Decision-Making
,
Roll Call
, September 15, 2005 (subscription required).
- Lott to run again for Senate
, CNN, Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
- A Minor Injustice: Why Paul Minor?
, Harper's Magazine, October 5, 2007.
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