Election Day: Nov. 6, 2018
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2018 U.S. Senate Special Election Endorsement: Chris McDaniel
Mississippi Senator Election Race
Thad Cochran (R)Mississippi Candidates for US Congress from MS
Mississippi Congress Candidates
District 1:
Trent Kelly (R)
Jacob Owens (D)
Chase Wilson (Libertarian)
Cathy Toole (Reform)
Roger Gerrard (Veterans)
District 2:
Bennie Thompson (D)
John Bouie II (R)
Johnny McLeod (Reform)
Troy Alan (Independent)
District 3:
Gregg Harper (R)
Dennis Quinn (D)
Lajena Sheets (Reform)
District 4:
Steven Palazzo (R)
Mark Gladney (D)
Ric McCluskey (Libertarian)
Shawn O'Hara (Reform)
History of Mississippi. Information that every Mississippi Election Candidates for US Senate Should Know:
The first major European expedition into the territory that became Mississippi was that of Hernando de Soto who passed through in 1540. The French claimed the territory that included Mississippi as part of their colony of New France and started settlement. They created the first Fort Maurepas under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville on the site of modern Ocean Springs (or Old Biloxi) in 1699.
In 1716, the French founded Natchez as Fort Rosalie; it became the dominant town and trading post of the area. In the early 18th century, the Roman Catholic Church created pioneer parishes at Old Biloxi/Ocean Springs and Natchez. The church also established seven pioneer parishes in Louisiana and two in Alabama, which was also part of New France.
The French and later Spanish colonial rule influenced early social relations of the settlers who held enslaved Africans. As in Louisiana, for a period there grew a third class of free people of color, whose origin was chiefly as descendants of white planters and enslaved African or African-American mothers. The planters often had formally supportive relationships with their mistresses of color and arranged for freedom for them and their multiracial children. The fathers sometimes passed on property or arranged for the apprenticeship or education of children so they could learn a trade. Free people of color often migrated to New Orleans, where there was more opportunity for work and a bigger community.
Like Louisiana as part of New France, Mississippi was alternately ruled by Spanish, and British. In 1783 the Mississippi area was deeded by Great Britain to the United States after the American Revolution under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.