Thad Cochran
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United States Senator from Mississippi |
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Assumed office December 27, 1978 Serving with Roger Wicker |
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| Preceded by | James Eastland |
| Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Barbara Mikulski |
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In office January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Ted Stevens |
| Succeeded by | Robert Byrd |
| Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Harkin |
| Succeeded by | Saxby Chambliss |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – December 27, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | Sonny Montgomery |
| Succeeded by | Jon Hinson |
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William Thad Cochran December 7, 1937 , Mississippi, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 1967) Republican (1967–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Rose Clayton (1964–2014) Kay Webber (2015–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Mississippi, Oxford (BA, JD) |
| Website | Senate website |
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 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1959–1961 |
William Thad Cochran (born December 7, 1937) is an American Republican politician. He is the current senior United States Senator from Mississippi (the third most-senior Senator and the second most-senior Republican member), first elected to the Senate in 1978, and the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which he had also chaired from 2005 to 2007. He also chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005. Cochran won reelection to a seventh term in 2014, after defeating Chris McDaniel in an intense primary run-off election. He is currently the dean of the Mississippi congressional delegation.
Thad Cochran was born on December 7, 1937, in , the son of Emma Grace (née Berry) and William Holmes Cochran, a teacher and school principal, respectively. His family settled in Hinds County, Mississippi, home of the state capital, Jackson, in 1946 after a few moves around the northern part of the state. He graduated valedictorian from Byram High School near Jackson.
He then received a B.A. degree from the University of Mississippi with a major in psychology and a minor in political science in 1959. There he joined the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity and was on the cheerleading squad (fellow senator Trent Lott was also an Ole Miss cheerleader). He was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He worked as a lifeguard at Livingston Lake in Jackson during the summers.
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