The legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi has convened many times since statehood became effective on December 10, 1817.
Legislatures
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Source for session numbers until 1965 and dates between 1942 and 2021:[1][2][3][4]
Name[5][6] | Session number |
Start date | End date | Last election |
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Mississippi Constitution of 1817 | ||||
1st Mississippi Legislature[7] | 1 | October 6, 1817[8] | February 6, 1818 | September 1817[9][8] |
2nd Mississippi Legislature | 2 | January 1819 | February 1819 | |
3rd Mississippi Legislature[10] | 3 | January 3, 1820 | February 12, 1820 | |
4th Mississippi Legislature[11] | 4 | January 1, 1821 | February 12, 1821 | |
5th Mississippi Legislature[12][13] | 5 | November 5, 1821 | November 24, 1821 | |
5b | June 3, 1822 | June 30, 1822 | ||
6th Mississippi Legislature[14] | 6 | December 23, 1822 | January 21, 1823 | |
7th Mississippi Legislature[15] | 7 | December 22, 1823 | January 23, 1824 | |
8th Mississippi Legislature[16] | 8 | January 3, 1825 | February 1, 1825 | |
9th Mississippi Legislature[17] | 9 | January 2, 1826 | January 31, 1826 | |
10th Mississippi Legislature[18] | 10 | January 1, 1827 | February 8, 1827 | |
11th Mississippi Legislature[19] | 11 | January 7, 1828 | January 30, 1828 | |
12th Mississippi Legislature[20] | 12 | January 5, 1829 | February 6, 1829 | |
13th Mississippi Legislature[21] | 13 | January 4, 1830 | February 13, 1830 | |
14th Mississippi Legislature[22] | 14 | November 15, 1830 | December 16, 1830 | |
15th Mississippi Legislature[23] | 15 | November 21, 1831 | December 20, 1831 | |
16th Mississippi Legislature[24] | 16 | January 7, 1833 | March 2, 1833 | |
17th Mississippi Legslature[25][26] | 17 | November 18, 1833 | December 25, 1833 | |
18 | January 19, 1835 | January 30, 1835 | ||
Mississippi Constitution of 1832 | ||||
1836–1838 Mississippi Legislature | 19 | January 1836 | February 1836 | |
20 | January 1837 | January 1837 | ||
21 | April 1837 | May 1837 | ||
1838–1840 Mississippi Legislature | 22 | January 1838 | February 1838 | |
23 | January 1839 | February 1839 | ||
1840–1842 Mississippi Legislature | 24 | January 1840 | February 1840 | |
25 | January 1841 | February 1841 | ||
1842–1844 Mississippi Legislature | 26 | January 1842 | February 1842 | |
27 | July 1843 | July 1843 | ||
1844–1846 Mississippi Legislature | 28 | January 1844 | February 1844 | |
1846–1848 Mississippi Legislature | 29 | January 1846 | March 1846 | |
1848–1850 Mississippi Legislature | 30 | January 1848 | March 1848 | |
1850–1852 Mississippi Legislature | 31 | January 1850 | March 1850 | |
32 | November 1850 | November 1850 | ||
1852–1854 Mississippi Legislature | 33 | January 1852 | March 1852 | |
34 | October 1852 | October 1852 | ||
1854–1856 Mississippi Legislature | 35 | January 1854 | March 1854 | |
1856–1857 Mississippi Legislature | 36 | January 1856 | March 1856 | |
37 | December 1856 | February 1857 | ||
1857–1859 Mississippi Legislature | 38 | November 1857 | November 1857 | |
39 | November 1858 | December 1858 | ||
1859–1861 Mississippi Legislature | 40 | November 1859 | February 1860 | |
41 | November 1860 | November 1860 | ||
42 | January 1861 | January 1861 | ||
43 | July 1861 | August 1861 | ||
1861–1863 Mississippi Legislature | 44 | November 1861 | January 1862 | |
45 | December 1862 | January 1863 | ||
1863–1865 Mississippi Legislature | 46 | November 1863 | December 1863 | |
47 | March 1864 | April 1864 | ||
48 | August 1864 | August 1864 | ||
49 | February 1865 | March 1865 | ||
1865–1867 Mississippi Legislature | 50 | October 1865 | December 1865 | |
51 | October 1866 | October 1866 | ||
52 | January 1867 | February 1867 | ||
Mississippi Constitution of 1868 | ||||
1870–1872 Mississippi Legislature[27] | 53 | January 1870 | July 1870 | |
54 | January 1871 | May 1871 | ||
1872–1874 Mississippi Legislature | 55 | January 1872 | April 1872 | |
56 | January 1873 | April 1873 | ||
57 | October 1873 | October 1873 | ||
1874–1876 Mississippi Legislature | 58 | January 1874 | April 1874 | |
59 | December 1874 | December 1874 | ||
60 | January 1875 | March 1875 | ||
61 | July 1875 | July 1875 | ||
1876–1878 Mississippi Legislature | 62 | January 1876 | April 1876 | |
63 | January 1877 | February 1877 | ||
1878–1880 Mississippi Legislature | 64 | January 1878 | March 1878 | |
1880–1882 Mississippi Legislature | 65 | January 1880 | March 1880 | |
1882–1884 Mississippi Legislature | 66 | January 1882 | March 1882 | |
1884–1886 Mississippi Legislature | 67 | January 1884 | March 1884 | |
1886–1888 Mississippi Legislature | 68 | January 1886 | March 1886 | |
1888–1890 Mississippi Legislature | 69 | January 1888 | March 1888 | |
Mississippi Constitution of 1890 [citation needed] | ||||
1890–1892 Mississippi Legislature | 70 | January 1890 | February 1890 | |
1892–1896 Mississippi Legislature | 71 | January 5, 1892 | April 2, 1892 | |
72 | January 2, 1894 | February 10, 1894 | ||
1896–1900 Mississippi Legislature | 73 | January 7, 1896 | March 24, 1896 | |
74 | April 27, 1896 | May 27, 1897 | ||
75 | January 4, 1898 | February 11, 1898 | ||
1900–1904 Mississippi Legislature | 76 | January 1900 | March 1900 | |
77 | January 1902 | March 1902 | ||
1904–1908 Mississippi Legislature | 78 | January 1904 | March 1904 | |
79 | January 1906 | April 1906 | ||
1908–1912 Mississippi Legislature | 80 | January 1908 | March 1908 | |
81 | January 1910 | April 1910 | ||
82 | November 1911 | November 1911 | ||
1912–1916 Mississippi Legislature | 83 | January 1912 | March 1912 | |
84 | June 1913 | June 1913 | ||
85 | January 1914 | March 1914 | ||
1916–1920 Mississippi Legislature | 86 | January 1916 | April 1916 | |
87 | September 1917 | October 1917 | ||
88 | January 1918 | March 1918 | ||
1920–1924 Mississippi Legislature | 89 | January 1920 | April 1920 | |
90 | January 1922 | April 1922 | ||
1924–1928 Mississippi Legislature | 91 | January 1924 | April 1924 | |
92 | January 1926 | March 1926 | ||
1928–1932 Mississippi Legislature | 93 | January 1928 | April 1928 | |
94 | October 1928 | December 1928 | ||
95 | June 1929 | September 1929 | ||
96 | January 1930 | May 1930 | ||
97 | September 1931 | October 1931 | ||
1932–1936 Mississippi Legislature | 98 | January 1932 | May 1932 | |
99 | December 1932 | December 1932 | ||
100 | January 1934 | April 1934 | ||
101 | October 1935 | December 1935 | ||
1936–1940 Mississippi Legislature | 102 | January 1936 | March 1936 | |
103 | September 1936 | September 1936 | ||
104 | November 1936 | December 1936 | ||
105 | January 1938 | April 1938 | ||
106 | July 1938 | August 1938 | ||
1940–1944 Mississippi Legislature | 107 | January 1940 | May 1940 | |
108 | January 6, 1942 | March 23, 1942 | ||
1944–1948 Mississippi Legislature | 109 | January 4, 1944 | March 31, 1944 | |
110 | November 2, 1944 | November 3, 1944 | ||
111 | January 8, 1946 | April 10, 1946 | ||
112 | March 4, 1947 | March 15, 1947 | ||
113 | November 12, 1947 | November 15, 1947 | ||
1948–1952 Mississippi Legislature | 114 | January 6, 1948 | April 14, 1948 | |
115 | November 14, 1949 | December 17, 1949 | ||
116 | January 3, 1950 | April 20, 1950 | ||
1952–1956 Mississippi Legislature | 117 | January 8, 1952 | April 17, 1952 | |
118 | November 3, 1953 | December 28, 1953 | ||
119 | January 5, 1954 | May 6, 1954 | ||
120 | September 7, 1954 | September 30, 1954 | ||
121 | January 11, 1955 | April 7, 1955 | ||
1956–1960 Mississippi Legislature[28] | 122 | January 3, 1956 | April 6, 1956 | |
123 | November 5, 1957 | December 14, 1957 | ||
124 | January 7, 1958 | May 10, 1958 | ||
125 | December 2, 1959 | December 24, 1959 | ||
1960–1964 Mississippi Legislature | 126 | January 5, 1960 | May 11, 1960 | |
127 | August 23, 1961 | August 25, 1961 | ||
128 | October 17, 1961 | October 21, 1961 | ||
129 | January 2, 1962 | June 2, 1962 | ||
130 | September 18, 1962 | October 6, 1962 | ||
131 | November 13, 1962 | December 21, 1962 | ||
132 | February 25, 1963 | March 2, 1963 | ||
1964–1968 Mississippi Legislature | 133 | January 7, 1964 | June 12, 1964 | |
134 | June 23, 1964 | July 15, 1964 | ||
135 | June 14, 1965 | July 10, 1965 | ||
January 4, 1966 | June 17, 1966 | |||
November 9, 1966 | January 6, 1967 | |||
June 20, 1967 | June 30, 1967 | |||
1968–1972 Mississippi Legislature[29] | January 2, 1968 | August 9, 1968 | ||
July 22, 1969 | October 11, 1969 | |||
January 6, 1970 | April 6, 1970 | |||
January 5, 1971 | April 5, 1971 | |||
1972–1976 Mississippi Legislature | January 4, 1972 | May 9, 1972 | ||
January 2, 1973 | April 1973 | |||
January 8, 1974 | April 7, 1974 | |||
January 7, 1975 | April 6, 1975 | |||
1976–1980 Mississippi Legislature | January 6, 1976 | May 9, 1976 | ||
June 18, 1976 | June 20, 1976 | |||
January 4, 1977 | April 3, 1977 | |||
August 12, 1977 | August 13, 1977 | |||
January 3, 1978 | April 7, 1978 | |||
January 2, 1979 | April 1, 1979 | |||
May 1, 1979 | May 3, 1979 | |||
1980–1984 Mississippi Legislature | January 8, 1980[30] | May 11, 1980 | ||
January 6, 1981 | April 8, 1981 | |||
August 25, 1981 | August 27, 1981 | |||
January 5, 1982 | April 10, 1982 | |||
December 6, 1982 | December 21, 1982 | |||
January 4, 1983 | April 21, 1983 | |||
June 24, 1983 | June 24, 1983 | |||
November 16, 1983 | November 19, 1983 | |||
1984–1988 Mississippi Legislature | January 3, 1984[30] | May 15, 1984 | ||
June 25, 1984 | June 27, 1984 | |||
January 8, 1985 | April 11, 1985 | |||
January 7, 1986 | April 15, 1986 | |||
May 28, 1986 | June 1, 1986 | |||
January 6, 1987 | April 5, 1987 | |||
August 27, 1987 | August 29, 1987 | |||
1988–1992 Mississippi Legislature | January 5, 1988[30] | May 8, 1988 | ||
August 10, 1988 | August 16, 1988 | |||
January 3, 1989 | April 10, 1989 | |||
April 17, 1989 | April 19, 1989 | |||
January 2, 1990 | April 14, 1990 | |||
June 18, 1990 | June 30, 1990 | |||
January 8, 1991 | May 6, 1991 | |||
December 18, 1991 | December 20, 1991 | |||
1992 Mississippi Legislature | January 7, 1992 | May 12, 1992 | ||
September 16, 1992 | September 16, 1992 | |||
1993–1996 Mississippi Legislature | January 5, 1993[30] | April 4, 1993 | ||
January 4, 1994 | April 3, 1994 | |||
August 15, 1994 | August 23, 1994 | |||
January 3, 1995 | April 11, 1995 | |||
1996–2000 Mississippi Legislature[31][32] | January 2, 1996 | April 19, 1996 | ||
July 11, 1996 | July 11, 1996 | |||
October 11, 1996 | October 11, 1996 | |||
January 7, 1997 | April 10, 1997 | |||
April 23, 1997 | April 23, 1997 | |||
January 6, 1998 | April 5, 1998 | |||
January 4, 1999 | April 4, 1999 | |||
July 22, 1999 | July 22, 1999 | |||
2000–2004 Mississippi Legislature[32][33] | January 4, 2000 | May 7, 2000 | ||
June 29, 2000 | June 29, 2000 | |||
August 28, 2000 | August 28, 2000 | |||
August 30, 2000 | August 30, 2000 | |||
November 6, 2000 | November 6, 2000 | |||
January 2, 2001 | March 30, 2000 | |||
July 23, 2001 | July 23, 2001 | |||
November 1, 2001 | November 7, 2001 | |||
January 8, 2002 | April 12, 2002 | |||
June 21, 2002 | June 21, 2002 | |||
July 30, 2002 | July 30, 2002 | |||
September 5, 2002 | November 26, 2002 | |||
January 7, 2003 | April 16, 2003 | |||
2004–2008 Mississippi Legislature | January 6, 2004 | May 9, 2004 | 2003 Mississippi elections | |
May 19, 2004 | June 30, 2004 | |||
November 8, 2004 | November 22, 2004 | |||
January 4, 2005 | April 5, 2005 | |||
March 12, 2005 | March 13, 2005 | |||
May 18, 2005 | May 27, 2005 | |||
June 28, 2005 | July 2, 2005 | |||
July 15, 2005 | July 15, 2005 | |||
January 3, 2006 | April 25, 2006 | |||
August 24, 2006 | September 13, 2006 | |||
October 5, 2006 | October 5, 2006 | |||
January 2, 2007 | April 25, 2007 | |||
April 27, 2007 | May 18, 2007 | |||
2008–2012 Mississippi Legislature[32] | January 8, 2008[30] | May 12, 2008 | 2007 Mississippi elections | |
May 21, 2008 | August 21, 2008 | |||
January 6, 2009 | June 3, 2009 | |||
May 7, 2009 | May 7, 2009 | |||
June 2, 2009 | June 30, 2009 | |||
July 10, 2009 | July 10, 2009 | |||
January 5, 2010 | April 28, 2010 | |||
January 4, 2011 | April 7, 2011 | |||
2012–2016 Mississippi Legislature | January 3, 2012[30] | May 3, 2012 | November 2011[34] | |
January 8, 2013 | April 4, 2013 | |||
April 26, 2013 | April 26, 2013 | |||
June 27, 2013 | June 27, 2013 | |||
January 7, 2014 | April 6, 2014 | |||
April 2, 2014 | April 2, 2014 | |||
May 8, 2014 | May 8, 2014 | |||
January 6, 2015 | April 5, 2015 | |||
2016–2020 Mississippi Legislature[35][32] | January 5, 2016 | April 24, 2016 | November 2015[34] | |
February 4, 2016 | February 4, 2016 | |||
June 28, 2016 | June 29, 2016 | |||
January 3, 2017 | April 2, 2017 | |||
January 2, 2018 | March 28, 2018 | |||
August 23, 2018 | August 23, 2018 | |||
January 8, 2019 | March 29, 2019 | |||
2020–2024 Mississippi Legislature[36][32] | January 7, 2020 | October 10, 2020 | November 2019[34] | |
January 5, 2021 | April 1, 2021 | |||
2024–2028 Mississippi Legislature | January 2024 | November 2023:[34] House, Senate |
History of Mississippi |
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Mississippi portal |
See also
- List of former members of the Mississippi State Senate
- List of speakers of the Mississippi House of Representatives
- List of presidents pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate
- List of governors of Mississippi
- Politics of Mississippi
- Elections in Mississippi
- Mississippi State Capitol
- Historical outline of Mississippi
- Lists of United States state legislative sessions
References
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- ^ "1798-, Mississippi Council/Senate Journals". llmc.com. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ "Mississippi official and statistical register 1980-1984". HathiTrust. p. 31. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- ^ "2020-2024 Mississippi Blue Book | Michael Watson Secretary of state". sos.ms.gov. pp. 555–556. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
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- ^ Mississippi (1980). "Mississippi official and statistical register". Mississippi Official and Statistical Register: 31. ISSN 0196-4755.
- ^ Mississippi. Legislature. Senate (1817-10-06). "First Session of the First General Assembly". Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi.
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- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1821-22". HathiTrust. pp. 7, 273. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
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- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1823". HathiTrust. pp. 3, 181. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1825). Journal. pp. 3, 127.
- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1826 v.9". HathiTrust. pp. 1–3, 177. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
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- ^ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (1829). Journal. pp. 1–3, 198.
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- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1830A". HathiTrust. pp. 11–13, 200. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the state of Mississippi". Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi. Nov 1831 15th Sess: 1–3, 205 – via LLMC Digital.
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- ^ Manual of the legislature of the state of Mississippi, session of 1870, hdl:2027/hvd.hne9rd – via HathiTrust
- ^ Charles Nolan Fortenberry (1956), "Members of the 1956 Legislature", A handbook for Mississippi legislators, Bureau of Public Administration, University of Mississippi – via HathiTrust
- ^ Charles Nolan Fortenberry (1968), "Members of the 1968 Legislature", A handbook for Mississippi legislators, Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Mississippi – via HathiTrust
- ^ a b c d e f "Legislative session dates", 2016-2020 Mississippi Blue Book (PDF), 2016, p. 720, archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-07
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Further reading
- Dunbar Rowland (1917), "Members of the Mississippi Legislature 1817-1917", Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi (Centennial ed.), p. 190
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:Mississippi Legislature.
- Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Mississippi Legislature
- Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Mississippi Legislature
- Internet Archive. Assorted items related to Mississippi Legislature
- "Guide to Law Online: U.S. Mississippi: Legislative", guides.loc.gov, Washington DC: Library of Congress