U.S. representative (Brandon) Thomas C. Hindman (1828–1868), U.S. representative from Arkansas (Ripley) Jon Hinson (1942–1995), U.S. representative (Tylertown) David Holmes (1769–1832), first Governor of Mississippi Jim Hood (born 1962), Attorney General of Mississippi (New Houlka) Delbert Hosemann (born 1947), Mississippi secretary of state (Vicksburg) Benjamin G. Humphreys (1808–1882), governor (Claiborne County) Benjamin G. Humphreys II (1865–1923), U.S. representative (Claiborne County) William Y. Humphreys (1890–1933), U.S. representative (Greenville) Paul B. Johnson Jr. (1916–1985), governor (Hattiesburg) Paul B. Johnson Sr. (1880–1943), judge/governor (Hattiesburg) Pete Johnson (born 1948), state auditor, co-chair of Delta Regional Authority (Clarksdale) Daryl Jones (born 1955), Florida legislator, attorney (Jackson) Penne Percy Korth (born 1942), diplomat (Hattiesburg L. Q. C. Lamar (1825–1893), U.S. senator and supreme court justice (Oxford) Greenwood LeFlore (1800–1865), Choctaw chief, state senator Mamie Locke (born 1954), Virginia state senator (Brandon) Trent Lott (born 1941), U.S. senator and Senate Majority Leader (Grenada) Chokwe Lumumba (1947–2014), activist, attorney, mayor of Jackson John R. Lynch (1847–1939), first African-American speaker of the Mississippi House, U.S. representative (Natchez) Ray Mabus (born 1948), governor and Secretary of the Navy (Starkville) Lewis McAllister (born 1932), state representative (Meridian) Glenn McCullough (born 1954), mayor of Tupelo (Tupelo) Chris McDaniel (born 1971), state senator (Laurel) Anselm J. McLaurin (1848–1909), governor (Brandon) Hernando Money (1839–1912), U.S. senator (Carrollton) Frank A. Montgomery (1830–1903), state representative and circuit judge (Adams County) Isaiah Montgomery (1847–1924), founder, mayor of (Mound Bayou, Mississippi) Sonny Montgomery (1920–2006), U.S. representative (Meridian) Mike Moore (born 1952), Mississippi attorney general (Pascagoula) Stanford Morse (1926–2002), state senator (Gulfport) Henry L. Muldrow (1837–1905), U.S. representative and First Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Lowndes County) Ronnie Musgrove (born 1956), governor (Tocowa) David Myers (born 1961), politician, state representative (Magee) Spencer Myrick (1918–1991), Louisiana legislator (Simpson County) Edmond F. Noel (1856–1927), governor (Lexington) Joe Nosef (born 1969), attorney, chairman of Mississippi Republican Party (Clarksdale) Alan Nunnelee (1958–2015), state senator (Tupelo) Rod Paige (born 1933), U.S. secretary of education (Monticello) Rubel Phillips (1925–2011), gubernatorial candidate Corinth Chip Pickering (born 1963), U.S. representative (Laurel) Stacey Pickering (born 1968), state auditor (Laurel) John E. Rankin (1882–1960), U.S. representative (Itawamba County) Red Shoes (died 1747), assassinated Choctaw leader Clarke Reed (born 1928), state Republican chairman (Greenville) Jack Reed (1924–2016), Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1987 Bill Renick (born 1954), mayor, governor's chief of staff (Ashland) Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901), first African-American U.S. senator (Claiborne County) Carol Schwartz (born 1944), District of Columbia politician