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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.
May 2, 2024 · Trent Lott (born Oct. 9, 1941, Grenada, Miss., U.S.) is an American Republican politician who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–89) and in the U.S. Senate (1989–2007).
Dec 19, 2007 · Mississippi Republican Trent Lott resigned from the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, leaving a post he has held since 1988, spokesman Lee Youngblood said.
Known for his organizational skills and member-to-member negotiations, Lott is credited with modernizing the whip office, creating a model still in operation today. Senate Republicans chose him as floor leader in 1996 and he served five years as majority leader.
Dec 15, 2002 · As a young lawyer making his start in politics in 1967, Trent Lott stunned a racially moderate friend running for governor by campaigning instead for an archsegregationist rival.
Sep 2, 2013 · Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Trent Lott and learn more about the former Republican senator from Mississippi.
Chester Trent Lott served more than thirty-four years as a US representative and US senator from Mississippi. Son of Chester Paul Lott, a sharecropper, laborer, and pipefitter at Ingalls Shipbuilders in Pascagoula, and Iona Watson Lott, a schoolteacher, Lott was born in Grenada on 9 October 1941. An only child educated in the public schools […]
