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Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is an American 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.
Mar 12, 2024 · Trent Lott (born Oct. 9, 1941, Grenada, Miss., U.S.) American Republican politician who represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives (1973–89) and in the U.S. Senate (1989–2007). The son of a shipyard worker, Lott grew up in the coastal town of Pascagoula, Miss.
Dec 19, 2007 · JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Republican Trent Lott officially resigned from the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, ending a 35-year career in which he reached the of height of power before falling from ...
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 · Sen Trent Lott's life has been touched by long shadows of segregation; interviews with those who knew him early in life, and previously unexamined documents from his pre-Congressional career,...
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 […]
Lott talks about what it was like to serve in the Senate with Edward Kennedy, as well as many issues such as minimum wage, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, health care, education, tobacco legislation, and immigration reform.
