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  Thad Cochran
William Thad Cochran (born 7 December 1937) is a Mississippi politican.
He was born in Ponotoc, Mississippi to William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace Cochran, a principal and teacher, respectively.
Cochran received a B.A. degree with a major in psychology and a minor in political science in 1959.
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 Thad Cochran - Congresspedia
William Thad Cochran is the senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi.
Cochran was born December 7, 1937 in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
Cochran served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference (caucus) from 1991 to 1996.
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 Bio at BlinkBits. Thad Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
William Thad Cochran (born December 7, 1937) is the senior United_States^ Senator from Mississippi^.
Cochran graduated from Byram High School near Jackson and received a B.A. degree from the University of Mississippi^ with a major in psychology and a minor in political science in 1959.
In the 109th Congress, Senator Cochran is Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry committee and the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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 U.S. Senator Thad Cochran - Biography
Thad Cochran was born December 7, 1937, in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
His father, William Holmes Cochran, was the principal and his mother, Emma Grace Cochran, was a teacher in schools in Pontotoc and Tippah County.
In 1978, Thad Cochran was elected to the United States Senate becoming the first Republican in over 100 years to win a statewide election in Mississippi.
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 Thad Cochran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cochran earned Eagle Scout as a youth and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as an adult.
Cochran then defeated Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent candidate Charles Evers to become the first Republican to win a statewide election in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
Cochran's voting record had been fairly moderate by Southern Republican standards, and in many ways was more moderate than that of Eastland, despite Cochran being a Republican.
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 William Winter
William Forrest Winter (born February 21, 1923) is a Mississippi politician.
He served as governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984 as a Democrat.
After finishing his term, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate that year against Republican incumbent Thad Cochran.
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 University of Mississippi - The Department of Archives and Special Collections
A Republican, Cochran represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978.
Williams served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1909, where the Democrat was minority leader and chairman of the Committee on Party Leaders.
Williams sat in the U.S. Senate from 1911 to 1923, where he was on the Committee on the Library, the Committee on the University of the United States, and chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses.
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 Thad Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Thad Cochran was born December 7, 1937, in Pontotoc, Mississippi to William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace Cochran.
The Cochran family moved quite a bit and one time lived in Walnut where Thad started school.
Cochran enrolled in the school of liberal arts at the University of Mississippi and earned a B.A. degree with a major in psychology and a minor in political science.
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 Thad Cochran
Thad, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Miss...
Cochran is the senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi...
Cochran's bill would require the US "to deploy as soon as is technologically possible an...
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 Links at BlinkBits. Thad Cochran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
COCHRAN, William Thad, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi^; born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Miss.,...
In 1978, Thad Cochran was elected to the United_States^ Senate becoming the �rst Republican in over 100......
Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is featured speaker for the semester-concluding exercise that begins at 10 a.m......
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 Thad Cochran | THG Lexikon
Cochran profitierte dabei von den Erdrutscherfolgen der Republikaner bei der Wahl; in der gleichzeitig stattfindenden Präsidentschaftswahl gewann Nixon 49 der 50 Bundesstaaten und errang in Mississippi 70% der Stimmen.
Cochran setzte sich gegen Charles W. Pickering in den Vorwahlen durch.
Cochran war Vorsitzender des Senate Republican Caucus von 1991 bis 1996 und leitet den Landwirtschaftsausschuss von 2003 bis 2005.
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 William Cochran
William Cochran, chair of the Johns 1948-1958 and widely considered of Biostatistics from American...
Cincinnati, O., the oldest Cochran, of William C. grandson of was born in was invited to deliver the Memorial Address.
William Cochran fought Nancy Jane Hughes of William M. and in the Pea Ridge, battles of Corinth, Iuka,...
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 MSU MEMO: May 26, 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), speaking May 14 at commencement at Mississippi State, told the audience that "the dream of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity" is challenged by "an erosion of pride, self-confidence, self-reliance, and character in our society."
In his remarks, Cochran reminded the audience that the chances of being a violent crime victim are now greater that of being injured in an automobile accident.
Cochran referred to a 1952 address in which William Faulkner told a meeting of the Delta Council that "the United States is the whole world's golden envy." That year, the United States produced 40 percent of the world's goods and services and almost half of the economic output, he said.
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 Cochran-Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
William Cochran took the University of Glasgow Bursary Competition in 1927 and he was placed first.
Cochran was established as county seat of Bleckley County on March 19, 1869.
COCHRAN, William Thad, a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Miss., December 7, 1937; educated in the...bioguide.congress.gov/ scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000567 - 3k - Cached - Similar pages Malcolm CochranMalcolm Cochran is a Professor in the Department of Art's Sculpture and Foundation programs.
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Senator Thad Cochran addresses the crowd, minutes after the official dedication of The Thad Cochran Center for Rural School Leadership and Research on Delta State University’s campus.
Delta State University dedicated The Thad Cochran Center for Rural School Leadership and Research with a ceremony honoring the United States senator yesterday afternoon inside the atrium of Kent Wyatt Hall.
Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi in 1937 to William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace Cochran, a school principal and a teacher, respectively, William Thad Cochran graduated from Byram High School near Jackson and received a B.A. degree from the University of Mississippi with a major in psychology and a minor in political science in 1959.
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 Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
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William Thad Cochran (* 7 December, 1937 in Pontotoc, Mississippi) is a US senator for Mississippi.
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 William Cochran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Cochran (30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003), Fellow of the Royal Society from 15/03/1962
William Cochran, 1978 recipient of the Hughes Medal
William Cochran, astronomer and lead discoverer of 16 Cygni Bb in 1996
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 Sen. Thad Cochran to Speak at Duke Oct. 19
Cochran is expected to draw on his 28-year Senate tenure to provide insight into the Senate’s history and its role in American politics
As Appropriations Committee chairman, Cochran is known for using behind-the-scenes influence rather than public demands to accomplish his goals.
Cochran’s environmental protection efforts, such as his authorship of the Mississippi Wilderness Act (the first federal legislation passed for the perpetual protection of lands in Mississippi), earned him The Nature Conservancy’s lifetime achievement award.
www.dukenews.duke.edu /2006/10/cochran.html   (453 words)

  
 Thad Cochran | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com
See how Thad Cochran voted on key votes -- the most important bills, nominations and resolutions that have come before Congress, as determined by washingtonpost.com.
View Thad Cochran's 2005 official financial disclosure statement, which describes the sources, types and amounts of income earned in 2005.
Vote 278: On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Concur in the House Amdt.
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 Thad Cochran - dKosopedia
Thad Cochran is a Republican Senator from Mississippi.
He was first elected to the Senate in 1978, and he served three terms in the U.S. House from 1972-1978.
Thad Cochran On the issues Pro-life, for the death penalty, anti-environmental and anti-civil rights.
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 Thad Cochran | Sunlight Foundation
The two Appropriations Chairs, Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and Thad Cochran (R-MS), are meeting to get the emergency supplemental to the President and have agreed to pare down the Senate's earmarks to make the bill fit Bush's $92.2 billion maximum demand.
Mississippi's Senators Trent Lott (R) and Thad Cochran (R) inserted an earmarked provision to relocate a Gulf Coast railroad that had recently been destroyed and then rebuilt further north to make way for a highway.
Jefferson Win Poses Dilemma for Party: Rep. William J. Jefferson may be a pariah in some Washington political circles, but voters in this storm-battered city weighed in over the weekend with their own verdict regarding their scandal-plagued congressman: He's still our guy.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mississippi
Thad Cochran (R) Trent Lott (R) Time zone
The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives.
Chester Trent Lott (born October 9, 1941 in Grenada, Mississippi) is a racist United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party.
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 Mississippi Thad Cochran
Thad Cochran AKA William Thad Cochran Born: 7-Dec - 1937 Birthplace: Pontotoc, MS Gender: Male...
He was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi to William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace Cochran...
DC Address: The Honorable Thad Cochran United States Senate 113 Dirksen Senate Office...
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cochran
Cochran, Horace Merle (1892-1973) — also known as H.
Cochran, Mary — of Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio.
Cochran, O. — of Nome, Nome census area, Alaska.
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 U.S. Baptist Politicians
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 Trent Lott - Congresspedia
He was administrative assistant to House Rules Committee chairman William Colmer, also of Pascagoula, from 1968 to 1972.
It's very likely that he'd have won without Colmer's endorsement, as this was the year of a titanic Republican landslide which Richard Nixon captured 49 of 50 states and 78 percent of Mississippi's popular vote.
He and his current Senate colleague, Thad Cochran (also elected to Congress that year), were only the second and third Republicans elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction.
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 Cat’s Out of the Bag: New Catfish Line Outperforms Others / May 7, 2002 / News from the USDA Agricultural Research ...
Releasing this superior breeding line should provide greater profits for the industry, according to William R. Wolters, who leads the ARS Catfish Genetics Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss.
MAFES) at the Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center (NWAC) in Stoneville.
Thirty-five selected producers in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and North Carolina were chosen by lottery.
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