Trent Lott Collection

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Trent Lott Collection

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lott/

A Republican, Trent Lott served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989, attaining the office of minority whip (1981-1989). Lott represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate between 1989 and 2007, where he held the office of party whip (1995-1996 and 2007), majority leader (1996-2001), minority leader (2001-2003), and chair of the Committee on Rules and Administration (2003-2006). This digital collection represents only a fraction of a much larger physical collection which is not yet open to researchers. Due to copyright limits, only a limited number of recordings in this collection are available online. The "campus access" recordings may only be viewed on computers within the University of Mississippi Libraries. For more information, please contact the Department of Archives and Special Collections.

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Lott, C. Trent (Chester Trent), 1941-

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Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is a former American politician and author. A former United States Senator from Mississippi, Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He entered Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career, he became Senate Majority Leader, and, alternately, Senate Minority Leader. In 2003, he stepped ...