Seven-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who steered billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, has died at 81.
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2005, file photo, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., speaks to a reporter in Jackson, Miss. Seven-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who used seniority to steer billions of dollars to his home state of Mississippi, died Thursday, May 30, 2019. He was 81.
“I’ve never known a more powerful man, nor a more humble man — a true Southern gentleman that loved the great state of Mississippi,” White said. “Thad Cochran was a giant in the United States Senate and one of the greatest champions Mississippi has ever known,” said Wicker, who was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 and has served in the Senate since 2007.
GOP leaders banned earmarking, but Cochran backed Navy shipbuilding efforts in 2015. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, which makes Navy ships, has long been one of Mississippi’s largest private employers. Weeks after four men were arrested and charged in the photo case, Cochran placed second, behind McDaniel, in a three-person Republican primary. During the three-week runoff campaign, Cochran sought support from a wide variety of voters, including African Americans who traditionally vote for Democrats.
Rose Cochran died in December 2014, weeks after the election and before her husband was sworn in for his seventh six-year term in the Senate.During his second stint as Appropriations Committee chairman starting in 2015, Cochran continued working to send money to Mississippi. He and Wicker successfully pushed to get a national historic landmark designation for the home of Medgar Evers, the Mississippi NAACP leader who was assassinated in 1963 outside the house in Jackson.
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