Mississippi |
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| Area | 48,434 square miles |
| Population | 2,921,088 |
| Major Cities and their Mayors | Gulfport, 72,464, Mayor George Schloegel; |
| Major Industries | Oil, textiles, electronic equipment, transprtation equipment, fishing. Today, agriculture continues as a major segment of the state's economy. For almost four decades soybeans occupied the most acreage, while cotton remained the largest cash crop. In 2001, however, more acres of cotton were planted than soybeans, and Mississippi jumped to second in the nation in cotton production (exceeded only by Texas). The state's farmlands also yield important harvests of corn, peanuts, pecans, rice, sugar cane, and sweet potatoes as well as poultry, eggs, meat animals, dairy products, feed crops, and horticultural crops. Mississippi remains the world's leading producer of pond-raised catfish. |
| State Capitol (Seat of government) | Jackson |
| Governor | Haley Barbour, R |
| U.S. Senators | Roger Wicker, R |
| U.S. House of Representatives | Childers, Travis, Mississippi, 1st
Harper, Gregg, Mississippi, 3rd Taylor, Gene, Mississippi, 4th Thompson, Bennie G., Mississippi, 2nd |
| Secretary of State | Delbert Hosemann, R |
| Attorney General | Jim Hood, D |
| State Assembly Representatives |
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/hr_membs.xml |
| State Counties | Adams County Alcorn County Amite County Attala County Benton County Bolivar County Calhoun County Carroll County Chickasaw County Choctaw County Claiborne County Clarke County Clay County Coahoma County Copiah County Covington County DeSoto County Forrest County Franklin County George County Greene County Grenada County Hancock County Harrison County Hinds County Holmes County Humphreys County Issaquena County Itawamba County Jackson County Jasper County Jefferson County Jefferson Davis County Jones County Kemper County Lafayette County Lamar County Lauderdale County Lawrence County Leake County Lee County Leflore County Lincoln County Lowndes County Madison County Marion County Marshall County Monroe County Montgomery County Neshoba County Newton County Noxubee County Oktibbeha County Panola County Pearl River County Perry County Pike County Pontotoc County Prentiss County Quitman County Rankin County Scott County Sharkey County Simpson County Smith County Stone County Sunflower County Tallahatchie County Tate County Tippah County Tishomingo County Tunica County Union County Walthall County Warren County Washington County Wayne County Webster County Wilkinson County Winston County Yalobusha County Yazoo County |
| State Supreme Court | Chief Justice William L. (Bill) Waller, Jr.
Presiding Justice George C. Carlson, Jr. Presiding Justice James E. Graves, Jr. Associate Justice Jess H. Dickinson Associate Justice Michael K. Randolph Associate Justice Ann H. Lamar Associate Justice James W. Kitchens Associate Justice David A. Chandler Associate Justice Randy G. Pierce |
| Major Newspapers | Mississippi Press Association [Jackson]
The Clarion-Ledger [Jackson] Delta Democrat Times [Greenville] DeSoto Times Today [Southaven] The Hattiesburg American [Hattiesburg] Jackson Progressive [Jackson] Meridian Star [Meridian] Mississippi Business Journal [Jackson] Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal [Tupelo] The Sun Herald [Biloxi] The Times [Hattiesburg] |
| Major television networks | ABC network: |
| Local issues | [To be posted.] |
| Landmarks/images | Mississippi River, |
| 2010 Senate and House races | [To be posted] |
| Download call sheet | You can download a call sheet for your praye/spiritual work, when you sign up to adopt a state. (It's free) |
| Download fact sheet | You can download this fact sheet when you adopt the state. |
| Visualizations | You can have access to view some visualizations online, when you sign up to adopt a state. There are also two DVDs you can purchase with higher quality video visualizations of all the U.S. States that you can use in your services and prayer work. |
