    Congressional Directory for the 106th Congress (1999-2000), February 2000.
    [Page 146]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

        THAD COCHRAN, Republican, of Jackson, MS; born in Pontotoc, MS,
    December 7, 1937; graduated, Byram High School, 1955; B.A., University
    of Mississippi, 1959; J.D., University of Mississippi Law School, 1965;
    received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship and studied international law
    and jurisprudence at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland,
    1963-64; served in U.S. Navy, 1959-61; admitted to Mississippi bar in
    1965; board of directors, Jackson Rotary Club, 1970-71; Outstanding
    Young Man of the Year Award, Junior Chamber of Commerce in Mississippi,
    1971; president, young lawyers section of Mississippi State bar, 1972-
    73; cochairman of the Sunbelt Caucus, 1994; married the former Rose
    Clayton of New Albany, MS, 1964; two children: Clayton and Katherine;
    elected to the 93rd Congress, November 7, 1972; reelected to 94th and
    95th Congresses; elected to the U.S. Senate, November 7, 1978, for the
    six-year term beginning January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the
    governor, December 27, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the
    resignation of Senator James O. Eastland; reelected November 6, 1984;
    reelected November 6, 1990 without opposition; reelected November 5,
    1996; chairman: subcommittee on Agriculture Appropriations; subcommittee
    on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services;
    committees: Appropriations; Governmental Affairs; Agriculture,
    Nutrition, and Forestry; Rules and Administration; Joint Committee on
    the Library; Joint Committee on Printing; elected chairman of the Senate
    Republican Conference in 1990; reelected chairman in 1992 and 1994.

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