That year, Cochran and Trent Lott ( who later served alongside him in the U. S. Senate ) became the second and third Republicans to represent Mississippi in the House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

Until 1989, Cochran served alongside Democrat John C. Stennis, the longest-serving Senator in Mississippi's history.

The college's building served as a high school for the city of Cochran until 1913, when the high school moved.

Korva Coleman, Corey Flintoff, Jean Cochran, and Bill Kurtis ( referred to in the show as " legendary anchorman " Bill Kurtis ) among others, have served this role.

James Cochran Dobbin ( January 17, 1814 – August 4, 1857 ) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857.

TI members who served as Princeton Football Head Coach include Garrett Cochran, Arthur Hillebrand and Robert Casciola.

Lott and his future Senate colleague, Thad Cochran ( also elected to Congress that year ), were only the second and third Republicans elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

In 1978, Cochran, running for the U. S. Senate in the wake of James Eastland's decision not to run for re-election, then defeated Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent candidate Charles Evers.

Evers siphoned off many African-American votes that would have otherwise gone to Dantin, allowing Cochran to win the Senate seat with a 45 percent plurality.

1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.

While still governor, Finch ran for the United States Senate in 1978, but he was defeated in the Democratic party primary by Maurice Dantin, who then lost in the general election to the Republican U. S. Representative Thad Cochran.

In 1978, Representative Cochran did not seek a fourth term in the House but was elected instead to the United States Senate, where he still serves.

Notable members of the Z Society include Gilbert J. Sullivan, director of the UVA Alumni Association ; George M. Cochran, Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia, Supreme Court of Virginia ; and Cheryl Mills, White House Counsel for Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Fleming won the Mississippi primary for the Democratic Party nomination and then went on and faced Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi's November 2008 Senate election.

William Thad Cochran ( born December 7, 1937 ) is the senior United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party.

Cochran grew up as a Democrat, but became a Republican sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s.

Cochran won the Republican nomination for the Jackson-based district, which was renumbered as after redistricting.

Cochran quickly became very popular in this district, even though almost none of its living residents had been represented by a Republican before.

He later developed a good relationship with Eastland's successor, Republican Thad Cochran.

Cochran and Chuck Yeager being presented with the Harmon International Trophies by President Dwight EisenhowerA lifelong Republican, Cochran, as a result of her involvement in politics and the military, would become close friends with General Dwight Eisenhower.

Politically ambitious, Cochran ran for Congress in 1956 from California's 29th Congressional District as the candidate for the Republican Party.

In mid-December 2009, Collins was again one of three Republican senators to back a $ 1. 1 trillion appropriations bill for the fiscal year beginning in 2010, joining Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Kit Bond of Missouri in compensating for three Democratic " nay " votes to pass the bill over a threatened GOP filibuster.

The Committee is currently chaired by Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and the Ranking Member is Republican Thad Cochran, of Mississippi.

Pickering was considered a top Republican contender for U. S. Senator Trent Lott's seat if Lott had retired in 2006, and in 2007 was said to be waiting to see if Senator Thad Cochran would retire in 2008 ; it is widely speculated that Pickering's decision to leave Congress was based on Cochran's decision to run for re-election.

He was an aide to Representatives Charles H. Griffin, a Democrat, and Thad Cochran, a Republican.

He faced incumbent Republican Thad Cochran in the November 4, 2008 general election, and was defeated.

In November 1955, he announced his campaign to run for the House of Representatives as a Democrat and won an election for an open seat against a famous Republican aviator, Jacqueline Cochran.

In an episode of Wings, titled " Ladies Who Lunch ", which originally aired on November 21, 1991, Faye Cochran ( Rebecca Schull ) has a streak of touching every First Lady of the United States from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush.

* Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker ( 1838 – 1903 ), Congressman from Pennsylvania

* Tammy Cochran, country music singer from Austinburg.

* John J. Cochran ( 1880 – 1947 ), Democratic U. S. Representative from Missouri, 1926-1947

Sudan High School is well known for the vast opportunities they provide to students from Lamb, Bailey and Cochran counties.

In 1850, J. G. Cochran came from Missouri with his adopted son, a young African-American free man named George Washington.

Cochran was also reelected in a rout ; he and Lott were the first Republicans to win a second term in Congress from the state since Reconstruction.

Cochran dies in a hospital in Bath, England, from severe brain injuries.

The group, whose style was based upon the sounds of Sun Records artists and other artists from the 1950s, were heavily influenced by Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent and Bill Haley & His Comets.

A view of the A & A, North Pole Bay, and Cochran Bay from across the Quad in a spring fog.

It appears that recognition from his colleagues was quick in coming: In 2005, an agricultural appropriations bill proposed by the Committee Cochran chaired contained a provision ( sec.

Jacqueline Cochran, born Bessie Lee Pittman in the Florida Panhandle, was the youngest of the five children of Mary ( Grant ) and Ira Pittman, a skilled millwright who moved from town to town setting up and reworking saw mills.

Bessie Pittman married Robert Cochran, a young aircraft mechanic from the nearby naval base at Pensacola, at an early age.

Somewhere along the line, she chose to change her name from Mrs Bessie Cochran to Miss Jackie Cochran.

Cochran apparently wanted to hide from the public the early chapters of her life and was successful in doing so until after her death.

Hearing about the WAFS, Cochran immediately returned from England.

Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652. 337 mph, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.

Cochran was also the first woman to land and take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first woman to pilot a bomber across the North Atlantic ( in 1941 ), the first pilot to make a blind ( instrument ) landing, the only woman ever to be President of the Federation Aeronautique International ( 1958 – 1961 ), the first woman to fly a fixed-wing, jet aircraft across the Atlantic, the first pilot to fly above 20, 000 ft with an oxygen mask, and the first woman to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Race.

Though Cochran initially supported the program, she was later responsible for delaying further phases of testing, and letters from her to members of the Navy and NASA expressing concern over whether the program was to be run properly and in accordance with NASA goals may have significantly contributed to the eventual cancellation of the program.