Bennie G. Thompson

American politician and educator (born 1948)

IncumbentU.S. House — MS-02DemocraticRunning nowVugol ID VM-GF0-4VSP FEC H4MS02068

Running for U.S. House, MS-02, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/bennie-g-thompson

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · unitedstates.github.io

Bennie G. Thompson — Photo — Photo · Brendan O'Hara, House Creative Services · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Bennie G. Thompson — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. House, MS-02 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
2024 · U.S. House, MS-02 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
2022 · U.S. House, MS-02 · General · Democratic · won · 108,285 votes (60.1%) · incumbent · source
2020 · U.S. House, MS-02 · General · Democratic · won · 196,224 votes (66.0%) · source
2018 · U.S. House, MS-02 · General · Democratic · won · 158,921 votes (71.8%) · source

Background

Bennie Gordon Thompson is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993.

A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson served as the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023. He was both the first Democrat and the first African American to chair the committee. Since 2011, he has been the only Democrat in Mississippi's congressional delegation, and since 2018 he has been the dean of the delegation after Thad Cochran left Congress.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-24 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Thompson

Campaign finance

$770,971total raised (2026 cycle)

$947,613total spent (2026 cycle)

$1,449,522cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC

Website and social

Official websitevia Wikidata

Campaign contact: bennie_thompson@bellsouth.net · source

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Sources

Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Thompson
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817877
Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4MS02068/
photo_headshot — https://unitedstates.github.io/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennie_Thompson_118th_Congress_(cropped).jpeg
photo_gallery — https://benniethompson.house.gov

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