
Bennie G. Thompson
American politician and educator (born 1948)
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.
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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.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
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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