Trent Lott

Chester Trent Lott Sr born October 9 1941 is an American lobbyist lawyer author and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007 Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic Later in his career he served twice as Senate Majority Leader and also alternately Senate Minority Leader In 2003 he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmonds 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid