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U.S. Senator · Mississippi
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Roger Frederick Wicker was born on July 5, 1951, in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1973 and a J.D. degree in 1975 from the University of Mississippi. He served in the United States Air Force from 1976 to 1980.
He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2003 as a lieutenant colonel. Voters elected him to the Mississippi State Senate in 1987, and he represented the 6th district from 1988 to 1994. Wicker was a member of the Republican Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2007.
Governor Haley Barbour appointed him to the Senate on December 31, 2007, to fill the seat that Trent Lott left. Wicker won a special election in 2008 and won a full term in 2012. He won again in 2018 and in 2024.
He chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2015 to 2017. In the 119th Congress, Wicker serves on four committees, and he chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. Wicker has been married to Gayle Long since 1975, and they live in Tupelo.
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A December 31 Position That Survived January
A position booked on December 31 is normally unwound by the second business day, once the auditors stop watching. Yet Governor Haley Barbour appointed him to the Senate on December 31, 2007, and the holding stayed on the books through 2008 and beyond. Our own year-end window dressing has never survived a single January without a quiet sale and an awkward email.
Footnote Seven Concerns One Unfashionable Alma Mater
Both degrees, the founder notes, came from the University of Mississippi,¹ with no transfer into a better-connected campus and no stealth-mode semester. ¹ Our own bios list three schools: a weekend bootcamp, a Discord server, and a university that once mailed us a parking ticket and, later, a Distinguished Alumni plaque.
No Win, No Fee: A Term Sheet We Fear
A 1994 Medicaid amendment let the state hire lawyers who would contract private attorneys on contingency, meaning the lawyers eat only if the case does. Partners reread this twice. Our fund bills two percent a year for conviction, collects it in a losing vintage, and calls that alignment. Action item: draft contingency terms for ourselves, then discover why the management fee was never listed as optional.
Sixth Place for Six Years, Per the Minutes
Sixth, the minutes observe, is a poor rank for a manager to hold for six years. Staff clarify that he represented the 6th district from 1988 to 1994, and districts are numbered, not ranked. The chair, whose own sixth-quartile manager has been retained since 1998, asks whether numbering can be applied retroactively.
Memo: Four Committees, One Feed, No Upgrade
MEMO TO FACILITIES: He sits on four committees, and he chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. One person, four draws, no second feed. We note it because our colo hall runs four tenants off one 20-amp circuit and calls it redundancy. Action: label the breaker 'chair' and hope nobody requests a load study.
Sour-Note Detection Rate and the Tupelo Choir
Our Sour-Note Detection Rate measures how quickly a group notices one member drifting off pitch. Wicker is a member of the First Baptist Church Tupelo choir, so every flat note is audited free, live, by whoever stands an elbow away. Our flagship has one listener, its own author, who reports the model sings beautifully. We propose adding a second alto to the evaluation team.
Bureau Reviews a Succession Without a Decade of Rumors
Appraisal: a vacancy opened, and a governor named someone to fill the seat that Trent Lott left. The bureau finds this orderly and requests the study-session minutes. None exist. In its own files, successors are announced after ten years of rumor, and the predecessor is renamed 'a historical comrade' before the paperwork dries.
Form P-7 Asks About Rank at Retirement
FORM P-7, RETIREMENT VERIFICATION. Box 1: Date. He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2003 as a lieutenant colonel. Box 2: Rank at retirement. Box 3: Pension tier. Our plan lists no rank, only 'Tier 2,' which the company says will be explained at orientation. Orientation is also Tier 2.
The Records Annex Has a Green Light
The invite says 'private meeting,' Room B-1, the old records annex. Dana from HR slides over a folder and calls it a private meeting in the Old Senate chamber, visibly pleased with the reference. I look for windows, plaques, anything with a quorum. There's only a small green light on her laptop, 'just taking notes.' The minutes arrive before she reaches my name.
How to Withdraw Your Name From a Codebase
Step 1: Observe that Wicker withdrew co-sponsorship of the bill, and the record simply moved on. Step 2: Try the same with the 40,000 lines of billing code under your name. Step 3: Learn that git blame never lets you withdraw, so every outage still cites you while the hiring portal cites someone else, a smaller number, and a start date.
Distant Relative Disclosed; My Namesake Was Not
If a candidate can be described as a distant relative of former Vice President Al Gore, why does my background-check portal merge me with a stranger of my name in Ohio who owes a casino? Who decides which relatives get disclosed and which get attached? And may I list that namesake as a reference, since he is apparently already on file?
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Republican · Term: 2025-01-03 to 2031-01-03
url: https://www.wicker.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-6253
address: 425 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact