Trent Lott
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About
Republican who resigned as U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 2007 after first taking office in 1989. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1996 to 2001.
Before Fame
He earned a public administration and law degree from the University of Mississippi, Oxford.
Trivia
He held his first political office as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for fifteen years.
Family Life
He has two sons, Chester and Tyler, with wife Patricia Thompson.
Associated With
He revealed that George W. Bush influenced his resignation in his memoir Herding Cats: A Life in Politics.
