Ronnie shows

Ronnie shows

Clifford Ronald "Ronnie" shows (* 26. January 1947 in Moselle , Jones County , Mississippi ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Between 1999 and 2003 he represented the fourth congressional constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Shows attended Moselle High School until 1965 and then studied education and political science at the University of Southern Mississippi until 1971 . He then worked as a farmer and teacher before he was hired in 1976 in the administration of the Jefferson Davis County court .

Between 1980 and 1988, Shows for the Democrats was a member of the Mississippi Senate . From 1988 to 1998 he was the state commissioner for highway management in southern Mississippi.

In 1998, shows in Mississippi's fourth congressional electoral district competed against Republican tax attorney Delbert Hosemann for the seat in the US House of Representatives previously held by Republican (and former Democrat) Michael Parker . This congressional constituency was seen as one of the best ways for Democrats to win a seat in the 1998 congressional election , partly because its electorate was 41 percent black at the time. According to CNN , shows presented themselves as conservative and down-to-earth (“good ol 'boy”) during the election campaign and emphasized their origins in the working class and thus also convinced conservative whites in the country. Shows also took conservative positions on socio-political issues such as abortion and the right to own weapons, but advocated maintaining the social security system, increasing the minimum wage and opposing free trade agreements. Despite significantly higher spending by his competitor Hosemann on negative TV spots, Shows won 53.4 percent. Shows succeeded Parker on January 3, 1998.

After a re-election in 2000, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 2003. In the 2002 election, the state of Mississippi had to give up a seat in the House of Representatives after the results of the 2000 census , which is why the electoral districts were redesigned. As a result, shows in the third congressional district of Mississippi had to compete against the Republican Chip Pickering , to whom he was defeated.

In January 2008, Ronnie Shows announced his candidacy for the US Senate in the election that same year . In February he withdrew from the election campaign for financial reasons.

Shows lives in Bassfield , Mississippi.

Web links

• Ronnie Shows in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

supporting documents

1. ^ Open Mississippi House seat goes to Democrat Shows. In: CNN.com , Nov. 3, 1998; Robert Pear: The 1998 Elections: State by State - South; Mississippi. In: The New York Times , November 5, 1998; Jere Nash, Andy Taggart: Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008. 2nd Edition. University of Mississippi, Jackson 2009, p. 269. For details on this election, see James M. Glaser: The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics. Yale University Press, New Haven, London 2005, Chapter 2: Give Them He–. Fourth District Mississippi, 1998 , pp. 49-87.