Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional, confederate, other governorships, and other federal offices held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Mississippi except where noted. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.
| Name | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Senate | |||
| William C. C. Claiborne | 1801–1805 (territorial) | U.S. Representative from Tennessee, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Governor of Orleans Territory, Governor of Louisiana | ||
| Robert Williams | 1805–1809 (territorial) | U.S. Representative from North Carolina | ||
| David Holmes (politician) | 1809–1820, 1826 | S | U.S. Representative from Virginia | |
| George Poindexter | 1820–1822 | H | S | Territorial Delegate, President pro tempore of the Senate |
| Walter Leake | 1822–1825 | S | ||
| John A. Quitman | 1835–1836, 1850–1851 | H | ||
| Tilghman Tucker | 1842–1844 | H | ||
| Albert G. Brown | 1844–1848 | H | S | Confederate Senator |
| Henry S. Foote | 1852–1854 | S | Confederate Representative | |
| John J. McRae | 1854–1857 | H | S | Confederate Representative |
| William McWillie | 1857–1859 | H | ||
| Adelbert Ames | 1868–1870, 1874–1876 | S | ||
| James L. Alcorn | 1870–1871 | S* | ||
| Anselm J. McLaurin | 1896–1900 | S | ||
| James K. Vardaman | 1904–1908 | S | ||
| Theodore G. Bilbo | 1916–1920, 1928–1932 | S | ||
| Paul B. Johnson, Sr. | 1940–1943 | H | ||
| James P. Coleman | 1956–1960 | Fifth Circuit Court Judge | ||
| John Bell Williams | 1968–1972 | H | ||
| Ray Mabus | 1988–1992 | Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, United States Secretary of the Navy | ||
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