Travis Childers Democratic - MS

CHILDERS, Travis W., a Representative from Mississippi; born in Booneville, Prentiss County, Miss., March 29, 1958; graduated from Booneville High School, Booneville, Miss., 1976; A.A., Northeast Junior College (now Northeast Mississippi Community College), Booneville, Miss., 1978; B.A., University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1980; real estate agent; Prentiss County (Mississippi) Chancery Clerk, 1991–2008; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Tenth Congress and to the succeeding Congress (May 13, 2008-January 3, 2011); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Twelfth Congress in 2010; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 2014.