Travis Childers

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.