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Ronnie Shows

Official portrait of Ronnie Shows
Ronnie Shows
Former U.S. Representative
U.S. Representative MS – District 4
Democratic Service: 1999-2003

Democratic
MS (District 4)
House
A Representative from Mississippi. Born in Moselle, Jones County, Miss. , January 26, 1947. Graduated from Moselle High School, Moselle, Miss. , 1965. B. S. , University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1971. Farmer. Teacher. Elected circuit clerk, Jefferson Davis County, Miss. , 1976. Member of the Mississippi state senate, 1980-1988. Elected as Mississippi state Southern District Highway Commissioner, 1988-1998. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1999-January 3, 2003). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002. Is a resident of Bassfield, Miss.