Thomas Arlin Gollott (born September 29, 1935) is a businessman and former state legislator in Mississippi. A Democrat, he served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate before becoming a Republican in 2007. He represented the 50th District from 1980 to 2020.[1] He had served continuously in the Mississippi Legislature from 1968, when he sat as a state representative, which he served until his election as state senator in 1979. He had been a Democrat until 2007, when he switched his affiliation to Republican.[2][3] In September 2017, he became the longest-serving member of the Mississippi Legislature in history.[4] He retired from the Senate in 2020, after deciding not to run for another term.[5]
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- ^ "Tommy A. Gollott District 50 - Harrison Republican". Mississippi State Senate. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
- ^ "Gollott switches to GOP". WLOX. 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ^ Jimmie E. Gates (2013-02-25). "Biloxi Republican Tommy Gollott longest-serving Mississippi legislator in office". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ^ "PEER Member, Senator Tommy Gollott, Reaches Milestone as Longest Serving Legislator". www.peer.ms.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ^ Kessie, Brad; Johnson, Annie. "Mississippi's longest-serving lawmaker announces retirement". WLOX. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
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