Editing Roger Wicker (section)

{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (born 1951)}}
{{redirect|Senator Wicker|the Virginia state senate member|John J. Wicker Jr.}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Roger Wicker
| image               = Roger Wicker Portrait 2018 full.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2018
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Mississippi]]
| alongside           = [[Cindy Hyde-Smith]]
| term_start          = December 31, 2007
| term_end            = 
| predecessor         = [[Trent Lott]]
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| office1             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Senate Armed Services Committee]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 2025
| term_end1           = 
| predecessor1        = [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)|Jack Reed]]
| successor1          = 
| office2             = Ranking Member of the [[United States Senate Committee on Armed Services|Senate Armed Services Committee]]
| term_start2         = January 3, 2023
| term_end2           = January 3, 2025
| predecessor2        = [[Jim Inhofe]]
| successor2          = [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)|Jack Reed]]
| office3             = Ranking Member of the [[United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation|Senate Commerce Committee]]
| term_start3         = February 3, 2021
| term_end3           = January 3, 2023
| predecessor3        = [[Maria Cantwell]]
| successor3          = [[Ted Cruz]]
| office4             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation|Senate Commerce Committee]]
| term_start4         = January 3, 2019
| term_end4           = February 3, 2021
| predecessor4        = [[John Thune]]
| successor4          = Maria Cantwell
| office5             = Chair of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]]
| leader5             = [[Mitch McConnell]]
| term_start5         = January 3, 2015
| term_end5           = January 3, 2017
| predecessor5        = [[Jerry Moran]]
| successor5          = [[Cory Gardner]]
}}
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| state6              = [[Mississippi]]
| district6           = {{ushr|MS|1|1st}}
| term_start6         = January 3, 1995
| term_end6           = December 31, 2007
| predecessor6        = [[Jamie Whitten]]
| successor6          = [[Travis Childers]]
| state_senate7       = Mississippi
| district7           = 6th
| term_start7         = January 5, 1988
| term_end7           = January 3, 1995
| predecessor7        = Constituency established
| successor7          = [[Alan Nunnelee]]
| birth_name          = Roger Frederick Wicker
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1951|7|5}}
| birth_place         = [[Pontotoc, Mississippi]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Gayle Long|1975}}
| children            = 3
| education           = [[University of Mississippi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| website             = {{url|wicker.senate.gov|Senate website}}
| allegiance           = United States 
| branch              = {{tree list}}
* [[United States Air Force]]
** [[United States Air Force Reserve Command|Air Force Reserve]]
{{tree list/end}}
| serviceyears        = {{plainlist|
* 1976–1980 (active)
* 1980–2004 (reserve)
}}
| rank                = [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]
| unit                = [[United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps|Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps]]
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|filename    = Roger Wicker on his support for the United States Innovation and Competition Act.ogg
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|description = Roger Wicker supporting the [[United States Innovation and Competition Act]]<br/>Recorded May 20, 2021}}
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'''Roger Frederick Wicker''' (born July 5, 1951) is an American politician, attorney, and [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] veteran serving as the [[Seniority in the United States Senate|senior]] [[United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[Mississippi]], a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], Wicker was a [[Mississippi State Senate|Mississippi State Senator]] from 1988 to 1995 and the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Mississippi's 1st congressional district]] from 1995 until 2007.

Born in [[Pontotoc, Mississippi]], Wicker is a graduate of the [[University of Mississippi]] and the [[University of Mississippi School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.org/details/almanacofamerica00 |title=The almanac of American politics, 2000 : the senators, the representatives, and the governors : their records and election results, their states and districts |first1=Michael |last1=Barone |first2=Grant |last2=Ujifusa |first3=Richard E. |last3=Cohen |date=December 16, 1999 |publisher=Washington, D.C. : National Journal |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He was an officer in the [[United States Air Force]] from 1976 to 1980 and a member of the [[United States Air Force Reserves]] from 1980 to 2003. During the 1980s, he worked as a political counselor to then-Congressman [[Trent Lott]] on the [[United States House Committee on Rules|House Rules Committee]]. In 1987, Wicker was elected to the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 6th district, which included [[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]].

Wicker was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives [[United States House of Representatives elections, 1994|in 1994]], succeeding retiring 27-term [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] Congressman [[Jamie Whitten]]. Wicker served in the House from 1995 to 2007, when he was appointed to the Senate by Governor [[Haley Barbour]] to fill the seat vacated by Lott. Wicker subsequently won a [[2008 United States Senate special election in Mississippi|special election]] for the remainder of the term in 2008 and was reelected to a full term in [[2012 United States Senate election in Mississippi|2012]]. Wicker served as chair of the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] from 2015 to 2017 and is a deputy Republican [[Whip (politics)|whip]]. He became the state's senior senator in 2018 upon the resignation of [[Thad Cochran]] and was reelected again [[2018 United States Senate election in Mississippi|later that year]], defeating Democratic nominee [[David Baria]]. He was reelected again in [[2024 United States Senate election in Mississippi|2024]], defeating Democratic nominee Ty Pinkins.

Wicker serves on four committees in the 119th Congress: the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Rules Committee, and the Senate Armed Services Committee, which he chairs.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/membership | title=Committee Membership &#124; United States Senate Committee on Armed Services }}</ref>