Editing Roger Wicker (section)

==Early political career==
[[File:Roger Wicker, official 104th Congress photo.png|thumb|Representative Roger Wicker, 1995]]
Wicker began his political career in 1980 as [[United States House Committee on Rules|House Rules Committee]] counsel to U.S. Representative [[Trent Lott]].<ref name=faststart/> He was elected to the [[Mississippi State Senate]] in 1987, spending $25,000 on the race.<ref name=faststart/> He represented the 6th district, which included [[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]], from 1988 to 1994.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} He amended a 1994 state Medicaid bill to authorize the [[Mississippi Attorney General]] to contract private attorneys on contingency.{{sfn|Crockett|2014|p=74}}