Editing Roger Wicker (section)

===Appointment===
On November 26, 2007, Senator [[Trent Lott]] announced that he would resign before the end of the year to become a lobbyist. At a press conference on December 31, 2007, Mississippi Governor [[Haley Barbour]] appointed Wicker to fill the Senate seat Lott vacated on December 18, 2007.<ref>{{cite news | last = Rupp | first = Leah | title = Barbour names Wicker to Senate seat | newspaper = [[Clarion-Ledger]] | date = December 31, 2007 |url=http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071231/NEWS/71231008 | access-date = December 31, 2007 }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was sworn in by the Senate clerk just before that news conference.<ref>Nossiter, Adam, [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/washington/01senator.html "Congressman Named to Fill Lott's Senate Seat"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117042401/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/washington/01senator.html |date=November 17, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 1, 2008.</ref>