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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Vincent "Vince" Mangold
| office=Mississippi State Representative<br> for District 53 (Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, and Pike counties)
| term_start=2016
| term_end=
| preceded=Robert "Bobby" Moak
| succeeded=
| birth_date=July 22, 1964
| birth_place=Hazlehurst<br>Copiah Counyt<br>[[Mississippi]]
| citizenship=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Michelle Lofton Mangold
| children=Anna Mangold<br>
Russ Michael Mangold (deceased)
| alma_mater=Hazlehurst High School<br>
Copiah-Lincoln Community College<br>
University of Southern Mississippi
| occupation=[[Farmer]]
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| residence=Brookhaven<br>Lincoln County<br>Mississippi
}}
'''Vincent Mangold''', known as '''Vince Mangold''' (born July 22, 1964), is a [[farmer]] from Brookhaven, [[Mississippi]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 53, which encompasses Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, and Pike counties in the southwestern portion of his state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/house/mangold.xml|title=Vince Mangold|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

A native of Hazlehurst in Copiah County, Mangold graduated from Hazlehurst High School, the Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Mississippi, and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Since 1995, he owned Mangold Farms. He is a former [[insurance]] agent and has been the sales manager of Hazlehurst Lumber. He is a [[deacon]] in the Fair River [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Brookhaven, which was established in 1815, well before the formation of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]].<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/156355/vince-mangold#.Wd-MTrpFzb0|title=Vince Mangold's Biography|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

Mangold ran unopposed in the 2015 Republican legislative primary. In the [[general election]], he toppled the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] incumbent, Robert "Bobby" Moak (born 1958), 4,389 votes (55.9 percent) to 3,460 (44.1 percent). The representative since 1984, Moak (born 1958) is an [[attorney]] in the municipal hamlet of Bogue Chitto in Lincoln County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ms.gov/Elections-Voting/Pages/2015-General-Election.aspx|title=General election returns|date=November 3, 2015|publisher=Mississippi Secretary of State|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

Mangold serves on these House committees: (1) Agriculture (chairman), (2) Conservation and Water Resources, (3) Education, (4) Forestry, (5) Marine Resources, (6) Military Affairs, (7) Transportation, and Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.<ref name=pvs/> In 2016, Representative Mangold voted to prohibit dismemberment abortions. He co-sponsored the measure to expand exemptions for compulsory school vaccinations. He voted to grant civil and criminal immunity to those reporting what they believe are instances of [[terrorism]]. He supported legislation to permit churches to have designated personnel with firearms for the overall protection of the congregation. He voted to guarantee protections for religious beliefs and matters of moral conscience. In 2017, he supported the legislation which authorizes additional methods of execution in Mississippi and co-sponsored the measure to classify the killing of first responders as first-degree [[murder]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/156355/vince-mangold#.Wd-RC7pFzb0|title=Vince Mangold's Voting Record|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}</ref>

==See also==
Other Mississippi Republican state House members:
*[[William Tracy Arnold]]
*[[Dana Criswell]]
*[[Steve Hopkins]]
*[[Trey Lamar]]
*[[Shane Aguirre]]
*[[Jeff Hale]]
*[[Dan Eubanks]]
*[[Robert Foster]]
*[[Ashley Henley]]
*[[Rob Roberson]]
*[[Karl Oliver]]
*[[Bill Kinkade]]

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