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'''Christopher D. Caughman''', known as '''Chris Caughman''' (born October 14, 1967), is a [[banker]] from Mendenhall, [[Mississippi]], who has since 2016 represented District 35 in the Mississippi State Senate. The district embraces Copiah, Rankin, and Simpson counties in the [[suburb]]an area south of the capital city of [[Jackson]] in the south central portion of his state.<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/caughman.xml|title=Chris Caughman|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>

'''Christopher D. Caughman''', known as '''Chris Caughman''' (born October 14, 1967), is a [[banker]] from Mendenhall, [[Mississippi]], who has represented District 35 in the Mississippi State Senate since 2016. The district embraces Copiah, Rankin, and Simpson counties in the [[suburb]]an area south of the capital city of [[Jackson]] in the south central portion of his state.<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/caughman.xml|title=Chris Caughman|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>

Caughman was educated at the private Simpson Academy in Mendenhall, the Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Mississippi, and Belhaven University, a private [[Christian]] liberal arts institution in Jackson from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1989. He is also a graduate of the [[University of Mississippi]] School of Banking at Oxford. A former teacher and basketball coach,<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/156323/chris-caughman#|title=Chris Caughman's Biography|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref> he is  the senior vice president of People's Bank in Mendenhall. He is a [[Baptist]]. He and his wife, the former Melissa Hilton, have three children.<ref name=billstatus/>

Caughman was educated at the private Simpson Academy in Mendenhall, the Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Wesson, Mississippi, and Belhaven University, a private [[Christian]] liberal arts institution in Jackson from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1989. He is also a graduate of the [[University of Mississippi]] School of Banking at Oxford. A former teacher and basketball coach,<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/156323/chris-caughman#|title=Chris Caughman's Biography|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref> he is  the senior vice president of People's Bank in Mendenhall. He is a [[Baptist]]. He and his wife, the former Melissa Hilton, have three children.<ref name=billstatus/>