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|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]

|spouse=Rose Clayton Cochran

|spouse=(1) Rose Clayton Cochran (deceased)<br>

|religion=[[Baptist]]

|religion=[[Baptist]]

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==Early life==

==Early life==

Thad Cochran was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi. His father, William Holmes Cochran, was the principal and his mother, Emma Grace Cochran, a teacher in schools in Pontotoc, Tippah, and Hinds counties. Cochran, an Eagle Scout in his youth, was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as an adult. He graduated from Byram High School near the capital city of [[Jackson]] and received in 1959 a B.A. degree from the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford with a major in psychology and a minor in [[political science]]. Cochran switched to Republican affiliation in the 1960s and went on to serve as Mississippi executive director of [[Richard Nixon]]'s 1968 presidential campaign, which fared poorly in Mississippi, losing to [[Alabama]] former Governor [[George Wallace]], running on the American Independent Party label.

Thad Cochran was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi. His father, William Holmes Cochran, was the principal and his mother, Emma Grace Cochran, a teacher in schools in Pontotoc, Tippah, and Hinds counties. Cochran, an [[Eagle Scout]] in his youth, was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as an adult. He graduated from Byram High School near the capital city of [[Jackson]] and received in 1959 a B.A. degree from the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford with a major in psychology and a minor in [[political science]]. Cochran switched to Republican affiliation in the 1960s and went on to serve as Mississippi executive director of [[Richard Nixon]]'s 1968 presidential campaign, which fared poorly in Mississippi, losing to [[Alabama]] former Governor [[George Wallace]], running on the American Independent Party label.

==Political career==

==Political career==