Melanie Sojourner was born on January 5,1968 and is an American politician from the state of Mississippi.
10 Facts About Melanie Sojourner
1.
2.
Melanie Sojourner served in the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 37th district.
3.
Melanie Sojourner was born in Centreville, Mississippi, and was raised in Kingston, Mississippi.
4.
Melanie Sojourner is the great-granddaughter of Albert Boyd Sojourner, who was in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1916.
5.
Melanie Sojourner attended Adams County Christian School, which was founded as a segregation academy and uses the Confederate flag as its symbol, and has enrolled her daughter there.
6.
Melanie Sojourner opposed the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Flag of Mississippi.
7.
Melanie Sojourner then worked for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association for eight years, and then as a 4-H associate for Mississippi State University.
8.
Melanie Sojourner served as the campaign manager for Chris McDaniel's 2014 US Senate campaign.
9.
Melanie Sojourner lost her reelection bid to Dearing in the 2015 elections.
10.
Melanie Sojourner was elected back to the Senate in the 2019 elections.