JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Republican Rep. Trent Kelly won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Mississippi on Tuesday.
Kelly defeated a Democratic challenger, businesswoman Dianne Dodson Black, in a rematch of the 2022 election in northern Mississippi’s 1st District.
Kelly is a former district attorney and has been in the House since winning a 2015 special election. Kelly is a major general in the Mississippi Army National Guard and deployed twice to Iraq.
He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Agriculture Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.