Delbert Hosemann is the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi. He assumed office on January 9, 2020. His current term ends on January 11, 2028. The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi is an elected constitutional officer, the second-ranking executive branch officer, and the first officer in line to succeed the Governor of Mississippi. The lieutenant governor also serves as the Senate president for the Mississippi Senate. Hosemann was born in Warren County, Mississippi in 1947. He earned his undergraduate degree in business from the University of Notre Dame, a law degree from the University of Mississippi, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University. Hosemann served in the United States Army Reserve and worked as a lawyer for Phelps Dunbar, LLP. Hosemann was elected Mississippi secretary of state in 2007. He was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. According to his official biography, during his time as secretary of state, Hosemann "revised Mississippi's business laws, automated legal filings, and fought to enact a constitutional Voter ID law." In 2011, Hosemann sponsored Initiative 27, an indirect initiated constitutional amendment requiring voter ID in Mississippi, and voters approved the initiative in November 2011. In 2012, the state legislature passed a bill codifying the voter ID requirements of the initiative into state law.
