Citizenship Test Answers for Mississippi
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Mississippi.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Mississippi
Jackson
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Mississippi now
- Cindy Hyde-Smith
- Roger F. Wicker
You only need to give one of these names.
Mississippi has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Mississippi's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 4 of Mississippi's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Trent Kelly |
| 2 | Bennie G. Thompson |
| 3 | Michael Guest |
| 4 | Mike Ezell |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Mississippi now
Tate Reeves
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Mississippi
Jackson is Mississippi's capital and its largest city, named for Andrew Jackson and laid out in 1821 as a planned seat of government. Mississippi entered the Union in 1817 as the 20th state. It has 4 congressional districts and 6 electoral votes. Two answers on the test happened here. Vicksburg, on the river west of Jackson, fell to Union forces on July 4, 1863, giving the North control of the Mississippi and splitting the Confederacy in two, one of the accepted Civil War events. And the state was the center of the voter registration drives of 1964 that helped produce the Voting Rights Act, part of what the civil rights movement did.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.