Trent Kelly
Republican · MS-1 · U.S. House
Bio
John Trent Kelly is an American lawyer, politician, and retired major general from the Mississippi National Guard serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 1st congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the district attorney of Mississippi's 1st Judicial District from 2012 to 2015.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.2 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 153 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Columbus, MS · 662-327-0748
- Eupora, MS · 662-687-1545
- Hernando, MS · 662-687-0576
- Oxford, MS · 662-687-1540
- Tupelo, MS · 662-841-8808
- Corinth, MS · 662-687-1525
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $266k – $665k
- Liabilities
- $30k – $100k
- Net worth
- $166k – $635k
- Since 2019
- +$116k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Trent Kelly's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Trent Kelly (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Kellysits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Kelly's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Mississippi civil rights attorney seeks congressional seat held by GOP's Trent KellyA Democratic civil rights attorney who has advocated for better treatment of prisoners and testified against Mississippi’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban says he is running for Congress
ABC News · October 2, 2025
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The National Interest · January 20, 2025
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