Bennie G. Thompson

Democrat · MS-2 · U.S. House

Bio

Bennie Gordon Thompson is an American politician and educator serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson served as the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023. He was both the first Democrat and the first African American to chair the committee. Since 2011, he has been the only Democrat in Mississippi's congressional delegation, and since 2018 he has been the dean of the delegation after Thad Cochran left Congress.

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Record of service

In office: 33.3 years
First took office: 1993 (17 terms)
Seniority: 17 of 437 by time served
Age: 78

District offices

Bolton, MS · 601-866-9003
Greenville, MS · 662-335-9003
Jackson, MS · 601-946-9003
Marks, MS · 662-326-9003
Mound Bayou, MS · 662-741-9003
Natchez, MS · 601-492-9003

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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

2019

$865k

2020

$861k

2021

$683k

2022

$1.4M

2023

$2.5M

2024

$3.3M

2025

$3.3M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.1M – $4.5M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $2.1M – $4.5M
Since 2019: +$2.4M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 37 assets reported

Midland National Fixed Annuity$500k – $1.0M

Nationwide Peak Fixed Indexed Annuity$500k – $1.0M

Prudential ⇒ FlexGuard Linked Annuity$500k – $1.0M

Congressional Federal Credit Union$250k – $500k

Cadence Bank FKA BancorpSouth Bank$100k – $250k

American General Life Insurance Company$50k – $100k

Jackson-Area Federal Credit Union$50k – $100k

Trustmark Bank$50k – $100k

Equi-vest$15k – $50k

Liberty Bank$15k – $50k

Lots, 44 and 45, West Capitol Street$15k – $50k

0 Sharon Street$1k – $15k

0.5 acre unimproved property$1k – $15k

1 acre unimproved property$1k – $15k

2 acres unimproved property$1k – $15k

2 acres, unimproved land$1k – $15k

5 acres unimproved property$1k – $15k

Lot 1, L C Turner Circle$1k – $15k

Lot 3, L C Turner Circle$1k – $15k

Lot 8, Southeast Annex$1k – $15k

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)$1k – $15k

Regions Financial Corporation (RF)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF (AVUV)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ JPMorgan Hedged Equity Laddered Overlay ETF (HELO)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF (SCHV)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund (WTV)$1k – $15k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Enhanced International ETF (FENI)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ Invesco Total Return Bond ETF (GTO)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ iShares Russell Midcap Growth ETF (IWP)$1 – $1k

Schwab Brokerage ⇒ PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund Exchange- Traded Fund (BOND)$1 – $1k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.57

Healthcare

D+0.73

Immigration & Border

D+0.87

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.97

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.58

Defense & Veterans

D+0.15

Economy & Labor

D+0.57

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.29

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.61

Government & Democracy

D+0.76

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

Bennie G. Thompson's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Bennie G. Thompson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Thompsonsits 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

Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Homeland SecurityRanking Membercenter · 31 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Thompson'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.