Pikes in Politics

Thad Cochran (Mississippi, Gamma Iota 1956) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978 and represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 2018, serving as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2005 to 2007 and from 2015 to 2018.  He was recognized as the tenth-longest serving senator in the history of the United States.  He is the third Pike to have a Naval destroyer – the future USS Thad Cochran – named after him.