district website predecessor successor children birth_place religion party term_end birth_date term_start spouse birthname image article_title state name alma_mater
mississippi 1 1st -lsb- http://childers.house.gov/ government website -rsb- roger wicker alan nunnelee dustin lauren booneville , mississippi , u.s. southern baptist democratic january 3 , 2011 29 march 1958 may 13 , 2008 tami childers travis wayne childers travischilders.jpg travis childers
 mississippi travis childers northeast mississippi community college university of mississippi , oxford
travis childers

travis wayne childers -lrb- born march 29 , 1958 -rrb- is an american politician who served as the u.s. representative for from 2008 to 2011 .
the district included much of the northern portion of the state including new albany , columbus , oxford , southaven , and tupelo .
a member of the democratic party , childers previously served as chancery clerk of prentiss county from 1992 until his election to congress .
on march 1 , 2014 , childers announced that he was running for the united states senate .
he won his party 's nomination for the senate seat in the democratic primary on june 3 .
he lost the general election to incumbent thad cochran .
