Angela Cockerham is an American politician currently serving as an Independent member of the

Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...

, representing the 96th district. Cockerham joined the Mississippi House appropriations committee in 2013. According to Cockerham, she doesn't cast votes based on her party affiliation but based upon her beliefs: In its 2017 rankings of the members of the Mississippi legislature, the American Conservative Union (ACU) found Cockerham to be the most conservative Democrat in the House, with an overall rating of 56 percent (the average for Democratic representatives that year was 28 percent).

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