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'Amy Tuck' (born July 8, 1963) is the outgoing lieutenant governor of Mississippi. A Republican, she is only the second woman elected to statewide office in Mississippi and the first to have been re-elected.
Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in public administration from Mississippi State University in Starkville and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.
In 1990, she defeated five others to be elected to the Mississippi Senate to represent Choctaw, Montgomery, Oktibbeha and Webster counties. In 1995, Tuck ran for Secretary of State to fill the post of Dick Molpus, who ran unsuccessfully for governor against Kirk Fordice. She was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary by Eric Clark, the eventual winner. Undeterred by the political setback, she ran for lieutenant governor in 1999 and defeated Bill Hawks.
In 2002, Tuck made national headlines when she switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party. She cited philosophical differences with her former party on issues such as abortion, civil justice reform, and congressional redistricting. In 2003, Tuck was re-elected with 61 percent of the vote. She defeated former Democratic state Senator Barbara Martin Blackmon.
There has been speculation that she may run for the United States Senate when U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, a fellow Republican, retires.^[1] She is also considered a potential candidate to succeed U.S. Representative Chip Pickering, who has announced his retirement, effective January 3, 2009.
She was ineligible to see a third term as lieutenant governor in the 2007 Republican primary. Phil Bryant, the outgoing state auditor, will be the GOP nominee for the second slot on the ticket headed by Governor Haley Barbour, who is seeking a second term in the upcoming November 6, general electon.
Tuck is single.

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