Holmes was a senator from Mississippi and was a Republican. He served from 1820 to 1825.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1807 to 1809; the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1805 to 1807; the representative for Virginia’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1803 to 1805; the representative for Virginia’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Virginia’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Virginia’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1797 to 1799.
![Photo of Sen. David Holmes [R-MS, 1820-1825]](/static/legislator-photos/405586-200px.jpeg)
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
