Johnathan Ray Lancaster is an American politician currently serving in 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 for ...

, having first been elected in 2019. He is a Republican.

Biography

Jonathan Ray Lancaster was born in

Amory, Mississippi Amory is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2020 census, down from 7,316 in 2010. Located in the northeastern part of the state near the Alabama border, it was founded in 1887 as a railroad tow ...

. He has graduated from Houston High School. In 2019, he was elected to represent

Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

's 22nd House district as a Democrat in the

for the 2020–2024 term. He was inaugurated on January 7, 2020. Jon Lancaster switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party in November 2021.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives Mississippi Democrats Mississippi Republicans People from Amory, Mississippi 21st-century members of the Mississippi Legislature {{Mississippi-politician-stub