Ronnie Shows (born January 26, 1947) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi. Shows was born in Moselle in Jones County, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1971. From 1980 until 1988 he was in the Mississippi State Senate. He was elected to Congress in 1998 and represented Mississippi's 4th district from January 3, 1999 until January 3, 2003. In 2002, Shows was pitted against fellow Congressman Charles Pickering, Jr., a Republican from the neighboring 3rd District, after Mississippi lost a seat in the 2000 Congressional redestricting. Shows' Jackson-based district was merged with Pickering's district in a way that strongly favored Pickering. Pickering soundly defeated Shows with over 60f the vote in the new 3rd District. Shows is a resident of Bassfield, Mississippi.
