Michael Phelps

In April 11, 2005 Phelps was a guest judge in the Miss USA beauty pageant.
. Phelps cannot swim for the team, however, because his endorsement deal with Speedo has caused him to forfeit his amateur status. Pledge to the Flag: "I salute the flag of Mississippi and the sovereign state for which it stands with pride in her history and achievements and with confidence in her future under the guidance of Almighty God.". Phelps is also serving as a volunteer assistant coach and is taking classes, intending to major in sports marketing or sports management. State motto: "Virtute et Armis" (By Valor and Arms)
State song: "Go, Mississippi", adopted 1962
Patron saint: Our Lady of Sorrows
State flower and state tree: Magnolia
State bird: Mockingbird
State beverage: Milk
State fish: Largemouth Bass
State insect: Honeybee
State water mammal: Bottlenose Dolphin
State shell: Oyster
State fossil: A whale fossil nicknamed "ziggy"
State land mammal: White-tailed Deer
State waterfowl: Wood duck
State stone: Petrified wood
State wildflower: Coreopsis
State butterfly: Spicebush Swallowtail
State dance: Square Dance
Statehood Quarter was minted in 2002.
. Phelps is following his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who left Phelps' previous swim team to become the head swimming coach of the University of Michigan varsity swim team. The Jewish population is also mainly concentrated in urban areas.

As of 2005, Phelps is attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Roman Catholic population is found primarily in urban areas and on the Gulf Coast. He was also fined $250, required to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting, and to give speeches to students at three high schools by June 1, 2005. Mississippi's religious affiliations largely consist of evangelical Christian denominations, particularly Baptists (Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, etc.); along with Methodist and Presbyterian. On December 29, 2004, Phelps was sentenced to 18 months of probation. The black, Choctaw Indian, and Chinese segments of the population are also almost entirely native-born. Phelps pled guilty to driving while impaired, avoiding charges of driving under the influence, underage drinking and failure to stop at a stop sign. There are also significant French and Italian populations.

His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. More than 98 percent native-born, predominantly of Northern European descent, especially British (namely English and Scottish), Irish (including Scotch-Irish), and German. Phelps, who was 19 at the time (21 is the legal drinking age in the U.S.), was arrested and cited for driving under the influence of alcohol. The white population of Mississippi is remarkably homogeneous. On November 4, 2004, Phelps was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland for driving under the influence after being pulled over for running a stop sign in his 2005 Land Rover with two friends. The coastal fishing industry has attracted Southeast Asian refugees. Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004. The Chinese did not adjust well to the Mississippi plantation system, however, and most of them became small merchants.

See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The small Chinese population found in the Delta is descended from farm laborers brought there from California in the 1870s. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. A few thousand Native Americans (mostly Choctaw) live in the east central section of the state. This gave Phelps an automatic entry into the medley relay, but as he was exhausted from the many races he had competed in over the preceding week, he gave up the butterfly leg to Crocker. The American medley team went on to win the event in world record time, and since he had raced in a preliminary heat of the medley relay, Phelps was also awarded a gold medal along with the team members that competed in the final. However, this has changed, as Mississippi is now 36.3% black. Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay. Until about 1940 African Americans made up a majority of Mississippians.

On August 20, in the 100m butterfly final, Phelps defeated American teammate Ian Crocker (who holds the world record in the event) by just 0.04 seconds. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $23,466, 51^st in the nation (ranking includes the District of Columbia). On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Mississippi's total state product in 2003 was $72 billion. The episode only made it yet more clear that Phelps's participation in at least some of the relay events would depend solely on his performance in the individual events. (See: List of Mississippi counties). They claimed that Phelps is not a top swimmer in the event and his presence could compromise the US team's performance in the name of what was called a "media circus" for Phelps to win eight gold medals. Citizens of Mississippi counties elect the five members of their county Board of Supervisors from single-member districts, as well as other county officials.

4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. Mississippi has 82 counties. and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. (See: List of United States Representatives from Mississippi). Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. House of Representatives. Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo. As of the 2001 reapportionment, the state has 4 congressmen in the U.S.

However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Aleksandr Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. senators are Trent Lott (Republican) and Thad Cochran (Republican). As his 4x100m freestyle relay team only won a bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200m freestyle, he fell just short of that record. At the federal level, Mississippi's two U.S. Phelps had the chance to break that record in 2004 by competing in eight swimming events: the 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, the 200m individual medley, the 400m individual medley, the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. Judges for the smaller courts are elected to four-year terms by the state's citizens who live within that court's jurisdiction. Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record. The ten Judges of the Court of Appeals are elected from five districts (two Judges per district) for eight-year staggered terms.

He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. The nine Judges of the Supreme Court are elected from three districts (three Judges per district) by the state's citizens in non-partisan elections to eight-year staggered terms. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. In addition, there is a statewide Court of Appeals, as well as Circuit Courts, Chancery Courts and Justice Courts, which have more limited geographical jurisdiction. Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. Supreme Judicial authority rests with the state Supreme Court, which has statewide authority. In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200m individual medley (1:56.04). (See: List of state legislatures of the United States.).

At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400m individual medley and set American marks in the 100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. Current state law sets the number of Senators at 52 and Representatives at 122. The term of office for Senators and Representatives is four years. Five months after Sydney, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly and then broke his own record again at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54.58). The state Constitution permits the legislature to establish by law the number of Senators and Representatives, up to a maximum of 52 Senators and 122 Representatives. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. The Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate, while the House of Representatives selects their own Speaker. Michael Phelps appeared at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15. Legislative authority resides in the state legislature, composed of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). (See: List of Governors of Mississippi)
(See: Mississippi general election results, 2003). States, most of the heads of major executive departments are elected by the citizens of Mississippi, rather than appointed by the governor. Unlike the federal government, but like many other U.S. Both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected to four-year terms of office.

The Lieutenant Governor, currently Amy Tuck (originally elected as a Democrat, she switched to the Republican party in 2002), is elected on a separate ballot. Executive authority in the state rests with the Governor, currently Haley Barbour (Republican). States and the federal government, Mississippi's government is based on the separation of legislative, executive and judicial power. As with all other U.S.

For most of that time period, Democrats also held the majority of seats in the state legislature (which they still do) not to mention most other elected offices, including the state's federal representation (although some Republicans began to win Congressional elections in the 1970s). For 116 years, from 1876 to 1992 Mississippians only elected Democrat governors. As a result, Mississippi's state government had a very long unbroken record of single-party dominance. After the Civil War, perceived mistreatment of Southerners during Reconstruction by the federally-appointed Republican governors led to considerable resentment toward the Republican party.

On August 17, 1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). The state was the last to repeal prohibition and to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, in 1966 and 1995 respectively. During the Civil War the Confederate States were defeated and subsequently Mississippi was readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870. It was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the Confederate States of America on January 9, 1861.

Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union, on December 10, 1817. and Spain. The Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. USS Mississippi was named in honor of this state.

The name itself probably comes from Native American words with various spellings that mean "large waters" or "father of the waters." Other nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Magnolia State and the Hospitality State. The state takes its name from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary. Official (long) name: State of Mississippi. Postal abbreviation: MS.

Mississippi is a southern state of the United States. The 2000 Census data on the racial/ethnic makeup of Mississippi is as follows:. 2000 Census rankings: 1st among the 50 states in its percentage of blacks; 45th in its percentage of Hispanics/Latinos. Mississippi's population in 2003 was estimated at 2,881,281.

In 2000, Mississippi's population was 2,844,658.