{"id":80046,"date":"2018-05-08T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=80046"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:36:37","slug":"senator-hyde-smith-commends-stratton-congressional-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2018\/05\/senator-hyde-smith-commends-stratton-congressional-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Hyde-Smith commends Stratton on congressional internship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paxton Stratton (left), a Delta State University junior, served Senator Thad Cochran (right) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith during Cochran’s retirement transition.<\/h6>\n

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U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) commended Paxton Stratton, a Delta State junior,\u00a0for his service as an intern for both her and retired Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).<\/p>\n

Stratton, of Fort Worth, Texas, is a junior exercise science major and mathematics minor at Delta State.<\/p>\n

He was selected by Cochran as a spring semester intern in his Washington office. With Cochran\u2019s retirement, Stratton continued his internship with Hyde-Smith. He used the four-month internship to assist both Senators in several capacities, including administrative, scheduling and constituent services.<\/p>\n

He also aided the senators\u2019 legislative staff on agricultural and healthcare issues.<\/p>\n

Stratton is the son of Mike and Jennifer Stratton of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

Follow all Delta State news at www.deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paxton Stratton (left), a Delta State University junior, served Senator Thad Cochran (right) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith during Cochran’s retirement transition.   U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) commended Paxton Stratton,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":80048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,246],"tags":[996,627],"class_list":["post-80046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-students","tag-congressional-fellow","tag-washington-d-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80081,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80046\/revisions\/80081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}