question: Thad Cochran defeated a man in 2014 who represents what district in Mississippi?
answer: 42nd District
context: Title: List of United States Senators from Mississippi
  Passage: Mississippi was admitted to the Union on December 10, 1817, and elects senators to Class 1 and Class 2.  Its current senators are Republicans Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker.  As of January 1, 2015, 50 people (all of them men) have served as U.S. Senators from Mississippi.
  Title: 2012–13 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team
  Passage: The 2012–13 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents The Ohio State University in the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  Their head coach is Thad Matta, in his ninth season with the Buckeyes.  The team plays its home games at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.  They finished with a record of with a record of 29–8 overall, 13–5 in Big Ten play for a second place tie with Michigan State.  They won the 2013 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament and receive an automatic bid in the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament which they were defeated by Wichita State in the Elite Eight.
  Title: Chris McDaniel
  Passage: Christopher Brian "Chris" McDaniel (born June 28, 1972) is an American attorney, conservative commentator, and is a Republican politician in the Mississippi Senate representing the 42nd District, which encompasses part of South Mississippi.
  Title: Erik R. Fleming
  Passage: Erik Robert Fleming (born February 2, 1965) was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives representing the 72nd District (which includes parts of Hinds and Madison counties) from 1999 to 2008.  He was the Democratic nominee for one of the state's two U.S. Senate seats.  He faced incumbent Republican Thad Cochran in the November 4, 2008 general election, and was defeated.  Erik is now Director of Policy with the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and continues to advocate for the citizens of Mississippi.
  Title: Steven Palazzo
  Passage: Steven McCarty Palazzo (born February 21, 1970) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Mississippi 's 4 congressional district since 2011.  The district takes in most of Mississippi's share of the Gulf Coast and includes Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Laurel and Hattiesburg.  He is a member of the Republican Party.  Palazzo defeated 10-term Democratic incumbent Gene Taylor with 52% to 47% of the vote in the 2010 mid-term election.  Previously, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, having represented District 116 from 2006 to 2011.  Palazzo again defeated Taylor in the June 2014 Republican primary election.  Taylor switched parties in a bid to return to his former House seat.
  Title: 2014–15 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team
  Passage: The 2014–15 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented The Ohio State University in the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  Their head coach was Thad Matta, in his 11th season with the Buckeyes.  The team played its home games at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio and were members of the Big Ten Conference.  They finished the season 24–11, 11–7 in Big Ten play to finish in sixth place.  They advanced to the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament where they lost to Michigan State.  They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated VCU in the second round before losing in the third round to Arizona.
  Title: Don Rone Jr.
  Passage: Donald Rone Jr. (born December 21, 1944) is an American politician from the state of Missouri.  A lifelong resident of Portageville, Missouri, he served as mayor of Portageville, Missouri, for 10 years.  In 2014, he was elected as a Republican to serve as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing the represents the 149th District, which includes all of New Madrid County as well as portions of Mississippi County and Pemiscot County.  In 2014, he defeated local opera singer and "America's Got Talent" winner Neal E. Boyd in the Republican primary and former U.S. Congressman Bill Burlison in the general election.
  Title: Thad Cochran
  Passage: William Thad Cochran (born December 7, 1937) is an American Republican politician.  He is the current senior United States Senator from Mississippi (the third most-senior Senator and the second most-senior Republican member), first elected to the Senate in 1978, and the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which he had also chaired from 2005 to 2007.  He also chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005.  Cochran won reelection to a seventh term in 2014, after defeating Chris McDaniel in an intense primary run-off election.  He is currently the dean of the Mississippi congressional delegation.  He is also on track to become the longest serving Republican Member of Congress if he serves until 2019, surpassing Joseph Gurney Cannon, former Speaker of the House, who served for 46 years.
  Title: Irwin County School District
  Passage: The Irwin County School District is a public school district in Irwin County, Georgia, United States, based in Ocilla.  It serves the entire population of Irwin County, including the communities of Irwinville and Ocilla.  As of the 2014-2015 school year, Dr. Thad Clayton is superintendent and Dr. Emethel Mizell is assistant superintendent.
  Title: Charlie Ross (state senator)
  Passage: Charlie Ross is an American politician and attorney who lives in Brandon, Mississippi.  He served as Senator from District 20 in the Mississippi Senate until 2007.  District 20 comprises parts of Madison and Rankin Counties.  Ross was first elected to the Senate in 1997 after serving as the representative from District 59 in the Mississippi House of Representatives.  Prior to his legislative service, he served as the Chairman of the Rankin County Republican Executive Committee.  In 2008, Ross ran for Congress in Mississippi's 3rd congressional district, but was defeated in the primary by Rankin County Republican Chairman Gregg Harper.
citations: Chris McDaniel Thad Cochran