 One of the state's major universities, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), is located within the district at Oxford.The district includes Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, and Winston counties and a portion of Oktibbeha County.From statehood to the election of 1846, Mississippi elected representatives at-large statewide on a general ticket.