---
type: Person
title: "Don Hartness"
description: "MS Senate District 42 — MS State Senate District 42"
role: "MS Senate District 42"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MS"
district: "MS State Senate District 42"
represents: "us/states/ms/districts/senate/42"
tenure:
  start: "2026-01-06"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "d33b637e-0d26-48ad-a68d-b8e3fed779ad"
  office: "75c34084-27b4-40f1-8685-43ba1e4f3861"
  tenure: "e5894066-7449-406b-a04f-56688ac6704d"
  jurisdiction: "2bcccfa3-b167-404e-8dcb-4f25dff162f3"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, ms]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Don Hartness

Current MS Senate District 42 (MS State Senate District 42).

Represents [MS State Senate District 42](/us/states/ms/districts/senate/42.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).