---
type: Person
title: "Joel Carter"
description: "MS Senate District 49 — MS State Senate District 49"
role: "MS Senate District 49"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "MS"
district: "MS State Senate District 49"
represents: "us/states/ms/districts/senate/49"
tenure:
  start: "2018-01-10"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "33c8556a-0c0d-438b-bfda-0aa3809c515c"
  office: "7528c23b-9449-44ca-800c-8356a1d6211f"
  tenure: "82fc7c2c-7b7a-4ab1-ab1c-ff3c06fa70b0"
  jurisdiction: "3a91f26c-98ac-44cd-84f1-91a4a4771684"
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"
---

# Joel Carter

Current MS Senate District 49 (MS State Senate District 49).

Represents [MS State Senate District 49](/us/states/ms/districts/senate/49.md).

## Sources

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

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