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Michael Guest (politician) Michael Guest (politician) Michael Guest (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney and Republican politician from the state of Mississippi. Guest graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in accounting and the University of Mississippi School of Law with a Juris Doctor. He served as the Assistant District Attorney for Madison and Rankin counties from 1994 through 2008, and became District Attorney in 2008. In the 2018 elections, Guest ran for the United States House of Representatives in to succeed Gregg Harper, who chose not to seek reelection. In the six-way Republican primary election in June 2018,