| Tommy Gollott | |
| State Senate1: | Mississippi State |
| District1: | 50th |
| Term Start1: | January 1980 |
| Term End1: | January 2020 |
| Succeeded: | Incumbent |
| Office2: | Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives |
| Term Start2: | January 1968 |
| Term End2: | January 1980 |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Arlin Gollott |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Spouse: | Zelma Jackson |
| Residence: | Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Businessman, transfer & storage company |
| Successor1: | Scott DeLano |
| Office: | President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate |
| Predecessor: | Pud Graham |
| Successor: | Travis Little |
| Term Start: | January 2, 1996 |
| Term End: | January 2000 |
Thomas Arlin Gollott (born September 29, 1935) is a businessman and former state legislator in Mississippi. A Democrat, he served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate before becoming a Republican in 2007. He represented the 50th District from 1980 to 2020.[1] He had served continuously in the Mississippi Legislature from 1968, when he sat as a state representative, which he served until his election as state senator in 1979. He had been a Democrat until 2007, when he switched his affiliation to Republican.[2] [3] In September 2017, he became the longest-serving member of the Mississippi Legislature in history.[4] He retired from the Senate in 2020, after deciding not to run for another term.[5]
In 1996, Gollott was elected the president pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate for the 1996-2000 term.[6] He was the first president pro tempore from the Gulf Coast region since Merle F. Palmer in 1968.