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3 unusual facts about State House


Castle Harbour, Bermuda

It is Bermuda's oldest standing stone building, predating the State House.

State House, Bermuda

The State House was one of the sites (the others mostly being military) illustrated on a map of Bermuda (shown at left) published in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith in 1624.

Since then, the State House has been leased to a Scottish Free Masonic Lodge.


Ambrosio José Gonzales

A memorial cenotaph for Narciso was later erected on Senate Street across from the State House in Columbia, purportedly on the route Tillman regularly walked home.

Demographics of Massachusetts

Most Bay Staters live within a 60 mile radius of the State House on Beacon Hill, often called Greater Boston: the City of Boston, neighboring cities and towns, the North Shore, South Shore, the northern, western, and southern suburbs, and most of southeastern and central Massachusetts.

Electoral history of Fred F. Steen, II

Electoral History of Fred F. Steen, II, former mayor of Landis, North Carolina, now North Carolina State House Representative for the 76th NC House District covering parts of Rowan County, North Carolina.

Electoral history of Lorene T. Coates

Electoral History of Lorene T. Coates, former North Carolina State House Representative for parts of Rowan County, North Carolina.

Hanscom Air Force Base

A non-flying base, Hanscom Air Force Base is named after Laurence G. Hanscom (1906–1941) in honor of the pilot, aviation enthusiast, and State House reporter who was killed in a plane crash at Saugus, Massachusetts when he had been lobbying for the establishment of an airfield in Bedford.

Russia–Seychelles relations

In February 2009, Alexander Vladimirov, Russia's Ambassador to Seychelles paid a final visit to President James Michel and Vice-President Joseph Belmont at the State House.

Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence and National Security

The Ministry of Defence and National Security building is located in State Avenue at Tower Hill in central Freetown, a few distance from the State House.

Whitney Anderson

Whitney Anderson's first stint in public office came in 1978, when he won a State House seat representing Kailua.


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Albert E. Mead

Mead served as Mayor of Blaine, Washington (1892), as a member of the Washington State House of Representatives (1892), and as prosecuting attorney for Whatcom County, Washington from 1898 to 1903.

Alma College

Dan Scripps, Representative to the MI State House of Representatives

Ambler, Pennsylvania

The borough is part of the Thirteenth Congressional District (represented by Rep. Allyson Schwartz), the 151st State House District (represented by Rep. Todd Stephens) and the 12th State Senate District (represented by Sen. Stewart Greenleaf).

Charles F. Howard

Prior experience included serving as Executive Vice President and Operating Officer of Sugarland Properties, which developed the First Colony master-planned community that now comprises most of the southern and southeastern areas of both Sugar Land and State House District 26.

Charles Roberts Ingersoll

Ingersoll was born in New Haven, Connecticut, son of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, a New Haven lawyer who also served in the state House of Representatives, the United States Congress, and as United States Minister to Russia and as the mayor of New Haven, and of his wife, Margaret, née Van den Heuvel.

Charles W. McClammy

He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1866, served in the State senate in 1871 and was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891).

Chris Roy, Jr.

Had he sought a second term in the state House, Roy would have faced two Republicans in the October 22 nonpartisan blanket primary, Lance Harris and Barett Byrd of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps.

Columbia County, Pennsylvania

For many years Columbia County was represented in the State House by a conservative Democrat in the 109th district until John Gordner changed parties to Republican in 2001.

Dan Douglas

In 2012, Douglas was elected without opposition to the state House when the incumbent District 91 Republican Bryan King was elected to the District 5 seat in the Arkansas State Senate.

David J. Doyle

In addition, he coordinated the successful campaigns of Michigan Governor John Engler, U.S. Senator of Michigan Spencer Abraham, Michigan Secretary of State Candice Miller, and numerous state House, state Senate, and congressional campaigns.

George E. Nowotny

In 1967, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock appointed Nowotny the first ever Minority Leader of the state House because Nowotny's name was the first alphabetically among the three Republican House members.

Goodluck

Goodluck Nanah Opiah, (born 1964), Nigerian, a politician and Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly

Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth

Government House is a residence for a governor; so now many Commonwealth nations without the British monarch as Head of State name their presidential palaces State House or President's House.

Hoquiam, Washington

Lynn Kessler - eight-term member of Washington State House of Representatives; lives in Hoquiam.

Jacob D. Leighty

He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1886 to 1888, and later was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897).

Jefferson Holt

His mother was Bertha "B" Holt, member of the North Carolina State House of Representatives.

John A. Kay

He became involved with the construction of the South Carolina State House in 1854, first as Peter H. Hammarskold's project superintendent, and later as assistant architect under George E. Walker.

Joseph McMinn

In 1815, McMinn ran for governor against four other prominent state politicians: Senator Jesse Wharton, Congressman Robert Weakley, former speaker of the state house Robert Foster, and fellow state constitutional convention delegate Thomas Henderson.

Keith P. Williams

A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his first term in the state House.

Lyle Larson

He was first elected to the state House in 2010 to succeed fellow Republican Frank Corte, Jr.

Max T. Malone

Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member.

Michael J. Michot

(2) Michot worked in 2007 for the election of his former fraternity brother, Page Cortez, to the same District 43 state House seat that Michot himself held from 1996 to 2000.

Minnesota Forward

As of late summer 2010, MN Forward was supporting a ticket consisting of Tom Emmer for governor, Terri Bonoff, Doug Magnus, and Jim Metzen for State Senate, and Gene Pelowski, Doug Wardlow, and Kurt Zellers for the State House.

Natalie Tennant

She lost the primary election to acting governor Earl Ray Tomblin, coming in third place behind state house speaker Rick Thompson.

New Hampshire General Court

Reporters Tom Fahey of the Union Leader and Kevin Landrigan of the Nashua Telegraph each run their paper's respective State House bureaus.

Colin Manning resigned from his work as a State House syndicated columnist for Foster's Daily Democrat to become Governor John Lynch's press secretary.

Politics of Colorado

Mark Udall has been challenged for his seat by a wide array of Republicans in 2014, including 2010 Senatorial candidate Ken Buck, former State-House leader Amy Stephens, and Colorado Springs legislator Owen Hill.

Richard LeBlanc

In 2006 he was elected to represent Michigan's 18th State House District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the entire city of Westland.

Richard Stevenson

Dick Stevenson, member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives

Rockledge, Pennsylvania

The borough is part of the Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district (represented by Rep. Allyson Schwartz), the 170th State House District (represented by Rep. Brendan F. Boyle) and the 4th State Senate District (represented by Sen. LeAnna Washington).

Steve Stadelman

In the Illinois General Assembly Stadelman's associated representatives will be Democrat Charles Jefferson in State House District 67 and Republican John Cabello (R-Rockford) in State House District 68.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

The band played on the steps of the Maryland State House while the legislature was in session one evening, causing a crowd to gather, including then-Governor William Donald Schaefer, who had been pushing hard for a team and a football stadium.

The Crests

On November 12, 2013, JT Carter was honored by the Pennsylvania State House, Speaker of the House Sam Smith, and PA State Representative Rosemary M Brown, for his lifetime in the music industry and for being the first African American to form an interracial vocal group in America.

Tim Bledsoe

In 2006, he unsuccessfully challenged sitting State Representative Edward Gaffney for his seat in the State House.

Tory Rocca

He is the son of Sal Rocca and Sue Rocca, both of whom served in the State House of Representatives.

Tourism in Mexico

The Museo de Historia Mexicana (Museum of Mexican History), MARCO (Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art), Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey and the Museum of the Palacio de Gobierno, or State House, are some of the better known museums in the city, as well as nationally.

Umatilla County, Oregon

Umatilla County contains two Oregon State House Districts: State House District 57, which is currently represented by Greg Smith, and State House District 58, which is currently represented by Bob Jenson.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2006

In a surprise upset victory in the Democratic primaries, Rochester Democratic chair Carol Shea-Porter defeated the better funded and party-favored state House Democratic Leader Jim Craig, getting 54% of the vote to Craig's 34%.

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1960

To win the Democratic nomination for a full term, Jordan had to turn back a strong challenge from Addison Hewlett, the speaker of the state House of Representatives.

United States Senate elections in Pennsylvania, 1788

Upon the expiration of Sen. Maclay's term in 1791, the State House of Representatives would not be able to elect a new United States Senator due to a dispute regarding the rules and procedures of the election.

United States Senate special election in Wyoming, 2008

Speculation about potential Republican challengers had included the other finalists to succeed Thomas, Cynthia Lummis and Tom Sansonetti; as well as former state House Speaker Randall Luthi, and former U.S. Attorney Matt Mead.

Utah State House of Representatives District 53 election 2014

Melvin Brown, Member of the Utah State House of Representatives since 2006.

Vicki Barnett

In 2008, she announced her intention to run for the 37th State House seat, which was left open by the retirement of longtime Democratic legislator Aldo Vagnozzi, who could not run for re-election due to term limits.

Vincent Gregory

After one term in the state house, Gregory was elected to the State Senate, succeeding term-limited Democrat Gilda Jacobs.

William Blackledge

He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1808, but served briefly in the state house in 1809 and returned to serve one more term in the 12th United States Congress from 1811 to 1813.

William Johnston Dawson

Dawson was elected to the 3rd United States Congress in the election of Feb. 15, 1793, a three-way race in which he, as the Anti-Federalist candidate, defeated two Federalists: Stephen Cabarrus (Speaker of the State House) and William Cumming.

William Lenoir

William Ballard Lenoir (1775–1852), his son, member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1815–1817