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Anti-pharming

In March 2005, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, a bill that proposes a five-year prison sentence and/or fine for individuals who execute phishing attacks and use information garnered through online fraud such as phishing and pharming to commit crimes such as identity theft.

Asheville Tourists

On January 5, 2010 it was reported by the Asheville Citizen-Times that Palace Sports and Entertainment have sold the team to former U.S. senator Mike DeWine and his family.

Bruce Kupper

Bruce served Senator William Cohen, then U.S. Senator from Maine and later United States Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, as central district staff member and office manager from 1973 to 1975.

Bruce M. Bolin

In the 1983 campaign, U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., U.S. Representatives Jerry Huckaby and Buddy Roemer, then Louisiana House Speaker John Hainkel, and then state Representative Robert Adley headlined a testimonial dinner and fundraiser for Bolin held at the Minden Civic Center and attended by some one thousand supporters.

Chappaquiddick Island

The island became internationally recognized following the July 18, 1969 incident, where the car of U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy was accidentally driven off the island's Dike Bridge, which fatally trapped his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, inside.

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Earlier positions include Staff Assistant to the President of the United States; Special Assistant to the Governor of Massachusetts (1972–1973); Counsel to the United States Ambassador to India (1973–1974); Research Associate at the Brookings Institution (1974–1977); and Legislative Director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1977–1981).

Crawford County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

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.

Day of Affirmation speech

Kennedy, who was then a U.S. Senator from New York, gave the speech two years before his 1968 presidential campaign, which came to an end when Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles.

Deep Creek Railroad

Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.

Detroit Historical Museum

In attendance were such dignitaries as Governor G. Mennen Williams, Mayor Albert E. Cobo, U.S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson, the French and British ambassadors and Detroit native and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche of the United Nations.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

In 2007, Holtz-Eakin was hired as chief economic policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Franklin County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.

G. Barry Anderson

Dean Barkley, who briefly served as U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 2002 after the death of Paul Wellstone, ran against Anderson for Supreme Court Justice in the 2012 election.

Hayneville, Alabama

In 1831, after being chosen as the county seat of Lowndes County, the town was officially named Hayneville in honor of Robert Y. Hayne, governor of South Carolina and a U.S. senator.

John Bessler

John Bessler is a visiting professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the spouse of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Joseph Crespino

Crespino is the author of Strom Thurmond’s America (Hill and Wang, 2012), a political biography of the longtime U.S. Senator from South Carolina.

Joseph Zaretzki

In 1965, the Democratic Party achieved for the only time since 1938 a majority in the State Senate, but the Democratic senators were divided in two factions, 15 senators allied with Mayor of New York City Robert F. Wagner, Jr., and 18 senators allied with U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Karan English

Despite being heavily outspent during her campaign, English won her 1992 General Election race against Republican Doug Wead after being endorsed by former U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.

Little Bay de Noc

A bit further north, Gladstone was founded in 1887 by U.S. Senator from Minnesota, William D. Washburn, to serve as a rail-lake terminal for lumber products.

Lorena, Texas

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as "forgotten" by the national leadership.

Maryland Democratic primary, 2008

Although Clinton received two big endorsements from Governor Martin O’Malley and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, it was not enough to help her much in the state, as many of the demographics were largely in Barack Obama’s favor.

Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall

For instance, the user could bring up the total delegate counts for Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) during the 2008 US Democratic primary race.

Ralna English

Now living in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ralna still maintains a busy concert schedule, either performing as a solo act, or with her ex-husband, Guy Hovis, who was an aide, based in Jackson, Mississippi, to his longtime friend, former Republican U.S. Senator Trent Lott.

Ralph T. Troy

Troy was listed in 1980 as a donor to U.S. Senator Russell B. Long, who won his last term that year by defeating then Democrat, later Republican, Woody Jenkins.

Randolph County, Missouri

The county was organized January 22, 1829 and named for U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator John Randolph of Roanoke of Virginia.

Ray Hunkins

Bebout secured the backing of former U.S. Senator Alan Kooi Simpson of Cody, who issued strong attacks on Hunkins during the primary campaign.

Reunion Society of Vermont Officers

Almost all prominent Vermonters who had served in the Civil War were members of the Society, including U.S. Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J. Bell.

Richard Carlson

On July 14, 1951, Carlson and then U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey were the guests on the CBS live variety show, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, in which hostess Faye Emerson visited Minneapolis to accent the kinds of music popular in the city.

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

Ruby Kless Sondock

Former speakers at the Sondock Lecture on Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center include U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch and Helen Thomas.

Sally Clausen

In 2000, she received the "Thinking Outside the Box" Award from U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.

Timothy J. Sullivan

Sullivan became closely associated with the Dean of the Law School, William Spong, a highly–respected former U.S. Senator from Virginia.

Tom Turnipseed

However, the Republican governor, David Beasley, was unseated that year, and the GOP failed in its last attempt to unseat U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings.

United States elections, 1968

Republican former U.S. Senator and Vice-President Richard Nixon was elected to serve as the 37th President of the United States, defeating the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey.

United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, 1994

This election was for an open seat because incumbent Craig L. Thomas retired to run for U.S. Senator for Wyoming.

University of Maryland School of Public Policy

With the support of the Sloan foundation and key individuals such as U.S. Senator Joseph Tydings and publisher Philip Merrill, the Maryland School of Public Affairs was established on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981.

Wade Watts

Upon returning to America, he contacted U.S. Senator David Boren and U.S. Senator Don Nickles in an attempt to gain their assistance in contacting President Ronald Reagan for his aid in sending helicopters to Africa to deliver food.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

William S. Tribell

In 2008, he participated in the presidential election as Louisiana State Director for U.S. Senator Mike Gravel.

Winning New Hampshire

Other appearances include Bill Gardner (the New Hampshire Secretary of State, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, Congressman Ed Markey, Vanessa Kerry and Martin Sheen.


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28th New York State Legislature

U.S. Senator John Armstrong resigned on June 30, 1804, after his appointment as U.S. Minister to France.

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie

He was the brother of U.S. Senator John Slidell of Louisiana, who was later involved in the American Civil War's "Trent Affair."

Betsy Markey

After completing a degree in Political Science, Markey worked for a short period of time on the staff of U.S. Senator John A. Durkin (D-NH).

Bill Baroni

He was a driver for Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian in his campaign for U.S. Senator against Frank Lautenberg in 1994 and worked on the advance staff for the 1996 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes.

Brian Lees

Early in his career, he served as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke.

Brooklyn, Connecticut

Elijah Paine (1757–1842), a Federalist U.S. senator from Vermont (1795–1801) was born in town.

Charles Dietrich

Charles Henry Dietrich (1853–1924), governor of, and a U.S. Senator from, Nebraska

Charles Henry Gilbert

However, in 1890, U.S. Senator Leland Stanford (1824‒1893) and his wife Jane Eliza Lathrop Stanford (1828‒1905) chose Jordan to be the founding president of a new university to be established in Palo Alto, California, in memory of their deceased son, Leland Stanford, Jr. (1868‒1884).

Clint Tracy

These included Jeff Glenn, an executive with Delta Companies and former aide to former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.); and Wayne Wallingford, a retired Air Force officer and head of human resources for McDonald's of Southeast Missouri.

Cokesbury College

Among the professors at the college was Charles Tait, who later was a U.S. senator from Georgia and a federal judge.

Columbia River Treaty

BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett was a major player in negotiating the treaty and, according to U.S. Senator Clarence Dill, was a tough bargainer.

Dooly County, Georgia

Notable Dooly County residents include former governor George Busbee; former U.S. senator Walter F. George; the late Jody Powell, press secretary and aide to Jimmy Carter during his governorship and U.S. presidency; and Roger Kingdom, an Olympic gold medalist in track and field.

Fort Macon State Park

Named after U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina, Nathaniel Macon, who procured the funds to build the facility, Fort Macon was designed by Brig. Gen. Simon Bernard and built by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

George Badger

George Edmund Badger (1795 – 1866), U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina

Gorgi Popstefanov

He interned in U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg’s office in 2008, was the first Policy and Diplomacy Fellow at United Macedonian Diaspora from 2008 to 2009, and served as a Foreign Affairs intern within the Cabinet of the President of Macedonia in 2010.

Helen Smith Shoemaker

She was born in New York City on March 16, 1903 to Howard Alexander Smith, a U.S. senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1958, and Helen Babcock Dominick.

Henry Ashurst

Henry F. Ashurst (1874–1962), U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1912–1941

Howard Opinsky

Opinsky has also served as a media strategist and campaign operative for a variety of candidates and political leaders including U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX).

International Typographical Union

Newspaper publishers called for aid from the authors of the law, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R - Ohio) and Congressman Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R - New Jersey) The ITU and Woodruff Randolph won in Chicago.

James Berry

James Henderson Berry (1841–1913), Governor and U.S. Senator of Arkansas

James Fulbright

J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), U.S. Senator from Arkansas, promoter of the Fulbright Program of educational grants

James Hirni

A former aide to U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), he joined the lobbying firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, and then became a member of "Team Abramoff" at Greenberg Traurig.

James Phelan

James D. Phelan (1861–1930), American politician; Mayor of San Francisco and U.S. Senator from California

Jan Backus

A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT).

John Weeks

John W. Weeks (1860–1926), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and Secretary of War

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

A few weeks later, Huntsman went on a 10 day business trip to Asia with his friend U.S. Senator Jake Garn, who was chairman of Governor Bangerter's campaign.

Joseph F. Wingate

Wingate's uncle, Paine Wingate, was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Justice of the Supreme Court, all of New Hampshire.

Kyl

Jon Kyl (born 1942), U.S. Senator from Arizona (1995–present)

Lawrence Di Rita

Di Rita was Policy Director to the 1996 Presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm and Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison from 1996 until 2001.

Laxalt

Paul Laxalt (born August 2, 1922), former American District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, Governor of Nevada and U.S. Senator

Lime Rock, Connecticut

U.S. Senator William Henry Barnum, the chief executive of Barnum and Richardson and longest serving Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, resided in Lime Rock, and was the founder of Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Lime Rock.

Otis family

Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Third Mayor of Boston; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Massachusetts District Attorney; Son of Samuel Allyne Otis.

Renewable energy debate

29 June 2003: After the Cape Wind project was proposed several miles off the coast of Cape Cod, some people raised objections, including U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy who owned a summer home in the area.

Richard W. Mallary

He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, losing to present U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy in his initial run for the U.S. Senate.

Robert Laxalt

Robert was the younger brother of Paul Laxalt, former Nevada governor (1967-1971) and U.S. Senator (1974-1987).

Robert Levinson

On January 13, 2009, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson revealed during Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing that he believes Robert Levinson is being held in a secret prison in Iran.

Scouting in Wyoming

While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U.S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.

Symington family

James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877–1952), New York Assemblyman 1905–1910, U.S. Senator from New York 1915–1927, U.S. Representative from New York 1933–1951.

Taryn Southern

On July 2, 2007, she released a comedic YouTube video called Hott4Hill in support of the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton.

Thomas Hicks

Thomas Holliday Hicks (1798–1865), former U.S. senator and governor of Maryland

Thomas O. Melia

Melia began his career as a research assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York) in 1980 and eventually became Senior Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy.

Time Warner Cable Internet

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Eric Massa, both of whom represent portions of the Rochester, New York market that would be affected by the changes, announced their opposition to the plan and even went as far as to threaten legislation to ban such a scheme.

Tracy A. Henke

Prior to serving at DOJ, she was Senior Policy Advisor for U.S. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri, and before that, she worked for Senator Jack Danforth.

United States Senate election in Montana, 1976

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield decided to retire instead of seeking a fifth term.

United States Senate election in New Jersey, 1996

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Bradley decided to retire instead of seeking a fourth term.

United States Senate election in Ohio, 1994

Joel Hyatt, businessman and son-in-law of incumbent U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum

Vermont Democratic primary, 2008

The delegates selected in advance were 5 Democratic National Committee members, U.S. Representative from Vermont Peter Welch, and U.S. Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy.

Vote-by-mail in Oregon

Individuals which supported the measure included then-Governor John Kitzhaber, Oregon Secretary of State Phil Keisling, and former U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield.

William Harvey Gibson

Among Gibson's early schoolmates were Anson Burlingame (diplomat), Consul Wilshire Butterfield (author and historian), O. D. Conger (U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator from Michigan), and Charles Foster (35th Governor of Ohio and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury).