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Aldona Wos

She was appointed North Carolina State Chair of Women for Senator Elizabeth Dole, and the North Carolina Finance Co-Chair for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign.

Ben Shapiro

On February 7, 2013, Shapiro published an article citing unspecified Senate sources who claimed that a group named "Friends of Hamas" was among foreign contributors to the political campaign of Chuck Hagel, a former US Senator awaiting confirmation as Secretary of Defense as a nominee of President Barack Obama.

Fiji Focus

The inaugural edition of the newspaper, on June 13, 2009, included articles entitled "Tourism grows", "US Senator moots new approach to Fiji", "Support for Peoples Charter expands", "Govt to improve services", and "Devaluation positive".

Galen Clark

He contributed to the writing and passage of legislation to protect the area, gaining support of US Senator John Conness from California.

Lucy Lambert Hale

Lucy Lambert Hale (January 1, 1841 – October 15, 1915) was the daughter of US Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, DC society belle.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Priscilla Cooper Tyler

While playing Desdemona in a production of Othello in Richmond, Virginia she met Robert Tyler, the eldest son of wealthy plantation owner and former US Senator John Tyler.

Silver State Helicopters

On 23 May 2008 US Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla) called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of Silver State, indicating that he believes that it was a Ponzi scheme.

The American Ireland Fund

US Senator Susan Collins was another honoree at the 2008 gala dinner who received the Distinguished Leadership Award.

UK Unionist Party

The UKUP (and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)) refused to accept US Senator George Mitchell as chairman of the multi-party talks and tried to obstruct him in the undertaking of his tasks.


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Aging with Dignity

Founding advisory board members include former Florida Governors Lawton Chiles, Jeb Bush, and Bob Graham, Assistant Secretary on Aging Josefina Carbonell and US Senator Bill Nelson among others.

Alva B. Adams Tunnel

The tunnel was posthumously named for its chief advocate, US Senator Alva B. Adams.

Bunning

Jim Bunning (b. 1931), US Senator from Kentucky, and former Major League Baseball pitcher

Caroline Hampton

She was a member of a prominent southern family; her uncle, Wade Hampton III, was a Confederate General, governor of South Carolina, and a US senator.

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 55% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50.2% of the vote against Lynn Swann.

Clinton County, Pennsylvania

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 54% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 56% of the vote against Lynn Swann.

Cy A. Adler

For his effort to see to completion a park stretching the entire length of the Hudson River shore of the island of Manhattan, Adler was recognized by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dan Saltzman

His political career has included a staff position with US Senator Ron Wyden, five years as a Multnomah County Commissioner (1993–1998), and his current third term as a City of Portland Commissioner.

Defense Contract Audit Agency

US Senator Claire McCaskill said GAO may have uncovered the "biggest auditing scandal in the history of this town," and asked the DoD to immediately fire the supervisors cited in the report.

Don't let the fire go out

"Don't let the fire go out" is a phrase used during the 2000 election in a campaign to elect Mel Carnahan to the United States Senate after his death, and Don't Let the Fire Go Out is a book written by his widow, US Senator Jean Carnahan, on the same subject.

Donna Hughes

Donna Rice Hughes (born 1958), former associate of US Senator Gary Hart and anti-pornography activist

El Paso International Airport

Some attempted to attribute the accident to US Senator Phil Gramm, as McCoy was due to testify against Senator Gramm's shakedown of campaign contributions made by the El Paso Small Business Administration office.

Emily Baldwin

On 25 October 1820 she married Roger Sherman Baldwin, who became the Connecticut, Governor in 1844 and US Senator in 1847.

George Ivan Smith

Where he and his colleague Sir Brian Urquhart were kidnapped and beaten by Katangese paratroopers in the presence of US Senator Thomas Dodd.

Hamilton County, Indiana

Even US senator Evan Bayh, in spite of his landslide victories in 1998 and 2004, had failed to carry Hamilton County in either election.

Henry Clay, Jr.

(April 10, 1811 – February 23, 1847) was an American politician and soldier from Kentucky, the third son of US Senator and Congressman Henry Clay and Lucretia Hart Clay.

Jeffrey Trammell

Trammell is the great-nephew of Park Trammell, a Florida politician who served as governor and US senator.

John Conness

(Senators were still selected by state legislatures then.) US Senator John Conness introduced the bill to protect the land that became Yosemite National Park.

John Crittenden

John J. Crittenden (1786–1863), US Senator, Attorney General of the United States and author of the Crittenden Compromise

Karapatan

In March 2007, in the capacity of representing KARAPATAN, she presented on the extra-judicial political killings before the United States East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee chaired by US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Cal).

Leokadia Makarska-Cermak

Leokadia Makarska-Čermák or Lily Čermák (in Czech: Leokadia Čermáková), known in the US for painting US Senator Charles Schumer, New York City Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, was born in Polanica-Zdrój, Poland.

Lisa Caputo

Prior to that, Caputo ran Al Gore’s media operations at the 1992 Democratic National Convention and was the Press Secretary to US Senator Tim Wirth and to US Representative Bob Traxler.

Lovettsville, Virginia

It was the worst US history at that time, killing 25 people including a US Senator, and became known as the Lovettsville air disaster.

Nathaniel G. S. Hart

His four sisters married men of some renown – Ann married US Senator James Brown of Louisiana, Eliza married the surgeon Dr. Richard Pindell, Susanna married the lawyer Samuel Price and Lucretia married Henry Clay.

Pete Perry

They interrupted Admiral Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as he spoke to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, US Senator John Kerry.

Rantoul

Robert Rantoul, Jr., US Senator and US Representative from Massachusetts

Robert Bond

It failed because of the objections of US senator Henry Cabot Lodge.

Senator Bobby

On side two, the comedian uses the alias, Senator Everett McKinley, in his impression of Republican US Senator Everett Dirksen singing the same song.

Shamsi Airfield

The Times investigation was in response to a statement by US Senator Dianne Feinstein that the CIA was basing its drone aircraft in Pakistan.

Stephen Harriman Long

In March 1819 he married Martha Hodgkiss of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sister of Isabella Hodgkiss Norvell, wife of US Senator John Norvell.

The Limits to Growth

Some of the notable books published after 1972 include the State of the World reports issued by the Worldwatch Institute (produced annually since 1984); the influential Our Common Future, published by the UN’s World Commission on Environment and Development (1987); Earth in the Balance, written by then-US senator Al Gore (1992); and Earth Odyssey (ISBN 978-0767900591) by journalist Mark Hertsgaard (1999).

Thomas Walsh

Thomas J. Walsh (1859–1933), American lawyer and US Senator from Montana

Tunisian Community Center

In their support for the Tunisian Revolution's aims toward freedom and democracy, the TCC has written to the US Senator of California Barbara Boxer, requesting to freeze the overthrown President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's assets.

Wendell H. Furry

In 1953, he was subpoenaed several times as a suspected communist by the House Unamerican Activities Committee and by US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege in refusing to answer questions about his past membership in the Communist Party.