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Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

Representative Howard McKeon, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services, said transferring Warsame out of Guantanamo "directly contradicts Congressional intent and the will of the American people", and Senator Susan Collins stated that captured foreign nationals "should be tried in a military commission, not a federal civilian court in New York or anywhere else in our country".

Air Force Financial Services Center

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by United States Senator John Thune, Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, senior Air Force official, and Rapid City civic leaders.

American Cocker Spaniel

In 1952, an American Cocker Spaniel became a household name when United States Senator Richard Nixon made his Checkers speech on 23 September.

Amherst County, Virginia

Powhatan Ellis, (1790–1863), born in Amherst County, justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States Senator from Mississippi, and minister to Mexico.

Amy Holmes

After working for several years for Independent Women's Forum, from 2003 to 2006 Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and the Republican Majority Leader.

Andrews Causeway

The President, at 11:05 a.m., alighted from his car and was greeted by Mrs. Charles O. Andrews (widow of the former United States Senator) and Mr. Charles O. Andrews, Jr.

Bayard, West Virginia

Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware (1923–1929).

Boiler Room Girls

Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, who died a year after RFK's campaign, off Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in a highly publicized and controversial car accident involving her driver, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who pleaded guilty after leaving the scene of an accident;

Brad Pfaff

Prior to a career in public service, Pfaff served as a legislative assistant and a staff member for Congressman Ron Kind and United States Senator Herb Kohl.

California Democratic primary, 2000

Vice President Al Gore carried the primary in a landslide over former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.

Charles Lanman

Charles Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.

Cloud County, Kansas

Frank Carlson was an American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas and United States Representative and United States Senator from Kansas.

Constitution Restoration Act

The Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 (originally "of 2004") is a proposed federal law filed on March 3, 2005 by United States Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Representative Robert Aderholt (R-AL).

Electoral history of Bernie Sanders

The electoral history of Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont (2007–present), Representative from Vermont's At-large District (1991–2007), and Mayor of Burlington (1981–1989).

Eugene Roche

Roche was also known on Airwolf as United States Senator William Dietz in the pilot episode "Shadow of the Hawke" in season 1 and as a drunken friend of Dominic Santini's named Eddie in the episode "Firestorm" in season 2.

Gerard F. Doherty

Doherty also worked as a campaign coordinator for United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody.

Hard Call

Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them is a book written by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter.

Initial Reaction Force

Camp authorities confirmed every ERF action was filmed, and Senator Patrick Leahy called for the recordings to be made available to the Senate Judiciary Committee, to see if they contained instances of the kind of abuse recorded in the Abu Ghraib trophy photos.

Iver Johnson

Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Presidential candidate United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, California on 5 June 1968 with an eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 caliber Cadet 55-A revolver (serial number H-53725, Trial-People's Exhibit #6, misidentified in trial testimony as S/N H-18602).

James M. Tunnell, Jr.

James Miller Tunnell, Jr (June 17, 1910 – January 10, 1986) was the Democratic Party nominee for United States Senator from Delaware in the United States Senate elections, 1966.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Of note is that future United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell competed for the United States in the competition, though he did not win a medal.

Linconia

Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle African Americans from the United States.

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.

Marat Tazhin

Tazhin met with United States Senator Richard Lugar in Astana on 7 February 2006 to discuss biological weapon nonproliferation measures and cooperation with U.S. scientists.

Margaret Anne Staggers

In 1978, Staggers served as a delegate to the 1976 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City where she voted to nominate United States Senator Robert Byrd as the Democratic candidate for the 1976 United States presidential election.

Mario Procaccino

Procaccino and O'Connor were elected, but Beame was defeated by the Republican and Liberal Party of New York joint nominee, John V. Lindsay, a member of the United States House of Representatives and a then ally of fellow New York liberal Republicans Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and United States Senator Jacob K. Javits.

Mark Mays

In October 2007, 41 Democratic United States Senators sent a letter of request to Mays, asking him to renounce Rush Limbaugh for his comments allegedly referring to all soldiers who disagreed with the Iraq War as "phony soldiers".

Marshall Neilan

Having battled alcoholism for a large part of his adult life, twenty years after he made his last film, Neilan returned to acting on the screen in a small role portraying an aging and less than enlightened United States Senator in the Elia Kazan film, A Face in the Crowd.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Melissa Winter

She worked for then Congressman Norman Mineta for seven years as his Staff Assistant and then Executive Assistant before working for Senator Joe Lieberman.

Otelia M. McGill

Otelia (née Mahone) McGill of Petersburg, Virginia was the daughter of Otelia (née Butler) Mahone and Confederate General and United States Senator William Mahone.

Raymond H. Fleming

Seen as an ally of the political organization run by Senator Huey Long and Governor O.K. Allen, in 1934 Fleming deployed National Guardsmen to the offices of election officials in New Orleans when Allen declared martial law during a disputed election between the Long-Allen group and a group headed by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Rockline

Notable non-musical guests include then Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton with running mate, then-United States Senator from Tennessee Al Gore during their presidential campaign in 1992; and on December 16, 1993 radio superstar Howard Stern, the latter of whom was promoting his New Year's Eve Pay-per-view special.

Santa Barbara County, California

It is generally believed that the inspiration for Earth Day was the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill; however, Gaylord Nelson, the senator who proposed the idea, has never directly cited any direct cause for the establishment of the holiday.

Share Our Wealth

Share The Wealth was a movement begun in February 1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana.

South Tar River Greenway

On August 11, 2011, United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Senator Kay Hagan announced Greenville will receive $907,609 to design and construct the next phase of the greenway.

The Pennington School

Rudy Boschwitz (born 1930, class of 1947): United States Senator, former chairman National Republican Senatorial Committee.

The San Francisco Foundation

The award was founded in the 1930s by a bequest in the will of civic leader and former Senator James D. Phelan.

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.

United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

The committee was chaired by a senator from the majority party until the 83rd Congress, when the chairmanship began to alternate between a majority representative and majority senator.

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 Senate election in Illinois, 1966

Incumbent Democratic United States Senator Paul Douglas, seeking a fourth term in the United States Senate, faced off against Republican Charles H. Percy, a businessman and the 1964 Republican nominee for Governor of Illinois.

United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations

On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

Vance County, North Carolina

The county is named after Zebulon Baird Vance, a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States senator (1879–1894).

Vincent J. Murphy

In 1943 Murphy ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey against Republican Walter Evans Edge, who had come out of retirement after serving as United States Senator and United States Ambassador to France, as well as Governor during World War I.

William R. Reed

Reed first joined the Big Ten in 1939 before leaving for a six-year period to serve in the United States Navy during World War II and then as an assistant to Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator from Michigan.

William Tyndale College

In that same year, United States Senator Debbie Stabenow and Sen. Carl Levin also helped the college receive federal funding totaling $461,000.


see also

1790 in the United States

January 6 – Arnold Naudain, United States Senator from Delaware from 1830 till 1836.

1798 in the United States

January 4 – William Crosby Dawson, United States Senator from Georgia from 1849 till 1855.

1805 in the United States

October 9 – William M. Gwin, United States Senator from California from 1850 till 1855 and from 1857 till 1861.

1848 in the United States

May 10 – Lafayette Young, United States Senator from Iowa from 1910 till 1911.

March 26 – Edward O. Wolcott, United States Senator from Colorado from 1889 till 1901.

1880 in the United States

February 14 – Samuel G. Arnold, United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1862 till 1863.

1885 in the United States

December 29 – James E. Bailey, United States Senator from Tennessee from 1877 till 1881.

1894 in the United States

November 23 – Andrew Frank Schoeppel, United States Senator from Kansas from 1947 till 1962.

1895 in the United States

May 15 – Prescott Bush, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1952 till 1963.

1909 in the United States

May 15 – J. Caleb Boggs, United States Senator from Delaware from 1961 till 1973.

Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori

A local newspaperman, Andrew Marschalk, who was originally from New York, sent a copy to United States Senator Thomas Reed From Mississippi who was then in town at the time, who forwarded it to the U.S. Consulate in Morocco.

Altmore

The House was the birthplace of James Shields who became a well-known politician in North America (being the only person to have served as a United States Senator from three different states) and a well known name during the American Civil War.

Andrew Szanton

During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven.

Arthur Stewart

Tom Stewart (Arthur Thomas Stewart, 1892–1972), Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee

Ayotte

Kelly Ayotte (born 1968), junior United States Senator of New Hampshire and member of the Republican Party

Belcaro, Denver

The neighborhood gets its name from the mansion of Lawrence C. Phipps (1862-1958) who was a United States Senator who represented Colorado from 1919-1931.

Benjamin Webb

Benjamin Joseph Webb (1814–1897), United States senator, historian, and editor

Birmingham School of Law

Richard Shelby (b. 1934), Senior United States Senator from Alabama

Candida Höfer

Major private collectors include United States Senator Thomas Eagleton.

Caroline Bright

While in college, Caroline served as an intern in the Burlington office of United States Senator Patrick Leahy and worked for Burlington City Arts as an Events Coordinator.

Daniel Evans

Daniel J. Evans (born 1925), Governor of Washington and United States Senator

David Atkinson

David Rice Atchison (1807–1886), sometimes spelled Atkinson, United States senator

Harold Van Heuvelen

Bob Van Heuvelen was professionally acquainted with United States Senator Kent Conrad, and mentioned the symphony to him; Conrad in turn contacted Senator Carl Levin, who as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee and a connoisseur of classical music, requested a copy of the recording.

Henry Cabot Lodge House

It was designated as the only known residential building associated with United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 – 1924).

James Huffman

Jim Huffman (born 1945), law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School and 2010 candidate for United States Senator from Oregon

Jennifer Donahue

After the 1992 presidential race, Donahue began a job as the press secretary for United States Senator Hank Brown.

Jerris Leonard

He ran against United States Senator Gaylord Nelson in the 1968 United States Senate election and was defeated.

John Dryden Kuser

John Dryden Kuser's grandfather, John Fairfield Dryden, was the founder of Prudential Insurance Company and a United States Senator from 1902 to 1907.

John H. Bankhead

United States Senator John H. Bankhead II and Speaker of the House William Brockman Bankhead were his sons, and actress Tallulah Bankhead was his granddaughter.

John Thurston

John Mellen Thurston (1847–1916), Republican United States Senator from Nebraska

Joseph Fowler

Joseph S. Fowler (1820–1902), United States Senator from Tennessee

Josiah Evans

Josiah J. Evans (1786–1858), United States Senator from South Carolina

KRMS

Among the company's investors was United States Senator John C. Danforth.

Lake Nighthorse

Lake Nighthorse is named in honor of former United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo.

Margaret Eaton

Margaret O'Neill Eaton, American woman (wife of a United States Senator) involved in the "Petticoat Affair"

Pat Murray

Patty Murray (born 1950), United States Senator from Washington

Paul Kirk

Paul G. Kirk (born 1938), former United States Senator from Massachusetts and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee

Peace Ship

Also critical of Ford’s endeavor were former United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew and one- time presidential candidate Alton B. Parker.

Philip A. Hart Plaza

The plaza opened in 1975 and in 1976 was dedicated to Philip Hart, a United States Senator from 1959 to 1976.

Richard Durbin

Richard Joseph Durbin (Dick Durbin), United States Senator from the state of Illinois

Richard Field

Richard Stockton Field, (1803–1870), a United States Senator from New Jersey, and later a United States federal judge

Sarbanes

Paul Sarbanes (born 1933), former United States Senator from Maryland

Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

Among those invited to address the two-day conference were United States Senator Gaylord Nelson, and Sigurd Olson.

Ten Eyck

John C. Ten Eyck (1814-1879), a United States Senator from New Jersey

The Times of Harvey Milk

Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage.

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd (1907–1971), United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut

Thomas Hudson Connell

Mr. Connell was the 1978 Republican Candidate for Connecticut's 2nd congressional district, losing the election to Christopher Dodd who went on to become a United States Senator and Presidential Contender.

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.

William Roach

William N. Roach (1840–1902), United States Senator from North Dakota