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Sergei Sobko

Sergei Vasiljevich Sobko (born 1949) is a Russian politician, Chairman of the Russian Christian-Social Movement and deputy of the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.


Adam Benjamin, Jr.

As a state legislator, Mr. Benjamin developed a new code of ethics for legislators, worked on a new state medical malpractice act, and facilitated court reform for the Lake County Superior Court system.

Amite City, Louisiana

Joanne Verger, Oregon legislator and first woman mayor of Coos Bay, Oregon

Chai Trong-rong

Chai was elected a legislator representing Chiayi City in 1992.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782–1862), American lawyer and legislator; represented, as Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania's first congressional district in 1813–15 and, as Democrat, 3rd district in 1841–43 and 4th district in 1843–49

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

Barnes' first original play was the blank verse drama Octavia Bragaldi, or, The Confession, which took the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy (the 1825 murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp) and set it in 15th century Milan, a popular trope of the day.

Chuck Hardwick

Charles Leighton Hardwick (born November 8, 1941 in Pulaski County, Kentucky) is a former state legislator in New Jersey, and a former Senior Vice President at Pfizer.

Coffee Creek, Montana

Wesley L. Packard, Wisconsin businessman and legislator, was born in Coffee Creek.

David Hickman

David Henry Hickman (1821–1869), legislator and businessman from Columbia, Missouri

Edward Ziegler

Edward Danner Ziegler (1844–1931), American lawyer, local official and Democratic legislator who represented Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district from 1899 to 1901

Farris B. Streeter

Ferris B. Streeter (September 24, 1819-August 19, 1877) (his first name is sometimes spelled "Farris") was a Pennsylvania attorney, legislator and jurist who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury.

Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft

The bill was passed in the subsequent legislative session (2006) under the leadership of gay legislator, Rep. Ed Murray (D) of the 43rd legislative district and after the defection of Republican State Senator, Bill Finkbeiner, who subsequently retired and whose seat was captured by Democrat and Microsoft alumnus, Eric Oemig.

George Towns

George W. Towns (1801–1854), United States lawyer, legislator, and politician

Georgia during Reconstruction

African American legislator Abram Colby was pulled out of his home by a mob and given 100 lashes with a whip.

Henderson, Minnesota

Terry Dempsey - Minnesota State Legislator (1978–1992); State District Court Judge (1992–2002)

Herman Marth

Herman Arthur Marth (January 28, 1880 - March 11, 1970) was a chef, restaurateur, union organizer, and Socialist state legislator from Wausau, Wisconsin who served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, from 1918-1920.

Hôpital d'instruction des armées Percy

Bassel Fleihan, a Lebanese legislator and Minister of Economy and Commerce was treated at Percy, having suffered major burns on 95% of his body when a massive bomb exploded on the Beirut seafront as he passed by in former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's motorcade on February 14, 2005.

Houston, Minnesota

Everett Bidwell, Wisconsin legislator, served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin Senate; born in Houston.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Another legislator at the party, William Findley, published an account of the remarks, and the subsequent controversy led to Brackenridge's electoral defeat.

John Swinburne

Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831–1914), English legislator who served as High Sheriff of Northumberland, grandson of Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Jones, Isabela

The southern portion of Echague separated by Cagayan River was created into a municipality named Jones in honor of an American Legislator, William Atkinson Jones, who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916, and was inaugurated on January 1, 1921.

Jorge Banicevich

Banicevich served as Mayor of 28 de Noviembre in Santa Cruz and as a provincial state legislator between 2003 and 2007.

José Morales

José María Morales (1818–1894), military officer and Afro-Argentine legislator

Joseph Palmer

Joseph B. Palmer (1825–1890), American lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general in the American Civil War

Joseph T. Copeland

Joseph Tarr Copeland, already a distinguished former legislator and Michigan Supreme Court Justice, sold his 136-acre estate in section 32 of Pontiac Township, Michigan in 1858.

Little Prairie, Wisconsin

Adam Ray, Wisconsin state and territorial legislator and businessman, owned a tavern in Little Prairie.

Mark Olson

Mark Douglas Olson (born 1955), U.S. politician, Minnesota state legislator

Martin Schreiber

Martin J. Schreiber (born 1939), his son, Democratic legislator and Acting Governor of Wisconsin

Monroe Sweetland

During his years as a part-time Oregon legislator, Sweetland was a newspaper publisher in Milwaukie (his home), while also owning papers in Newport, and Molalla.

Murphy J. Foster

Foster appointed another Tensas Parish legislator, Thomas M. Wade of Newellton to the state board of education; Wade was later the long-term Tensas Parish school superintendent.

Norman Jones

Norman Gerry Jones (born 1932), Australian political organiser and legislator

Owen Burns

The county seat, Burnsville, North Carolina is named for Owen's grandfather, Otway Burnes, Sr., a privateer naval hero and legislator, and the town of Otway, in Carteret County, North Carolina also is named for him.

Paul Herbert

Paul M. Herbert (1889–1983), American legislator and state executive

Paul Yoder

Paul P. Yoder (1897–1965), American legislator and state executive

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.

Postpartum psychosis

In 2009, Texas legislator Jessica Farrar proposed a bill that would recognize postpartum psychosis as a defense for mothers who kill their infants.

Progressive Majority

Public officials elected with the help of Progressive Majority include California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Washington House of Representatives Majority Floor Leader Larry Springer, Washington state senator and 2007 Humane Society of the United States state legislator of the year Brian Weinstein, and Arizona state senator Paula Aboud, one of Arizona's few openly gay elected officials.

Robinson Creek, Kentucky

Reuben May, Wisconsin legislator, was born in Robinson Creek.

Sam Reed

His opponents were Laura Ruderman, a state legislator, and Jacqueline Passey, a college student.

Sarah Weddington

Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945), is an American attorney, law professor, and former Texas state legislator best known for representing "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court.

Scobey, Montana

The city was named by local rancher Mansfield Daniels, after whom Daniels County is named, for his friend Major Charles Richardson Anderson Scobey, a cattleman from the Glendive area who served as a Montana Territory legislator and an Indian agent at Fort Peck and Poplar.

Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Blatt married Ethel Green on March 20, 1920 and they had one son, Solomon Blatt, Jr. Blatt served for 53 consecutive years in the legislature and was honored by the Council of State Governments as the longest serving state legislator in the nation.

Symonston, Australian Capital Territory

Symonston is named after Sir Josiah Symon a Legislator, Federalist and one of the Founders of the Constitution of Australia.

Úvalno

Hans Kudlich (1823-1917) – Austrian political activist, Austrian legislator, writer and physician

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.

Vinod Saroj

He is son of late politician Ramnath Saroj, who served as two time legislator from 1996 to 2007, winning the assembly elections 1996 and 2002 for Bihar constituency of district Pratapgarh.

Walter Lafferty

Lafferty spent the majority of his career both as a legislator and as an attorney attempting to have millions of acres of land previously owned by the Oregon and California Railroad come under Oregon state control, rather than the control of the U.S. federal government.

William Beck

William Beck Ochiltreer (1811–1867), settle, judge, and legislator in Texas

Wisconsin State Federation of Labor

Frank J. Weber: seaman, union organizer, first president of the WSFL, and Socialist state legislator

Yellapu

Kamala Devi in the presence of BJP leader Ch. Vidaysagar Rao, Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar, legislator A. Praveen Reddy, former legislators E. Peddi Reddy and Chada Venkat Reddy, freedom fighter Boinpalli Venkat Rama Rao.


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