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9 unusual facts about state Senator


Boyd Brown

Locally, Brown and State Senator Creighton Coleman took aim at their local school board to fix funding inequities in the school system.

Flag and seal of Illinois

In 1867, he asked State Senator Allen C. Fuller to introduce legislation requiring a new seal, and suggested to Fuller that the words of the state motto be reversed, from "State Sovereignty, National Union", to "National Union, State Sovereignty".

Illinois Channel

In November 2003, then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama seeking the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat, was interviewed on the Illinois Channel.

Mark Doumit

Mark Doumit was a Washington State Senator who represented the 19th District (Cathlamet, Washington).

Parlange Plantation House

Together they had one son, also named Charles, who survived the Civil War to begin a distinguished career as a State Senator, United States District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, federal judge, and finally justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

Auguste Provosty (1818–1868) – State Senator, Member of 1860–61 La Secession Convention – Chaired Committee which produced the bilingual Secession Ordinance.

South Texas Archives and Special Collections

The South Texas Archives also houses the extensive collections of State Senator Carlos. F. Truan; State Representative Irma Rangel, and early South Texas political boss and County Judge, J.T. Canales.

State Senator

This changed in 1963 when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that state legislatures must apportion seats in both houses according to population.

Thomas Kirwan

Kirwan had a reputation as a "reformer" after a 2007 lawsuit where he and Democratic State Senator Liz Krueger joined together to sue Silver, former Governor of New York George Pataki and then Senate Leader Joe Bruno over the infamous legislative dysfunction at the New York State Capitol in Albany, citing disenfranchisement of minority party members of both houses.


Andre Cushing III

Cushing is a Republican State Senator from Maine's 33rd Senate District, representing Carmel, Charleston,Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dixmont, Etna, Exeter, Garland, Glenburn, Hampden, Kenduskeag, Levant, Newburgh, Newport, Plymouth, and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.

Andy Gardiner

When Republican State Senator Daniel Webster was unable to seek re-election in the 9th District, which included parts of Orange County, Osceola County, and Seminole County, due to term limits, Gardiner defeated Darius Davis, a teacher and the Democratic nominee, with 58% of the vote to win the seat.

Atlantic City Expressway

Plans resurfaced for the road in the 1950s when a group of officials led by State Senator Frank S. Farley pushed for a road to help the area economy.

Bill Stall

Stall was also proud of a 2001 series of editorials he wrote supporting Senate Bill 221, a measure submitted by State Senator Sheila Kuehl that would require real estate developers of projects with 500 or more units to demonstrate that the homes would have access to a long-term water supply.

Bruce Antone

Antone worked as a legislative aide to State Senator Buddy Dyer from 1992 to 1999, including serving as his chief of staff.

California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1998

State Assemblyman and Speaker of the Assembly Cruz Bustamante, the Democratic nominee, decisively defeated the Republican nominee, State Senator Tim Leslie, for the office previously held by incumbent Gray Davis, who chose not to seek re-election in favor of running for governor.

Charlie Hennigan

Then State Senator Harold Montgomery, State Representative, Parey Branton, Mayor Frank T. Norman, and other local officials presented Hennigan with a signed document of his accomplishments.

George Norcross III

His brother Donald Norcross is the current chairman and a state senator representing the 5th Legislative District.

Gerry P. Little

During his 19 years as Chief of Staff for State Senator Leonard T. Connors Jr., Assemblyman Christopher J. Connors and former Assemblyman Jeffrey Moran, Freeholder Little worked closely with 9th District legislators on numerous bills.

Grover C. Richman, Jr.

Meyner nominated him for a second term in January 1958, but Albert McCay, the State Senator from Richman's home county of Burlington, exercised his right of senatorial courtesy and opposed the renomination.

Hell Hole Swamp

They were 1st congressional district Representative L. Mendel Rivers, Governor of South Carolina Robert Evander McNair, state Senator Rembert Dennis, and Columbia mayor Lester Bates.

Isaiah Rose

Isaiah R. Rose (June 26, 1843 - November 26, 1916) was a Republican state senator for Ohio, a Washington County sheriff and a Civil War veteran.

James B. Gibson

He ran for the Democratic nomination for the 2006 gubernatorial election, but lost in the primary to State Senator Dina Titus.

James R. Domengeaux

Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.

Jimmy G. Shoalmire

In 1969, he completed the dissertation entitled "Carpetbagger Extraordinary: Marshall Harvey Twitchell, 1840-1905", a study of Marshall H. Twitchell, the Louisiana Republican state senator from Bienville and Red River parishes.

John A. Degnan

Degnan and then worked with State Senator Vincent L. Leibell and his Putnam Community Foundation, a nonprofit housing agency, to restore the building.

Kathlyn Kelly

Davis, however, called upon South Carolina state senator Harry I. Hughes to convince the legislature, successfully, to pay for her journey.

KBVA

The station is currently owned by Gayla Joy Hendren McKenzie, the daughter of Republican politician Kim Hendren and the sister of current state Senator Jim Hendren.

Lake Bruin

Former State Senator Clifford Cleveland Brooks in 1920 purchased the Botany Bay plantation on Lake Bruin.

Leonard Law

Republican State Senator Bill Leonard wrote the law to require private high schools, colleges and universities to protect their students' rights to freedom of speech "and other communication" that the government is required to protect for all of its citizens.

LeRoy J. Louden

LeRoy J. Louden (born October 12, 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Ellsworth, Nebraska, United States.

Louisiana state elections, 2010

Besides contributions to Clinton, Kerry, former state senator Cleo Fields, and former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson, a Dardenne commercial criticized Fayard's previous employment by Goldman Sachs, which later received a federal bailout: "Analysts like Fayard got rich but cost us billions."

Marianne Espinosa

State Senator John H. Dorsey announced that he would invoke senatorial courtesy to block her reappointment.

Norman Sisisky

A special election was held June 19, 2001 to fill his seat, and Republican State Senator Randy Forbes defeated Democratic State Senator Louise Lucas for the remainder of Sisisky's term; Forbes still holds the seat.

Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash

This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.

Oklahoma's 1st congressional district special election, 2002

The Republican primary featured a competitive contest between then-First Lady of Oklahoma Cathy Keating, and state Senator Scott Pruitt, and the eventual winner state Representative John Sullivan.

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Pennsylvania

In 2008, a similar bill with State Senator Mike Brubaker as its main sponsor, Senate Bill 1250, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Rhipicephalus microplus

In Louisiana, Governor Ruffin Pleasant in 1917 signed legislation sponsored by freshman State Senator Norris C. Williamson of East Carroll Parish to authorize state funding to eradicate the cattle tick.

Rob Shadoin

In 2013, Shadoin and State Senator Mike Walsworth of West Monroe obtained passage of legislation to name the Louisiana Highway 33 bridge over Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville in honor of the late State Representative James Peyton Smith of Union Parish.

Ronald J. Rabin

Ronald Joseph Rabin (born May 16, 1932) is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina, representing the 12th district, encompassing Harnett, Johnston, Lee Counties.

Sonora, Texas

Former State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant was reared in Sonora and graduated from high school there.

State Accident Insurance Fund

In 2005, state senator Vicki Walker publicly questioned whether SAIF's cost savings was coming at the expense of denying legitimate claims.

Steve De Jarnatt

His father, Arlie De Jarnatt, was a teacher and public representative who taught history and civics at Monticello Middle School and later R.A. Long High School, as well as serving five terms as a Democratic Party member of the Washington House of Representatives and six years as a state senator.

Terrytown, Nebraska

Terrytown was founded in 1949 by Terry Carpenter, a successful Scottsbluff businessman and a famous Nebraska state senator in the 1950s and 1960s.

Texas Book Festival

The Texas Book Festival was established in 1995 by Laura Bush, then the First Lady of Texas, and Mary Margaret Farabee, wife of former State Senator Ray Farabee.

Tom Foerster

Foerster joined Leroy Irvis (who would go on to serve as the first African American Speaker of the State House) and State Senator Eugene Scanlon in a much-heralded freshman legislative class.

U.S. Route 90

The four-laning of U.S. 90 was pushed in the 1990s by former State Senator Carl W. Bauer through his role as the chairman of the Governor’s Interstate 49 Task Force while also a member of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.

United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado, 2014

Lieutenant Governor Joseph Garcia and state Senator Gail Schwartz may seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Tipton.

United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota, 2006

State Representative Keith Ellison beat out Mike Erlandson, Slabo's chief-of-staff; Ember Reichgott Junge, a former State Senator; and Paul Ostrow, a Minneapolis City Councilman in the DFL primary.

United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1976

Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Robert Stroup, as state senator from Hazen, North Dakota.

Woods Fund of Chicago

Barack Obama - (Director 1994–2002) - Associate (1993–1996), Of counsel (1997–2004), Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland; Lecturer (1992–1996), Senior Lecturer (1996–2004), University of Chicago Law School; Illinois State Senator (1997–2004); winner (1993), Crain's Chicago Business "40 Under 40" award; former President (1990–1991), Harvard Law Review; former Executive Director (1985–1988), Developing Communities Project


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10th Utah Senate District

The current State Senator representing the 10th district is Aaron Osmond.

Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges

At a forum on the CCSF campus California State Senator James Beall and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano described legislation which would undo the monopoly the ACCJC holds on accreditation of California Community Colleges.

Amasa Parker

Amasa J. Parker, Jr. a state senator from New York and a general in the National Guard of New York (and the son of Amasa J. Parker).

Arcadia, Louisiana

Danny Roy Moore (born 1925), former state senator from Bienville and Claiborne parishes

Boardman High School

Joe Schiavoni, current Ohio state Senator representing Mahoning, Carroll, and parts of Stark and Tuscarawas Counties.

Clayton Hee

From 1984 until 1988, Hee served as the State Senator for the district encompassing Kailua to Kaneohe.

Colchester, Connecticut

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1803-1872), Bacon Academy graduate (1819), state senator, state's attorney and founder of Aetna Insurance Company (1846)

Compton I. White, Jr.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Dan Kotowski

As the State Senator for District 28 his associated representatives are District 55 representative Marty Molyan (D-Des Plaines) and District 56 representative Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg).

Dan W. Brown

After only one term in the House, Brown chose to run for State Senator in 2010, defeating incumbent Democrat Frank Barnitz to win the 16th district seat.

Daughtry

N. Leo Daughtry, American state senator from North Carolina (Republican)

David Roland

Roland also worked as Legislative Assistant to New Jersey State Senator, Byron Baer, dealing with constituent problems.

Dennis A. Ross

In 1996, Dennis ran unsuccessfully for the State Senate, losing to incumbent Democrat State Senator Rick Dantzler.

Don Koivisto

In 1990, Koivisto was elected a Michigan State Senator from the 38th district, succeeding Joe Mack who had represented much of the Upper Peninsula since 1960.

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Fluffernutter

In June 2006, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios gained national attention when he proposed legislation restricting the serving of Fluffernutter sandwiches in public schools.

Foster Campbell

Ron Gomez, a member of the Louisiana House from Lafayette and at the time a Democrat prior to later switching parties, describes Campbell, when he was a state senator, as "always having some populist, usually anti-business legislation moving through the process. Persistent is his middle name.".

Frank Stubblefield

Stubblefield unsuccessfully sought re-election to his House seat in 1974 but lost in the Democratic primary to state senator Carroll Hubbard who went on to win the general election.

Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act

On April 17, 2006, The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA) was authored by Georgia State Senator Chip Rogers, carried in the House by Georgia State Representative John Lunsford and signed into law by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.

Highland Park Community College

Among the alumni of Highland Park Community College is Michigan State Senator Martha G. Scott.

Hugh Barclay

Hugh Douglas Barclay (born 1932), New York State Senator and former United States Ambassador to El Salvador

Jeanette Núñez

She began her career as Chief of Staff for Florida State Senator Alex Díaz de la Portilla, where she was involved in legislative policy and constituent service.

Jim Rex

Rex finished second in the Democratic Primary to State Senator Vincent Sheheen, whom he endorsed for Governor in September.

John Nygren

In 2011, Nygren sought to run against incumbent Democratic state senator Dave Hansen, who was the subject of a recall election; but the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board ruled that he was two signatures short of the necessary 400 signatures on his nomination petition, and would not be on the ballot.

Kathleen Rice

The race pitted Rice against four Democratic opponents: then-State Senator Eric Schneiderman, former prosecutor Sean Coffey, former State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, and former insurance commissioner Eric Dinallo.

Kristin Smart Campus Security Act

The bill was written and sponsored by Democratic state Senator Mike Thompson, and was approved 61-0 in the California Legislature and signed into law by then-Governor Pete Wilson on August 19, 1998.

Leechburg, Pennsylvania

At the state level, Leechburg is in the 38th Senatorial District, represented by State Senator Jim Ferlo (D), and in the 55th Legislative District, represented by Rep. Joe Petrarca (D).

Lowenstein Sandler

Lewis J. Paper, the Democratic candidate for New Jersey State Senator in the 25th district in 1977, and a former Carter Administration official and author.

Michael Brennan

Michael F. Brennan, Mayor of Portland and former United States Democratic Party State Senator in Maine

Old Folks at Home

Crist then encouraged state Senator Tony Hill, who was the leader of the legislature's Black Caucus, to find a new song.

Pam Bondi

On November 2, 2010, she defeated Democratic State Senator Dan Gelber by a 55% to 41% margin to become the Attorney General of the State of Florida.

Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992

In March 2009, New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniack filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey claiming, amongst other things, that the PASPA unconstitutionally discriminates among the states by allowing four states to offer sports betting while disallowing the other forty-six states from enjoying the privilege.

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.

Ray Barnhart

In a letter to Democratic State Senator Kirk Watson of Austin, Barnhart said that the legislature, not the Texas Department of Transportation, is responsible for problems involving highways.

Raymond V. Haysbert

During the time of civil rights activism beginning in the early 1960s, Haysbert worked to elect black politicians, including Harry Cole as Maryland's first African-American state senator.

Richard L. Neuberger

Neuberger and State Senator and future Governor Robert Holmes were two of the leading liberals in the Oregon legislature at a time of Republican dominance.

Richard Ray

Ray lost to Republican state senator Mac Collins, a resident of the former Gingrich territory, by almost 10 points.

Robert H. Plymale

He appeared on Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution — Episode 3 as the State Senator who dined at a meal prepared by high school students from Huntington, WV.

Rod Shealy

In 2008, Shealy worked on the campaign of State Senator Catherine Ceips.

Samuel C. Pomeroy

State Senator York was also one of the brothers of Dr. William York, one of the murder victims of the Bloody Benders Family.

Semmes

Benedict Joseph Semmes (1789–1863), American politician and Maryland State Senator

Sherman P. Lloyd

Lloyd was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress, November 6, 1962 defeating fellow State Senator Bruce Jenkins.

Thomas L. Bromwell

It has been suggested that aspects of Bromwell's political career served, in part, as inspiration for the fictional Maryland State Senator Clay Davis, from HBO's The Wire.

Tracy, Minnesota

Jim Vickerman (born 1931) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.

Warren H. Carroll

During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

Washington's 39th legislative district

This urban district is represented by state senator Kirk Pearson and state representatives Dan Kristiansen (pos. 1) and Elizabeth Scott (pos. 2), all Republicans.

Washington's 3rd Legislative District

The largely rural district is represented by state senator Andy Billig (D) and state representatives Marcus Riccelli (D-pos. 1) and Timm Ormsby (D-pos. 2).

William Grayson

Grayson was the grandfather of William Grayson Carter, a Kentucky state senator, and Confederate General John Breckinridge Grayson.