Michael Owen Johanns is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Nebraska from 2009 to 2015. He served as the 38th governor of Nebraska from 1999 until 2005,and was chair of the Midwestern Governors Association in 2002. In 2005,he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the secretary of agriculture,where he served from 2005 to 2007,becoming the fourth Nebraskan to hold that position.
John James Exon was an American businessman and politician who served as the 33rd Governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979,and as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,Exon never lost an election,and was the only Democrat ever to hold Nebraska's Class 2 U.S. Senate seat. He was elected governor in 1970,re-elected in 1974,elected to the Senate in 1978,and re-elected to that seat in 1984 and 1990. He is the only Nebraskan other than George W. Norris,the architect of Nebraska's unicameral legislature,to win five consecutive statewide elections.
William Emery Barrett was an American Republican politician from Nebraska who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2001 as the congressman for Nebraska's third congressional district.
Chris Beutler is an American politician and former Mayor of Lincoln,Nebraska,having served from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served in the Nebraska Legislature from 1979 to 1986 and from 1991 to 2006.
Debra Lynelle Fischer is an American politician and former educator serving as the senior United States senator from Nebraska,a seat she has held since 2013. A member of the Republican Party,Fischer is the third woman to represent Nebraska in the U.S. Senate and the first to be reelected.
John Bradley Ashford was an American politician who served in the Nebraska Legislature and the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.
Russ Karpisek is a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2007 to 2015.
Ken Haar is a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A resident of Malcolm,Haar held a seat in the Nebraska Legislature from 2009 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Nebraska Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The Legislature meets at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. With 49 members,known as "senators",the Nebraska Legislature is the smallest U.S. state legislature. A total of 25 members is required for a majority;however,in order to overcome a filibuster,a two-thirds vote of all members is required,which takes 33 votes.
Patty Pansing Brooks is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 28th district. Elected in November 2014,she assumed office on January 7,2015.
Carol Blood is an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. In 2016,she was elected to represent District 3 in Sarpy County in the Nebraska Legislature with 51.56% of the vote. In 2020 she was re-elected with 50.4% of the vote. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Nebraska gubernatorial election. Blood is a member of the Democratic Party,though elections to the Nebraska Legislature are officially nonpartisan.
Suzanne Geist is an American politician who served as a member of the state legislature in the U.S. state of Nebraska from 2017 until her resignation in 2023. She graduated from Pine Bluff High School in Pine Bluff,Arkansas in 1980. Afterwards,she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism and broadcasting in 1984.
Anthony Vargas is an American politician and former educator serving as a member of the Nebraska Legislature. Vargas represents the 7th district,which covers all of downtown Omaha and much of southeastern Omaha.
Robert Barnett Evnen is an American attorney and Republican politician in the state of Nebraska. He is the 27th Secretary of State of Nebraska,serving since 2019.
Anna Wishart is an American politician who has served in the Nebraska Legislature from the 27th district since 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Julie Slama is an American politician who serves in the Nebraska Legislature from the 1st district since 2019.
The 2022 Nebraska gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Nebraska. Incumbent Republican Governor Pete Ricketts was term-limited and unable to seek a third term. In the general election,Republican Jim Pillen went on to win the gubernatorial election by a 23-point margin.
The 2022 Nebraska Attorney General election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the next attorney general of Nebraska. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Doug Peterson was eligible to run for a third term,but he announced on December 14,2021 that he would not run for re-election.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Nebraska were held on November 8,2022,to elect the three U.S. representatives from the state of Nebraska,one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Nebraska gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives,elections to the U.S. Senate,and various state and local elections.
The Government of the U.S. State of Nebraska,established by the Nebraska Constitution,is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal Government of the United States. The state government has three branches:the executive,the legislative,and the judicial. Through a system of separation of powers,or "checks and balances," each of these branches has some authority to act on its own,and also some authority to regulate the other two branches,so that all three branches can limit and balance the others' authority. The State Government is based in Lincoln,the capital city of Nebraska.
