Patrick Anthony McCarran was an American farmer,attorney,judge,and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno,Nevada,attended Nevada State University,and was a farmer and rancher. In 1902,he won election to the Nevada Assembly but left office in 1905 after an unsuccessful campaign for the Nevada State Senate. He studied law privately and was admitted to the bar in 1905,then won election as Nye County District Attorney. He served a two-year term,after which he returned to Reno. From 1913 to 1919,McCarran was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada,serving as chief justice from 1917 to 1919. His support for the aviation industry was well known and resulted in Paradise,Nevada's former McCarran Field being named in his honor.
The Michigan State University College of Law is the law school of Michigan State University,a public research university in East Lansing,Michigan. Established in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law,it was the first law school in the Detroit,Michigan area and the second in the state of Michigan. In October 2018,the college began a process to fully integrate into Michigan State University,changing from a private to a public law school. The integration with Michigan State University was finalized on August 17,2020.
James Graves Scrugham was an American politician. He was a Representative,a Senator,and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Franklin Knight Lane was an American progressive politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission,and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902,losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily Republican state.
John Worth Kern was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana. While the title was not official,he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader,while serving concurrently as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He was also the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 1908 presidential election.
James Hamilton Lewis was an American attorney and politician. Sometimes referred to as J. Ham Lewis or Ham Lewis,he represented Washington in the United States House of Representatives,and Illinois in the United States Senate. He was the first to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate.
The 38th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C. from March 4,1863,to March 4,1865,during the last two years of President Abraham Lincoln's first term in office. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1860 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority,and the House of Representatives had a Republican plurality.
Murray Delos Van Wagoner was an American politician. He served as the 38th governor of Michigan from 1941 to 1943.
Joseph Finch Guffey was an American business executive and Democratic Party politician from Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Elected from Pennsylvania to the United States Senate,he served two terms,from 1935 until 1947.
The 1912–13 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. They were the last U.S. Senate elections before the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,establishing direct elections for all Senate seats. Senators had been primarily chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1912 and 1913,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. Some states elected their senators directly even before passage of Seventeenth Amendment. Oregon pioneered direct election and experimented with different measures over several years until it succeeded in 1907. Soon after,Nebraska followed suit and laid the foundation for other states to adopt measures reflecting the people's will. By 1912,as many as 29 states elected senators either as nominees of their party's primary or in conjunction with a general election.
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was a Democratic Party politician from the US state of Arkansas who represented the state first in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to 1921 and then in the US Senate from 1921 until his death.
The Nevada Senate is the upper house of the Nevada Legislature,the state legislature of U.S. state of Nevada,the lower house being the Nevada Assembly. It currently (2012–2021) consists of 21 members from single-member districts. In the previous redistricting (2002–2011) there were 19 districts,two of which were multimember. Since 2012,there have been 21 districts,each formed by combining two neighboring state assembly districts. Each State Senator represented approximately 128,598 as of the 2010 United States Census. Article Four of the Constitution of Nevada sets that State Senators serve staggered four-year terms.
Denver Dickerson was Speaker of the Nevada Assembly in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was appointed Secretary of Guam in 1963 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. As the office included the duties of lieutenant governor at that time,Dickerson occasionally served as the acting governor of Guam during his term.
The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was an unincorporated territory of the United States that was established in 1902 and was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence. The Insular Government was preceded by the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands and was followed by the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
The 1994 United States Senate election in Michigan was held November 8,1994. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Don Riegle decided to retire and not run for re-election. Republican Spencer Abraham won the open seat,becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in Michigan since 1972 and the first Republican gain of the Class I Senate seat from Charles E. Potter since 1952. As of 2023,this was the last time the Republicans won a U.S. Senate election in Michigan.
Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan,564 U.S. 117 (2011),was a Supreme Court of the United States decision in which the Court held that the Nevada Ethics in Government Law,which required government officials recuse in cases involving a conflict of interest,is not unconstitutionally overbroad. Specifically,the law requires government officials to recuse themselves from advocating for and voting on the passage of legislation if private commitments to the interests of others materially affect the official's judgment. Under the terms of this law,the Nevada Commission on Ethics censured city councilman Michael Carrigan for voting on a land project for which his campaign manager was a paid consultant. Carrigan challenged his censure in court and the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in his favor,claiming that casting his vote was protected speech. The Supreme Court reversed,ruling that voting by a public official on a public matter is not First Amendment speech.
The United States Senate election of 1916 in New Jersey was held on November 7,1916.
The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday,November 5,2024. During this presidential election year,the President of the United States and Vice President will be elected. In addition,all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested to determine the membership of the 119th United States Congress. Thirteen state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
Jack Swift Berry was a forestry expert and lumberman and then two-term member of the California State Legislature from the Republican Party.
The 2018 United States attorney general elections were held on November 6,2018,in 30 states,2 territories,and the District of Columbia. The previous attorney general elections for this group of states took place in 2014,except in Vermont where attorneys general serve only two-year terms and elected their current attorney general in 2016.
