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Homer Earl Capehart was an American businessman and politician from Indiana. After serving in the United States Army during World War I,he became involved in the manufacture of record players and other products. Capehart later served 18 years (1945–1963) in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Indiana. Initially an isolationist on foreign policy,he took a more internationalist stance in later years;he retired after a narrow defeat for a fourth term in 1962.
The Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands is a political party in the U.S. Virgin Islands,and is affiliated with the Democratic Party at the nationwide level. It won the gubernatorial election of 2022 when the incumbent Democratic governor Albert Bryan was elected with 56 percent of the vote. In the last lesiglative election in November 2022,the party won 11 out of 15 seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands. Out of 30,000 active registered voters in the U.S. Virgin Islands,approximately 20,000 voters are registered Democrats.
The Republican Party in the Virgin Islands is a political party in the U.S. Virgin Islands,and is affiliated with the Republican Party at the national level.
The Legislature of the Virgin Islands is the territorial legislature of the United States Virgin Islands. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral,with a single house consisting of 15 senators,elected to two-year terms without term limits. The legislature meets in Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas.
The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands is the highest court in the territory of the United States Virgin Islands. The Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction over all appeals from the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands,a trial level court,on January 29,2007. The Supreme Court currently consists of a Chief Justice and three associate justices,but up to four associate justices may be appointed. Supreme Court justices are each appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Legislature for a ten-year term. There is no intermediate court of appeals,and the Supreme Court does not have discretion in hearing appeals. Appeals of Supreme Court decisions were heard by writ of certiorari by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit until December 29,2012,but since then they have been heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington,DC.
The United States Virgin Islands general election was held on 6 November 2012. Voters chose the non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,the Board of Education,the Board of Elections,and all fifteen seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.
Jonathan T. Capehart is an American journalist and liberal television commentator. He writes for The Washington Post's PostPartisan blog and is host of The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.
The Constitution of the British Virgin Islands is a predominantly codified constitution documented primarily within the Virgin Islands Constitution Order,2007 a statutory instrument of the United Kingdom. The 2007 Constitution was the fourth written constitution of the British Virgin Islands,and superseded the 1976 constitution. In addition to the constitution itself,a number of the constitutional powers of the British Virgin Islands government are specified a "letter of entrustment" from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which delegates powers to the British Virgin Islands government to represent itself in certain external affairs.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States Virgin Islands since July 9,2015,as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. On June 26,2015,the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment,legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The United States Virgin Islands general election was held on 4 November 2014. Voters chose the non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,all fifteen seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands,and the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
Cannabis in the United States Virgin Islands is legal for recreational use since January 18,2023,under territorial law. Legislation to legalize was passed by the territorial legislature in 2022,and was signed into law on January 18. Medical use was legalized in 2019 through a bill that passed the Senate 9–4. It remains illegal under federal law.
The Elective Governor Acts of 1968 are a pair of acts passed by the 90th United States Congress in 1968,which provide for the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Governor of Guam to be popularly elected,rather than appointed as they had been up to that point. The two acts are individually titled the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act and the Guam Elective Governor Act. The impetus for the acts came from extensive lobbying efforts by both Guamanians and Virgin Islanders. The Guam Legislature,led by Speaker Antonio Borja Won Pat,had begun lobbying Congress for popular elections in 1962. In the Virgin Islands,the act stemmed from the recommendations of the territory's first Constitutional Convention in 1964–5,which included the popular election of the governor. The acts were seen as a breakthrough for political reform both in Guam and the Virgin Islands. The Guam act was controversial,however,for authorizing federal auditing of the territory's accounts by the Interior Department—a practice that remained in place as of 2020.
Albert Bryan Jr. is an Virgin Islander politician serving since 2019 as the ninth governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
Tregenza A. Roach is an American politician,attorney,and former journalist. Since 2019,Roach has been serving as the 12th Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. Roach previously was a senator at the Legislature of the Virgin Islands from 2013 to 2019.
Harry Jheopart Capehart Sr. was an American lawyer,politician,and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Capehart served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates,representing McDowell County for three consecutive terms,from 1919 to 1925. He also served as an assessor,city councilperson,and city attorney for Keystone,West Virginia.
Carol Thomas-Jacobs (1968/1969) is a judge on the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court. She was the acting Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands in from January to April 2023.
The 35th Virgin Islands Legislature is the current meeting of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands. It convened in Charlotte Amalie on January 9,2023,during the first two years of Governor Albert Bryan’s second term.
The 2024 United States Virgin Islands general election took place on Tuesday,November 5,2024,to elect the non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,all 15 seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands,members of the Virgin Islands Board of Elections,Board of Education,and the 15 delegates to the Sixth Constitutional Convention.
Hubert L. Frederick is an American Virgin Islander politician. He is the member-elect for the St. Croix district of the Virgin Islands Legislature.
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- ↑ "Senator Diane T. Capehart". Virgin Islands Legislature . Retrieved September 30, 2024.
- ↑ "35th Legislature". Virgin Islands Legislature . Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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