The California State Legislature is a bicameral state legislature consisting of a lower house,the California State Assembly,with 80 members;and an upper house,the California State Senate,with 40 members. Both houses of the Legislature convene at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The California state legislature is one of just ten full-time state legislatures in the United States. The houses are distinguished by the colors of the carpet and trim of each house. The Senate is distinguished by the color red and the Assembly by the color green,inspired by the House of Lords and House of Commons respectively.
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no term limits. The House meets at the State Capitol in Austin.
The Tennessee General Assembly (TNGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is a part-time bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Speaker of the Senate carries the additional title and office of Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee. In addition to passing a budget for state government plus other legislation,the General Assembly appoints three state officers specified by the state constitution. It is also the initiating body in any process to amend the state's constitution.
Bernard F. Kenny Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician,who represented the 33rd Legislative District in the New Jersey State Senate from 1993 to 2008,after serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1988 to 1993. He served for one day at the end of his tenure in the Senate as President of the Senate.
Robert Eugene Littell was an American Republican Party politician who served as a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1990 to 2008. He represented the 15th Legislative District until 1982 and the 24th Legislative District thereafter. Before entering the Senate he served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1968 to 1990 and the Franklin Borough Council from 1963 to 1965. He was a Delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention.
Erik Edmund Poulsen is the former Washington State Senator and Washington State Representative from Washington's 34th Legislative District,a district that includes West Seattle,Vashon Island,and Burien. Before getting elected,he served on the staff of Les Aspin,former Member of Congress and U.S. Defense Secretary,and Wisconsin Governor Tony Earl.
Mark George Ricks was an American Republican politician from Idaho. He served as the 40th lieutenant governor of Idaho from June 2006 to January 2007.
Jason Glennon Crowell is a former state senator from the U.S. state of Missouri who served two terms in the Missouri Senate. He succeeded then-Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder. Crowell represents Missouri's 27th Senatorial District,which consists of Bollinger,Cape Girardeau,Madison,Mississippi,Perry,and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Satveer Singh Chaudhary is an American criminal defense and immigration lawyer. He is also a politician and a former member of the Minnesota State Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives serving from 1996 to 2010. During his fourteen-year tenure,Chaudhary represented portions of Anoka and Ramsey counties in the northern Minneapolis and St Paul metropolitan area. The Senate District at the time of his departure from politics was known as Senate District 50. However,Chaudhary also represented the area in the Minnesota House from 1997-2000 as District 52A;and in the Senate from 2001 to 2002 as Senate District 52. While in office,Chaudhary served as a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party,was the first Asian American legislator in Minnesota history. He was also the first South Asian senator in American history and for a time was the highest ranking political official of South Asian descent,as well as one of the youngest senators in that state's history.
David Ellis Cogdill Sr. was an American politician who served in the California State Legislature. He served in the California State Senate from the 14th district for one term from 2006 to 2010 and in the California State Assembly from 2000 to 2006. He was the Republican Minority Leader in the State Senate from 2008 to 2009.
Sylvia Bravo Larsen is a New Hampshire politician who was a Democratic member of the New Hampshire Senate and its longest serving Democratic female leader. She represented New Hampshire's 15th State Senate District for 20 years,from 1994 through 2014. Larsen served as Senate President from 2006 to 2010. Between 2008 and 2010,Larsen led the nation's first female majority legislative body.
Kay Patterson is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate,representing the 19th District from 1985 to his retirement in 2008. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1975 through 1985.
John P. Morse is an American former politician who was a state senator in the Colorado Senate from 2007 to 2013,serving as president of the senate in 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Morse represented Senate District 11,which encompasses Manitou Springs,Colorado,and eastern Colorado Springs. On April 17,2009,he was selected to become Colorado's next Senate Majority Leader,following the resignation of Senate President Peter Groff and the promotion of previous Majority Leader Brandon Shaffer. On September 10,2013,Morse was recalled from office as a reaction to his involvement in passing gun control laws. He was the first legislator to be successfully recalled in the state's history.
Michael S. Meyer von Bremen,is an attorney and Democratic politician from the state of Georgia,United States. He resides in Albany,Georgia.
Lester George Jackson III is an American politician,educator,and dentist. He is a former state senator from Chatham County,Georgia. He was the 2009 presidential appointee to the Democratic National Committee,becoming the first person from the coastal region of Georgia to serve in this capacity in over 19 years.
John F. Keenan is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the Norfolk and Plymouth district.
Katrina Frye Shealy is an American politician,and a member of the South Carolina State Senate. She is a Republican but was elected as a petition candidate from District 23 in Lexington County. At the time of her election in 2012,she was the only woman in the South Carolina Senate but as of May 2023,she is now one of six women currently serving in the South Carolina State Senate.
Angela Z. Monson is an American politician from Oklahoma who served in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives,representing District 99 from 1990–1993,as well as the Oklahoma Senate,representing District 48 from 1993–2005. In 2003,she became the first African American woman assistant majority floor leader in the Oklahoma legislature. Monson defeated incumbent Kirk Humphreys,a former Oklahoma City mayor,for the school board chairman's position in 2009,serving until 2013.
Greg M. Kirk was an American politician from Americus,Georgia. He was a member of the Georgia State Senate from the 13th District,representing the Georgian counties of Crisp,Dodge,Dooly,Lee,Tift,Turner,Worth and parts of Sumter and Wilcox from 2014 until his death in 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Ken Yager is a Republican politician who is currently serving as a State Senator in Tennessee,for District 12. Yager was first elected to this position in 2008 and represents the people in the counties of District 12,which are Campbell,Clay,Fentress,Macon,Morgan,Overton,Pickett,Roane,and Scott.
