Thomas Richard Carper is an American politician and former military officer serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware,having held the seat since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,Carper served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993 and was the 71st governor of Delaware from 1993 to 2001.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is an American attorney,television correspondent,politician,diplomat,and was the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 2017 until 2021. A member of the Republican Party,she was a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 to 2013.
Shelley Wellons Moore Capito is an American politician and retired educator serving in her second term as the junior United States senator from West Virginia,a post she has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,Capito served seven terms as the U.S. representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2015. The daughter of three-term West Virginia governor Arch Alfred Moore Jr.,she is the dean of West Virginia's congressional delegation.
Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving his 22nd term as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district. Though it has taken various forms,his district has always been situated in central New Jersey. Currently,the district contains parts of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Smith is a member of the Republican Party,having switched from the Democratic Party in 1978.
Joseph Simon Donnelly Sr. is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and as a U.S. Senator from 2013 to 2019. A Democrat from Indiana,he later served as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 2022 to 2024 under President Joe Biden.
Adelbert Carl "Del" Marsh is a former Republican member of the Alabama Senate,who represented the 12th District from 1998 until 2022. He defeated Democratic challenger Judge Wallace Wyatt in the 2010 midterm elections. The next day,he was chosen as President pro tempore of the Alabama State Senate by his colleagues. Since the succession of Kay Ivey to the position of Governor of Alabama on April 10,2017,until January 14,2019,the office of lieutenant governor was vacant.
Dennis K. Baxley is a state legislator in Florida who has served in the Florida Senate since 2016. A Republican,he represents the 12th district including Sumter County and parts of Lake County and Marion County in Central Florida. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives,representing parts of Marion County from 2000 to 2007 and again from 2010 until his election to the Senate in 2016. He served on the Belleview City Commission and as its mayor.
Merika Coleman is a British-American politician who is a member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 19th district since 2022. She previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives,representing its 57th district from 2002 to 2022.
Kay Ellen Ivey is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama,serving since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat,Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38th Alabama state treasurer from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th lieutenant governor of Alabama from 2011 to 2017.
Gerald Edward Connolly is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district,first elected in 2008. The district is anchored in Fairfax County,an affluent suburban county west of Washington,D.C. It includes all of Fairfax City and part of Prince William County. Connolly is a Democrat.
Daniel Heath Boman is an American politician who served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives,representing the 16th district from 2011 to 2015. Boman was elected as a Republican,but switched to the Democratic Party four months into his tenure. He was defeated by Republican Kyle South in November 2014. Since then,Boman has rejoined the Republican Party.
Douglas Allen Collins is an American lawyer and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2021.
A six-week abortion ban,also called a "fetal heartbeat bill" by proponents,is a law in the United States which makes abortion illegal as early as six weeks gestational age,which is when proponents claim that a "fetal heartbeat" can be detected. Medical and reproductive health experts,including the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,say that the reference to a fetal heartbeat is medically inaccurate and misleading,for a conceptus is not called a fetus until eight weeks after fertilization,as well as that at four weeks after fertilization,the embryo has no heart,only a group of cells which will become a heart. Medical professionals advise that a true fetal heartbeat cannot be detected until around 17 to 20 weeks of gestation when the chambers of the heart have become sufficiently developed.
Phillip W. Williams Jr. is an American politician,radio show host and attorney from the state of Alabama. A member of the Republican Party,Williams served in the Alabama Senate from 2010 until 2018,representing the 10th district,encompassing Etowah County and parts of Cherokee County. Since leaving the state legislature,Williams has served as a policy director for the Alabama Policy Institute and hosts a conservative radio program,Rightside Radio.
Robert Onder Jr. is an American politician and physician from the state of Missouri. A Republican,he was a member of the Missouri Senate from 2015 to 2022,serving the 2nd District in the St. Charles area. He was elected Assistant Majority Floor Leader in 2015. Onder previously was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2007 to 2008.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Alabama on November 6,2018. All Alabama executive officers were up for election along with all of Alabama's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections took place on June 5,2018,for both major parties.
Gordon Douglas Jones is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Jones was previously the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. He is the most recent Democrat to win and/or hold statewide office in Alabama.
The Human Life Protection Act,also known as House Bill 314 and the Alabama abortion ban,is an Alabama statute enacted on May 15,2019,that imposes a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Originally set to go into effect in November 2019,a legal challenge against the bill delayed implementation until 2022. The bill was passed in both chambers of the Alabama Legislature in a party-line vote and signed by Republican governor Kay Ivey. Under the Human Life Protection Act,a doctor who performs a banned abortion in the state of Alabama is guilty of a Class A felony,and could be sentenced to life imprisonment. Several proposed amendments that would have allowed abortions in cases of rape and incest were rejected.
Jerry Sexton is a retired American politician who served as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Sexton represented Tennessee House District 35,an area in East Tennessee consisting of Grainger,Claiborne,and part of Union counties from 2015 until his retirement following redistricting in 2023. Sexton would be succeeded by several representatives,including Rick Eldridge,Gary Hicks,and Dennis Powers,for Grainger,Claiborne,and Union counties respectively following the dissolution of District 35.
Wesley Harrison Allen is an American politician and former probate judge who is the incumbent Secretary of State of Alabama,serving since 2023. He was previously a member of the Alabama House of Representatives,representing the 89th district from 2018 to 2022,and was elected as Secretary of State in 2022.
