John Mathias Engler is an American politician,lawyer,businessman,and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Considered one of the country's top lobbyists,he is a member of the Republican Party.
George Wallace Jones was an American frontiersman,entrepreneur,attorney,and judge,was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was elected before the birth of the Republican Party,Jones served over ten years in the Senate,from December 7,1848 to March 3,1859. During the American Civil War,he was arrested by Federal authorities and briefly jailed on suspicion of having pro-Confederate sympathies.
The Territory of Iowa was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4,1838,until December 28,1846,when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Iowa. The remainder of the territory would have no organized territorial government until the Minnesota Territory was organized on March 3,1849.
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3,1836,until May 29,1848,when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmont was initially chosen as the capital of the territory. In 1837,the territorial legislature met in Burlington,just north of the Skunk River on the Mississippi,which became part of the Iowa Territory in 1838. In that year,1838,the territorial capital of Wisconsin was moved to Madison.
Terri Lynn Land is an American politician who served as the 41st Michigan Secretary of State from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party,Land was elected to the Republican National Committee in 2012. She was the Republican nominee for the 2014 United States Senate race in Michigan,losing in the general election to Democrat Gary Peters. Land currently serves on the Board of Governors of Wayne State University.
The 2002 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 5,2002,in the middle of President George W. Bush's first term,to elect U.S. Representatives to serve in the 108th United States Congress. This was the first congressional election using districts drawn up during the 2000 United States redistricting cycle on the basis of the 2000 census.
The 1994 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8,1994,to elect U.S. Representatives to serve in the 104th United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of President Bill Clinton's first term. In what was known as the Republican Revolution,a 54-seat swing in membership from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party resulted in the latter gaining a majority of seats in the House of Representatives for the first time since 1952. It was also the largest seat gain for the party since 1946,and the largest for either party since 1948,and characterized a political realignment in American politics.
The 1990 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 6,1990,to elect members to serve in the 102nd United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of President George H. W. Bush's term. As in most midterm elections,the president's Republican Party lost seats to the Democratic Party,slightly increasing the Democratic majority in the chamber. It was a rare instance,however,in which both major parties lost votes to third parties such as the Libertarian Party as well as independent candidates.
William Duncan Schuette is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd attorney general of Michigan from 2011 to 2019. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Senate in 1990 and for Governor of Michigan in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
Thomas Cooper Evans was a three-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district. First elected to Congress in a close race amidst a Republican landslide,in a district that became less Republican through reapportionment,Evans defied expectations by winning re-election by increasingly large margins.
Orrin Williams Robinson was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan. He ran a successful logging operation in the Upper Peninsula and was elected to serve in both houses of the Michigan Legislature and for two terms as the 31st lieutenant governor of Michigan,from 1899 to 1903 under Governors Hazen S. Pingree and Aaron T. Bliss.
Robert Lucas was the 12th governor of Ohio,serving from 1832 to 1836. He also served as the first governor of the Iowa Territory from 1838 to 1841.
From January 29 to June 4,1996,voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1996 United States presidential election. Senator Bob Dole of Kansas,the former Senate majority leader,was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1996 Republican National Convention held from August 12 to 15,1996,in San Diego,California. Dole resigned from the Senate in June 1996 once he became the presumptive nominee to concentrate on his presidential campaign. He chose Jack Kemp as his running mate.
In the United States,black conservatism is a political and social movement rooted in African-American communities that aligns largely with the American conservative movement,including the Christian right. Black conservatism emphasizes social conservatism,traditionalism,patriotism,capitalism and free markets. What characterizes a 'black conservative' has changed over time,and proponents do not necessarily share the same political philosophy.
Harrison Earl Spangler was a politician from the U. S. state of Iowa.
The 1994 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994,to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the state of Michigan. Incumbent Governor John Engler,a member of the Republican Party,was re-elected over Democratic Party nominee and Congressman Howard Wolpe. The voter turnout was 45.5%.
The 1994 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1994. The incumbent governor,Bob Casey,Sr. (Democrat),was barred from seeking a third term by the state constitution. The Republican Party nominated Congressman Tom Ridge,while the Democrats nominated Mark Singel,Casey's lieutenant governor. Ridge went on to win the race with 45% of the vote. Singel finished with 39%,and Constitution Party candidate Peg Luksik finished third,garnering 12% of the vote.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Michigan,concurrently with the election of the governor of Michigan,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Jeb Bush,the 43rd Governor of Florida,was formally launched on June 14,2015,coming six months after announcing the formal exploration of a candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination for the President of the United States on December 16,2014,and the formation of the Right to Rise PAC. On February 20,2016,Bush announced his intention to drop out of the presidential race following the South Carolina primary. Had Bush been elected,he would have been the first president from Florida and the first sibling of a U.S. president to win the presidency himself.
Capital punishment has been abolished in Iowa since 1965. Forty-five men were executed by hanging in Iowa between 1834 and 1963 for crimes including murder,rape,and robbery.
