James Monroe was an American statesman,lawyer,diplomat,and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825,a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty. His presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings,concluding the First Party System era of American politics. He issued the Monroe Doctrine,a policy of limiting European colonialism in the Americas. Monroe previously served as governor of Virginia,a member of the United States Senate,U.S. ambassador to France and Britain,the seventh secretary of state,and the eighth secretary of war.
The Republican Party,retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party,and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names,was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism,republicanism,individual liberty,equal rights,decentralization,free markets,free trade,agrarianism,and sympathy with the French Revolution. The party became increasingly dominant after the 1800 elections as the opposing Federalist Party collapsed.
The 1796 United States presidential election was the third quadrennial presidential election of the United States. It was held from Friday,November 4 to Wednesday,December 7,1796. It was the first contested American presidential election,the first presidential election in which political parties played a dominant role,and the only presidential election in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets. Incumbent vice president John Adams of the Federalist Party defeated former secretary of state Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party.
Thomas Joseph Tauke is an American politician,lawyer,and corporate executive from Iowa. He is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives,serving six terms from 1979 to 1991.
Felix Edward Hébert was an American journalist and politician from Louisiana. He represented the New Orleans-based 1st congressional district as a Democrat for 18 consecutive terms,from 1941 until his retirement in 1977. He remains Louisiana's longest-serving U.S. representative.
James Glenn Beall was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party,he served as a U.S. Representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. Senator (1953–1965) from Maryland.
Thomas Fisher Railsback was an American politician and lawyer who served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983 for Illinois's 19th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party,he sat on the House Judiciary Committee,which in 1974,voted to refer articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon to the full House.
Gilbert Gude was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district from 1967 to 1977. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Elizabeth Johnston Patterson was an American politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,she was a three-term member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993.
James Andrew Courter is an American Republican Party politician and attorney. He represented parts of northwestern New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991. In 1989,he unsuccessfully ran for Governor of New Jersey.
Thomas Gilbert Loeffler is an American politician and Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from central Texas. He served four terms from 1979 to 1987.
Cassius Clay Dowell was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to 1935,and again from 1937 until his death in 1940,with the interregnum caused by an unsuccessful campaign for reelection in 1934.
William Joseph Scherle was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Southwestern Iowa from 1967 to 1975. He was a member of the Republican Party.
United States President Barack Obama,a member of the Democratic Party,was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in the 2008 election. Although the vast majority of Obama's support came from liberal constituencies,some conservatives identified in him shared priorities or other positive attributes. As in any election,voters can and sometimes do cross party lines to vote for the other party's nominee. Republican and conservative Obama supporters were often referred to as "Obama Republicans","Obamacans" or "Obamacons".
The 2006 congressional elections in Minnesota were held on November 7,2006 to determine who would represent the state of Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives.
The 2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 3,2020,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of North Carolina,concurrently with the 2020 United States presidential election 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. North Carolina was one of just five states holding presidential,gubernatorial,and senatorial elections concurrently in 2020. On March 3,2020,Republican incumbent Thom Tillis and Democratic former state senator Cal Cunningham won their respective primaries.
The 1977 United States House of Representatives special election in Minnesota's 7th congressional district was held on February 22,1977 to select the successor to Bob Bergland (DFL) who resigned to accept appointment as Secretary of Agriculture under the Carter Administration. Independent-Republican candidate Arlan Stangeland defeated the DFL favorite,Mike Sullivan,in an upset landslide.
