The 1954 United States Senate elections was a midterm election in the first term of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. The 32 Senate seats of Class 2 were contested in regular elections,and six special elections were held to fill vacancies. Eisenhower's Republican party lost a net of two seats to the Democratic opposition. This small change was just enough to give Democrats control of the chamber with the support of an Independent who agreed to caucus with them,he later officially joined the party in April 1955.
The 1922 United States Senate elections were elections that occurred in the middle of Republican President Warren G. Harding's term. The 32 seats of Class 1 were contested in regular elections,and special elections were held to fill vacancies. With the Republicans divided between conservative and progressive factions,the Democrats gained six net seats from the Republicans while the Farmer–Labor party gained one. The Republicans retained their Senate majority.
Marion Square is greenspace in downtown Charleston,South Carolina,spanning six and one half acres. The square was established as a parade ground for the state arsenal under construction on the north side of the square. It is best known as the former Citadel Green because The Citadel occupied the arsenal from 1843 until 1922,when the Citadel moved to the city's west side. Marion Square was named in honor of Francis Marion.
Burnet Rhett Maybank was a three-term US senator,the 99th governor of South Carolina,and mayor of Charleston,South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor,governor,and United States senator. During his tenure in the Senate,Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1,1954,from a heart attack,led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.
John E. Courson is a former American politician. He served as a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate,representing the 20th District from 1985 to 2018. He resigned after pleading guilty to a common law misconduct charge in office.
The 1942 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 3,1942 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Incumbent Senator Burnet R. Maybank defeated Eugene S. Blease in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election to win a six-year term.
John L. Scott Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the South Carolina Legislature from 1991 until his death. Scott was a small business owner in Columbia,South Carolina.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Kentucky:
Charles Albert Woods was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
The 1806–07 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1806 and 1807,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 3.
The 1802–03 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1802 and 1803,and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections,terms were up for the senators in Class 1.
Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4,2014,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Ira B. Jones was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court and a candidate for governor in 1912.
Eugene Blackburn Gary was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Ammiel J. Willard was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Albany,New York in 1822. He studied law under Willis Hall,the attorney-general of New York,before being made assistant counsel of New York City in 1848.
Daniel Edward Hydrick Sr. was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Orangeburg,South Carolina on August 6,1860,and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880. He began practicing law in Spartanburg,South Carolina and was twice elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and then twice to the South Carolina Senate. He resigned during his second term in the South Carolina Senate to become a state trial court judge. His term began on December 15,1905. He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected by the General Assembly to take the position left vacant when Ira B. Jones was elevated to the chief justice position,and he was commissioned on April 15,1909. He was reelected to a full term in 1918. He died on January 15,1921,in Washington,D.C.;he had been travelling from Baltimore,Maryland to Spartanburg,South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip.
George Williams Gage was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected on January 15,1914,to fill the position vacated by Judge Charles Albert Woods upon his becoming a federal judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Cameron Bruce Littlejohn was a chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He served as an associate justice on the same court from 1967 to 1984.
James Woodrow Lewis (1912–1999) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Tiffany Spann-Wilder is an attorney,former County Magistrate and American politician serving as a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
