Mary Marsha Blackburn is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of the Republican Party,Blackburn was a state senator from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019,during which time the National Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.
Corrine Brown is an American former politician and felon who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1993 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. After a court-ordered redistricting significantly changed her district and a federal felony conviction for corruption,Brown was defeated in the 2016 Democratic primary by Al Lawson,who went on to win Brown's former seat.
Robert Menendez is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey,a seat he has held since 2006. A member of the Democratic Party and the Cuban–American lobby,he was first appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Jon Corzine,and chaired the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2013 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. On July 16,2024,he was convicted on all 16 counts in a political corruption case,following which he announced his intention to resign from the Senate on August 20,2024.
Operation Tennessee Waltz was a sting operation set up by federal and state law enforcement agents,including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). The operation led to the arrest of seven Tennessee state lawmakers and two men identified as "bagmen" in the indictment on the morning of May 26,2005,on bribery charges. The FBI and TBI followed these arrests with an additional arrest of two county commissioners,one from Hamilton County,and the other a member of the prominent Hooks family of Memphis. Investigators also arrested a former county administrator.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 7,2006. Incumbent Republican Senator Bill Frist,the Majority Leader,retired after two terms in office. The open seat was won by Republican nominee Bob Corker,who defeated Democratic nominee Harold Ford Jr.
Ophelia Ford is a former member of the Tennessee Senate. She is the younger sister of former state senator John Ford and former Congressman Harold Ford,Sr.,and the aunt of former Congressman Harold Ford,Jr. She represented Senate District 29,which covers South Memphis and North Memphis.
Kathryn Inez Bowers was an American Democratic politician and member of the Tennessee General Assembly who left office after being implicated in the Tennessee Waltz corruption scandal.
Jerry Wayne Cooper was a Tennessee Democratic politician and a former member of the Tennessee Senate for the 14th district,which encompasses Franklin,Bledsoe,Coffee,Grundy,Sequatchie,Van Buren,and Warren counties. On August 22,2006,Cooper was indicted by a federal grand jury on three felony counts:bank fraud,mail fraud,and conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud. He was acquitted of those charges,but in November 2007 he was fined $120,000 by the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance for state election finance violations and on December 7,2007,he resigned his State Senate seat.
Efrain Gonzalez Jr. is an American politician and convicted felon who served as a member of the New York State Senate from 1990 to 2008.
Carlos "Charlie" Uresti is an American attorney and Democratic politician from San Antonio,Texas. From November 2006 until his resignation in June 2018,he served as a member of the Texas State Senate representing Senate District 19,one of the largest geographical senatorial districts in the Texas Senate,covering a third of the Texas-Mexico border. Prior to his election to the Texas State Senate,he represented the 118th district in the Texas House of Representatives from January 1997 until November 2006.
Nathaniel T. Oaks is an American politician from Baltimore City,Maryland. He was a longtime member of the Maryland General Assembly,serving as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1983 to 1989 and again from 1995 to February 2017,when he resigned to take a seat in the Maryland State Senate. Oaks remained in the state Senate until March 29,2018,when he resigned from office on the same day he pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges.
Brian Kelsey is an American politician and former member of the Tennessee State Senate. A member of the Republican party,he was elected to represent District 31,which encompassed the following parts of Shelby County:Cordova,East Memphis,and Germantown.
Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. is an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania Senate where he represented the 1st District from 2009 until November 30,2020. Farnese was the Democratic ward leader of the 8th ward in Philadelphia.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 3,2020,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate. The 2020 U.S. presidential election and elections to the U.S. House of Representatives were also held,as well as the State Senate and State House elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Lamar Alexander announced that he would not run for re-election on December 17,2018. The former United States Ambassador to Japan,Bill Hagerty won the open seat by a large margin defeating his Democratic opponent Marquita Bradshaw.
Brian A. Benjamin is an American politician and businessman who was the lieutenant governor of New York from September 2021 until his resignation on April 12,2022. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the 30th district in the New York State Senate from 2017 to 2021.
Dean A. Tran is an American politician from Fitchburg,Massachusetts,who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2017 in a special election. He represented the Worcester and Middlesex District,and is a Republican. Before his election to the Massachusetts Senate,Tran was a member of the Fitchburg City Council.
London Lamar is an American politician. ADemocratic Party member,she serves in the Tennessee Senate representing district 33 since 2022. She was previously a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022 representing District 91. During her time there,she was the youngest Tennessee State Representative in office. She was appointed to the Tennessee Senate in March 2022 by the Shelby County Commission after fellow Democrat Katrina Robinson was expelled due to her indictment on charges of wire fraud. Lamar was sworn in on March 8,2022,and effectively resigned her house seat.
Marquita Bradshaw is an American environmentalist,activist,and political candidate. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee,the first African American woman to win a major political party nomination in any statewide race in Tennessee. She lost the general election to Republican Bill Hagerty. She is now the executive director of the environmental and political organization Sowing Justice.
The 2022 Tennessee State Senate election was held on November 8,2022,to elect 17 of the 33 seats for the Tennessee's State Senate. The elections coincided with the Governor,U.S. House,and State House elections. The primary elections were held on August 4,2022.
Andre Bernard Mathis is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
