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The 1836 United States presidential election was the 13th quadrennial presidential election,held from Thursday,November 3 to Wednesday,December 7,1836. In the third consecutive election victory for the Democratic Party,incumbent Vice President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party.
James Strom Thurmond Sr. was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Before his 48 years as a senator,he served as the 103rd governor of South Carolina from 1947 to 1951. Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party until 1964,when due to his opposition to civil rights,he joined the Republican Party. He had earlier run for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate in opposition to Democrat Harry Truman,receiving over a million votes and winning four states,and endorsed Republican Dwight Eisenhower for president in the 1950s.
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The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly,the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States presidential elections.
William Smith was an American politician from the state of South Carolina. He served two terms as a Senator in the United States Senate,the first from 1816 to 1823 and the second from 1826 to 1831. During his life Smith was one of the most prominent political leaders in the state of South Carolina. He formed an intense rivalry with John C. Calhoun,arguing against Calhoun's nationalist views,and advocating for states' rights.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is a partial list of notable African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900. Dates listed are the year that a term states or the range of years served if multiple terms.
The South Carolina Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is headquartered in Columbia,South Carolina.
Benjamin Franklin Perry was the 72nd Governor of South Carolina,appointed by U.S. President Andrew Johnson in 1865 after the end of the American Civil War.
The 2008 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held on November 4,2008. Primary elections were held on June 3,2008. Incumbent Senator Tim Johnson won re-election to a third term. As of 2024,this election alongside the simultaneous House race is the last time a Democrat won a statewide election in South Dakota. This is the last time that a Senate candidate and a presidential candidate of different political parties simultaneously won South Dakota.
Kevin L. Bryant is an American politician,pharmacist,and businessman. A member of the Republican Party,Bryant served as the 92nd Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from January 25,2017 to January 9,2019,after serving in the South Carolina Senate from 2005 to 2017. He lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2018 to Governor Henry McMaster.
The 1992 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 3,1992. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings won reelection to his sixth term. Apart from Hollings's first election to the Senate in 1966,this was the closest election of Hollings's Senate career. This is the last time that a Senate candidate was voted for and was elected to the United States Senate in South Carolina at the same time that a presidential candidate of a different political party was voted for in South Carolina and had won South Carolina.
The National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM) was incorporated in 1974 and was originally organized as the Southern Conference of Black Mayors (SCBM) forty years ago. The thirteen mayors who founded the group were elected after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and held its first meeting in Santee,South Carolina.
The 1836 United States elections elected the members of the 25th United States Congress. The election saw the emergence of the Whig Party,which succeeded the National Republican Party in the Second Party System as the primary opposition to the Democratic Party. The Whigs chose their name in symbolic defiance to the leader of the Democratic Party,"King" Andrew Jackson,and supported a national bank and the American System. Despite the emergence of the Whigs as a durable political party,Democrats retained the presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress.
The 1866 United States elections occurred in the middle of National Union/Democratic President Andrew Johnson's term,during the Third Party System and Reconstruction. Johnson had become president on April 15,1865,upon the death of his predecessor,Abraham Lincoln. Members of the 40th United States Congress were chosen in this election. As this was the first election after the Civil War,many ex-Confederates were barred from voting,and several Southern states did not take part in the election. Delegations from Arkansas,Florida,Alabama,North Carolina,Louisiana,and South Carolina were re-admitted during the 40th Congress.
The 118th United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened in Washington,D.C.,on January 3,2023,and will end on January 3,2025,during the third and fourth years of President Joe Biden's term in office.
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JA Moore is an American politician. He is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 15th District,serving since 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The 2020 South Carolina State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. South Carolina voters elected state senators in all 46 senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the South Carolina Senate,with all of the seats up for election each cycle. The primary elections on June 9,2020,determined which candidates appeared on the November 3,2020,general election ballot.
Deon T. Tedder is an American attorney and politician. He is a member of the Democratic party.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections will be held on November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections,to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states,as well as 6 non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories to the United States House of Representatives. Special elections have also been held on various dates in 2024. Numerous other federal,state,and local elections,including the U.S. presidential election and elections to the Senate,will also be held on this date. The winners of this election will serve in the 119th United States Congress,with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2020 United States census.
