The president pro tempore of the United States Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate,after the vice president. According to Article One,Section Three of the United States Constitution,the vice president of the United States is the president of the Senate,and the Senate must choose a president pro tempore to act in the vice president's absence.
The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly of the U.S. state of Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. Republicans have had a majority in the chamber since 2005. The current House Speaker is Jon G. Burns.
Gene G. Chandler is a Republican politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Residing in Bartlett,Chandler represented Carroll County District 1 in the New Hampshire House of Representatives for decades until his defeat in 2018.
Jan Slaughter Jones is an American politician in Georgia. A Republican,she has been a member of the Georgia House of Representatives since 2003,and was acting Speaker of the House from November 2022 to January 2023 following the death of former Speaker David Ralston. Jones serves as Speaker pro tempore of the House,a position she has held continuously since 2010 with the exception of her brief stint as acting Speaker. She is the state representative for Georgia's 47th House district,which covers some of the northern Atlanta suburbs,including parts of Milton,Roswell,Alpharetta,Mountain Park,and unincorporated Cherokee County.
Terie Norelli is a Democratic former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,serving the Rockingham 16th District and later 26th District from 1996 through 2014. She served as Speaker of the House for six years,from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014. When Republicans regained control of the New Hampshire House in 2010,she became the Democratic minority leader. Norelli was the first Democratic speaker of the New Hampshire House in 84 years. When the Democrats regained control of the New Hampshire House in 2012,she was elected to the role of speaker again.
The president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate presides over the Senate of the U.S. state of Vermont in the absence of the lieutenant governor. The president pro tempore also sets the policy priorities and legislative agenda for the Senate.
Stacie-Marie Laughton is an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2020 to 2022,representing District 31 in Hillsborough County. A member of the Democratic Party,she had previously been elected to the chamber in the 2012 elections to represent Ward 4 in Nashua,but resigned her position as Representative-elect due to the surfacing of a past criminal conviction. She was also a selectwoman in the ward.
Christopher Thomas Sununu is an American politician and engineer who has served since 2017 as the 82nd governor of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party,Sununu was on the New Hampshire Executive Council from 2011 to 2017.
Marilinda Joy Garcia is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Republican,she served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives,representing the Rockingham 8th district from 2012 to 2014. She previously represented the Rockingham 4th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2012. A harpist,Garcia is also a music teacher.
Alfred P. Baldasaro is a Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire. He is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Baldasaro lives in Londonderry and represents District 5 in Rockingham County. He is known for his strongly conservative views and provocative remarks,including one in 2016 where he called for Hillary Clinton to be "put in the firing line and shot" for which he was widely rebuked and investigated by the Secret Service.
Steven D. Smith is an American politician of the Republican party. He is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives representing Sullivan County District 11.
The 2020 United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held on November 3,2020,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New Hampshire,concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen won reelection to a third term after comfortably defeating Republican nominee Bryant Messner by 15.6 points and sweeping every single county in the state. This marked the first Senate election since 1972 in which the Democrat carried Belknap County.
Albert "Max" Abramson is an American politician who most recently served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,representing Rockingham District 37 from 2018 to 2022. He previously represented the same district from 2014 to 2016. He ran for the nomination of the Libertarian Party for the 2020 presidential election,but dropped out on March 3,2020.
Sherman Adams Packard is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. He is the speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,sitting as a Republican from the Rockingham 5 district,having been first elected in 1990.
Richard W. Hinch was an American politician. A Republican,he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2008 until his death in 2020. He was speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for one week before he died from COVID-19.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 8,2022,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of New Hampshire,one from each of the state's two congressional districts.
Tim Baxter is an American politician who served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Rockingham 20 district. Elected in November 2020,he assumed office on December 2,2020.
Melissa Blasek is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. She was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,sitting as a Republican from the Hillsborough-21 multi-member district from 2020 to 2022.
William Boyd III is an American politician who has served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2021,representing Hillsborough County's 21st district,which contains the town of Merrimack. A member of the Republican Party,Boyd ran in an April 2021 special election to succeed Dick Hinch,who died of COVID-19 in December 2020. Boyd defeated the Democratic nominee,former state representative Wendy E.N. Thomas,by a margin of 2,531 votes to 2,144. Boyd's campaign was assisted by Mike Pompeo,a former United States secretary of state,and Tom Cotton,a United States senator from Arkansas.
Wendy E. N. Thomas is an American microbiologist and politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2018 until 2020,representing Hillsborough County's 21st district,which contains the town of Merrimack. In 2018,Thomas,a local activist and member of the Democratic Party,successfully ran for the New Hampshire House of Representatives,receiving 6.5% of the vote in the multi-member constituency,placing 7th out of the 8 winning candidates. In 2020,Thomas ran for re-election in the 21st district;however,she was defeated in the general election,receiving 6.2% of the vote and placing 10th.
