Richard Joseph Hughes was an American lawyer,politician,and judge. A Democrat,he served as the 45th governor of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970,and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1973 to 1979. Hughes is the only person to have served New Jersey as both governor and chief justice. Hughes was also the first Roman Catholic governor in New Jersey's history.
Lee Irwin Fisher is an American attorney,politician,and academic. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 64th lieutenant governor of Ohio,with Governor Ted Strickland,from 2007 until 2011. He has served as Dean of Cleveland State University College of Law since 2017.
The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio,with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members,a chief justice and six associate justices,who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004,the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004,the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex of the Ohio Statehouse.
The Ohio Republican Party is the Ohio affiliate of the Republican Party. It was founded in Columbus,Ohio,in 1854. It is currently the state's favored party,controlling the majority of Ohio's U.S. House seats,one of its two U.S. Senate seats,the governorship,and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Richard Patrick DeWine is an American attorney,politician and jurist serving as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court since 2017. He is the son of former U.S. Senator and Ohio Attorney General and current Governor Mike DeWine.
Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by President George W. Bush since before his presidency.
Orsamus R. Cole was an American lawyer and judge. He served as the 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court,and,until 2013,was the longest-serving justice in the Court's history,with nearly 37 years on the high court. He also represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 31st Congress (1849–1850). His name is frequently misspelled as Orasmus.
Margaret Lee Workman is an American lawyer and a former justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Her 1988 election to the Supreme Court made her the first woman elected to statewide office in West Virginia and first female Justice on the Court.
The 1934 New York state election was held on November 6,1934,to elect the governor,the lieutenant governor,the state comptroller,the attorney general,a U.S. Senator,two U.S. Representatives-at-large,the chief judge and two associate judges of the New York Court of Appeals,as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969 with Chief Justice Earl Warren having announced his retirement from the Supreme Court of the United States the previous year. Nixon appointed Warren E. Burger to replace Earl Warren,and during his time in office appointed three other members of the Supreme Court:Associate Justices Harry Blackmun,Lewis F. Powell,and William Rehnquist. Nixon also nominated Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell for the vacancy that was ultimately filled by Blackmun,but the nominations were rejected by the United States Senate. Nixon's failed Supreme Court nominations were the first since Herbert Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was rejected by the Senate.
David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention,engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
William Edward Werner was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
The Ohio general elections,2010 were held on November 2,2010 throughout Ohio. Primary elections took place on May 4,2010.
Josiah Scott was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was in the Ohio House of Representatives,and was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1856–1872.
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.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
The Ohio general elections,2016 were held on November 8,2016 throughout Ohio. The close of registration for electors in the primary election was December 16,2015,and the primary election took place on March 15,2016.
The 2022 Ohio general elections took place on November 8,2022,throughout the US state of Ohio.
Edward Vollrath was an American attorney and military officer from Bucyrus,Ohio. A veteran of the Spanish–American War,Pancho Villa Expedition,World War I,and Occupation of the Rhineland,he was most notable for his command of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Cuba during the war with Spain and on the Mexican border during the Villa expedition,and his First World War command of the 82nd Infantry Brigade,a unit of the 41st Division.
