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Nebraska is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north;Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast,both across the Missouri River;Kansas to the south;Colorado to the southwest;and Wyoming to the west. Nebraska is the 16th-largest state by land area,with just over 77,220 square miles (200,000 km2). With a population of over 1.9 million,it is the 38th-most populous state and the eighth-least densely populated. Its capital is Lincoln,and its most populous city is Omaha,which is on the Missouri River. Nebraska was admitted into the United States in 1867,two years after the end of the American Civil War. The Nebraska Legislature is unlike any other American legislature in that it is unicameral,and its members are elected without any official reference to political party affiliation. Nebraska is one of only two states that divide electoral college votes by district,and is not winner-take-all.
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,also called Pine Ridge Agency,is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota,with a small portion of it extending into Nebraska. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation,Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2,1889,25 Stat. 888. in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. It consists of 3,468.85 sq mi (8,984 km2) of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States.
Gladys Shields Pyle was an American educator and national record setting female politician during the first score of years post-ratification of Women's Suffrage Amendment to the U. S. Constitution,who set numerous national and state partisan electoral records before the age of 50,including at least a dozen national records related to her 1938 U. S. Senate election. Her most significant national electoral records are:
- First female nationally to enter the U S Senate through election (1938) and first to do so in her own right at the age of 48. She ran 5.6% ahead of the second highest vote getter for any statewide office in her state in that election.
- First female nationally to run for both governor and U.S. Senate and first to do so in her own right.
- First female nationally to be elected to both a state constitutional legislative office (1922) and a state constitutional executive office (1926) in any state and first to do so in her own right. Only female nationally to be both the first elected to a state constitutional legislative office and the first to be elected to a state constitutional executive office in any state.
- First female nationally to receive more votes cast than had been received by any other statewide candidate since statehood in any state (1928).
- Second female nationally to receive both the highest percentage of the vote received of all statewide candidates and most total raw votes received of all statewide candidates in a general election in any state (1928) and first female to do so since ratification of the Suffrage Amendment in any state.
Leo Patrick Engel was an American politician from the state of Nebraska. A resident of South Sioux City,Engel served four terms in the Nebraska Legislature,from 1993 to 2009.
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Charles William Fulton was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio,he grew up in Iowa and Nebraska before settling in Astoria,Oregon. A Republican,he served in the Oregon State Senate,including time as President of the Senate,before he was elected as United States Senator from Oregon.
Amanda McGill Johnson is a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. From 2007 to 2015,she represented a Lincoln district in the Nebraska Legislature. She has served on the Millard Public Schools Board of Education since 2017. In 2020,she published her first children's book Unicameral and You:Collaborating for the Common Good in Nebraska's Capitol.
John Fitch Kinney was a prominent American attorney,judge,and Democratic politician. He served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa,twice as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah and one term as the Territory of Utah's Delegate in the House of Representatives of the 38th Congress.
Jeremiah J. Nordquist is a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Nordquist represented an Omaha district in the Nebraska Legislature from 2009 to 2015. He served in the Unicameral as a member of the Democratic Party,but is now a registered Non-Partisan.
The Nebraska Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The Legislature meets at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln. With 49 members,known as "senators",the Nebraska Legislature is the smallest U.S. state legislature. A total of 25 members is required for a majority;however,in order to overcome a filibuster,a two-thirds vote of all members is required,which takes 33 votes.
Dave Bloomfield is an American politician from Hoskins,Nebraska,who was a state senator in the Nebraska Legislature.
The 1904 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1904. Incumbent Republican Governor Charles N. Herreid declined to run for re-election to a third term. Clark County State's Attorney Samuel H. Elrod won the Republican nomination to run as Herreid's successor,and he faced Democratic nominee Louis N. Crill,the former president of the state Senate,and former U.S. Congressman Freeman Knowles,the Socialist nominee. For the first time since 1894,the Democratic and Populist Parties nominated separate candidates. Ultimately,the split in the two parties did not prove dispositive;Elrod defeated Crill and the other candidates in a landslide.
Adam Morfeld is an American politician from the state of Nebraska. In 2014,he was elected to the Nebraska Legislature,representing a district in the city of Lincoln. He is also the executive director and founder of a nonprofit organization,Civic Nebraska. Morfeld is a member of the Democratic Party.
Anthony Vargas is an American politician and former educator serving as a member of the Nebraska Legislature. Vargas represents the 7th district,which covers all of downtown Omaha and much of southeastern Omaha.
Michael HilgersSr. is an American businessman,lawyer and politician who is the Nebraska Attorney General. He previously served as a Republican member of the Nebraska Legislature,representing the 21st district from 2017 to 2023. Hilgers was the speaker of the Nebraska Legislature from 2021 to 2023.
Tom Briese is an American politician who has served as Nebraska State Treasurer since 2023. He previously served in the Nebraska Legislature,representing the 41st district from 2017 to 2023.
The 1930 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1930. Incumbent Democratic Governor William J. Bulow declined to run for re-election to a third term,instead opting to successfully run for the U.S. Senate. The Republican nomination was hard-fought and the primary was crowded;because no candidate received 35% of the vote,state law required that the nomination be decided at a state party convention. There,former State Senator Warren Green,the last-place finisher in the primary,defeated Secretary of State Gladys Pyle,the plurality winner. In the general election,Green faced D. A. McCullough,the state's Rural Credits Commissioner and the Democratic nominee. Despite Bulow's success in the preceding two elections,Green defeated McCullough by a decisive margin—even as Bulow himself was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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Dave Murman is an American politician serving as a member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 38th district. Elected in November 2018,he assumed office on January 9,2019.
References
- "Nebraska Unicameral Legislature". Sen. Charlie Janssen. Retrieved February 28, 2009.
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