The Bank of America Corporation is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte,North Carolina,with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank and Bank of America in 1998. It is the second-largest banking institution in the United States and the second-largest bank in the world by market capitalization,both after JPMorgan Chase. Bank of America is one of the Big Four banking institutions of the United States. It serves about 10 percent of all American bank deposits,in direct competition with JPMorgan Chase,Citigroup,and Wells Fargo. Its primary financial services revolve around commercial banking,wealth management,and investment banking.
Harold Trent Franks is an American businessman and former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure,Franks served as vice chairman of the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and chairman of the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution,Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Matthew James Salmon is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arizona from 1995 to 2001 and again from 2013 until 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he retired from office after representing Arizona's 5th congressional district. The district is based in Mesa and includes most of the East Valley;he previously represented Arizona's 1st congressional district. In 2002,he lost by less than 1% to Janet Napolitano in a highly competitive gubernatorial race. He regained a congressional seat in the 2012 election.
John Alexander Thain is an American financial executive and investment banker. He was president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs,and then CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Thain then became the last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch &Co. before its merger with Bank of America. He was designated to become president of global banking,securities,and wealth management at the newly combined company,but resigned on January 22,2009. Ken Lewis,CEO of Bank of America,reportedly forced Thain to step down after several controversies,such as the losses at Merrill Lynch which proved to be far larger than previously estimated,and the award of huge executive bonuses. Thain then was chairman and CEO of the CIT Group. He has been a board member of Uber since 2017.
Republicans Overseas (RO) is a political organization created in 2013 for United States citizens who are living outside of the United States. RO is recognized by the Republican National Committee (RNC),and by other affiliated groups,such as College Republicans. It operates in the majority of countries around the world where there are large numbers of United States citizen residents. Similar to political action committees (PAC) and Super Pacs;RO is a 527 political organization that operates as a corporation with specific interests of repealing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and of generally representing Republicans living overseas.
Earnest Stanley O'Neal is an American business executive who was formerly chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was criticized for his performance during his tenure as chief executive at Merrill Lynch,where he oversaw the deterioration of the firm's stability and capital position,which resulted in his ouster in September 2007,and the firm's eventual fire sale to Bank of America one year later. Prior to his tenure as chairman and CEO,Merrill Lynch had thrived as a stand-alone company since 1914.
Thunderbird School of Global Management is a global leadership,management,and business school at Arizona State University,a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It was founded in 1946 as an independent,private institution and acquired by Arizona State University in 2014. The school moved to ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus in 2018. The campus built a new $75 million building for the school in 2021.
The Arizona Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the US state of Arizona. Its headquarters are in Phoenix. The party currently controls six of Arizona's nine U.S. House seats,sixteen of thirty State Senate seats,thirty-one of sixty State House of Representatives seats,four of five seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission and three Statewide Executive Offices
The Maine Republican Party is an affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Maine. It was founded in Strong,Maine,on August 7,1854. The party currently does not control the governor's office or either chamber of the Maine Legislature,nor either of Maine's two U.S. House. The only federal elected office that the party controls is one of Maine's two U.S. Senate seats,currently held by Susan Collins.
Barbara McConnell Barrett is an American businesswoman,attorney and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of the Air Force from 2019 to 2021. She is also an instrument-rated pilot,and cattle and bison rancher.
James Patrick Gorman is an Australian-American businessman and financier. He has been executive chairman of Morgan Stanley since 2012,and was CEO of the firm from 2010 through 2023. Before becoming CEO,he was the co-president and co-head of strategic planning at the firm. Starting in January 2025,he will become chairman of The Walt Disney Company.
David Sheridan Schweikert is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Arizona's 1st congressional district since 2023. The district covers northeastern Maricopa County.
The 1994 United States elections were held on November 8,1994. The elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Bill Clinton's first term in office,and elected the members of 104th United States Congress. The elections have been described as the "Republican Revolution" because the Republican Party captured unified control of Congress for the first time since 1952. Republicans picked up eight seats in the Senate and won a net of 54 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans also picked up a net of ten governorships and took control of many state legislative chambers. This is the first midterm election since 1946 in which the Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress in a midterm election under a Democratic president.
Benjamin Eugene Quayle is an American lawyer and politician who is a former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party,he is the son of the 44th vice president of the United States,Dan Quayle.
Harold Eugene Ford Jr. is an American financial managing director,pundit,author,and former U.S. Congressman who served from 1997 to 2007 in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from Tennessee's 9th congressional district,centered in Memphis. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis,and is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr.,who held the same seat for 22 years. In 2006,Ford made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring Bill Frist. He was also the last chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
The 2018 United States elections were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018. These midterm elections occurred during Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump's first term. Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate,unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in what was widely characterized as a "blue wave" election as Democrats also gained governorships,other statewide offices,and state legislative chambers.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Arizona was held on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the State of Arizona,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,other elections to the U.S. Senate in other states and elections to the U.S. House of Representatives,as well as various state and local elections.
Chad Heywood is an Arizona political figure who served as the executive director of the Arizona Republican Party,a role that he held from 2013 to 2016. Heywood was nominated by the Arizona Capitol Times as the "Top Political Operative" in 2014 and 2015. He is currently a Partner at Camelback Strategy Group where he represents numerous campaigns and organizations in Arizona.
A special election for Arizona's 8th congressional district was held in 2018 subsequent to the resignation of Republican U.S. Representative Trent Franks. Governor Doug Ducey called a special primary election for Tuesday,February 27,2018,and a special general election for the balance of Franks' eighth term for Tuesday,April 24,2018.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Arizona.
