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 House Republican Conference is the party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. It hosts meetings,and is the primary forum for communicating the party's message to members. The conference produces a daily publication of political analysis under the title Legislative Digest.
The 70th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C.,from March 4,1927,to March 4,1929,during the last two years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.
The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state,with each district containing at least 127,140 citizens. Similar to the lower house,the Alabama House of Representatives,the senate serves both without term limits and with a four-year term.
The New York State Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of New York. Its headquarters are in Manhattan,and it has an office in Albany.
California is a Democratic stronghold and considered to be one of the "Big Three" Democratic strongholds alongside New York and Illinois. Originally a swing state following statehood,California began regularly supporting Republicans for the first half of the 20th century. This changed with the passing of civil rights laws by Democrats in the 1960s and the subsequent rightward shift of the Republican Party. The party remained competitive with Democratic candidates until 1992. This changed amidst a struggling economy,when California flipped from Republican to elect Democrat Bill Clinton as President. Republicans still won statewide contests in the state until the late 2000s,with Arnold Schwarzenegger elected governor.
Ron Saunders is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 120th District,which includes all of Monroe County and parts of Miami-Dade County,from 1986 to 1994 and again from 2006 to 2012. Saunders was born in Key West in 1954,to Jack A. Saunders,a state representative from 1960 to 1964 who served as a United States magistrate judge from 1978 to 1981. Saunders was a National Merit Scholar in high school and later attended the University of Florida,where he was a member of Florida Blue Key,graduating with his bachelor's degree in 1976 and Juris Doctor in 1979.
Raymond Ehrlich was a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
Margaret Louise Carter is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1999 and 2001 to 2009 and was the first black woman elected to the state's legislature. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives until 1999,and then in the Oregon State Senate from 2001 to 2009. She served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate,Vice Chair for Ways and Means,and as a member of both the Health and Human Services and Oregon State Hospital Patient Care committees. She announced her resignation from the Senate effective August 31,2009,and took a post as Deputy Director for Human Services Programs at the Oregon Department of Human Services. In 2015,she was reportedly considering a return to the senate.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Indiana:
The 52nd Texas Legislature convened from January 9 to June 8,1951. All members present during this session were elected in the 1950 general elections.
Franklin Leo Kury is a former member of the Pennsylvania State Senate,serving from 1973 to 1980. He also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972.
William J. Lederer was an American politician and judge.
John Forrest Floberg was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) from 1949 to 1953.
Jeanette Marie Nuñez is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the 20th lieutenant governor of Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,she represented Miami-Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018,also serving as speaker pro tempore for her final two years in the office. Nuñez is the first Latina to serve as Florida lieutenant governor.
Robert Bruce Duff is an American politician,currently serving as a member of the Connecticut State Senate,where he represents Norwalk and part of Darien in Connecticut's 25th District. He previously served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,representing the 137th District. He is currently Majority Leader of the Connecticut Senate,and serves as chair of the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee and vice chair of the Legislative Management Committee.
The Forty-seventh Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma,composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Oklahoma City from January 5,1999,to January 2,2001,during the first two years of the second term of Governor Frank Keating.
Mary R. Grizzle,was a legislator and advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment,who served in both houses of the Florida state legislature. She was the first female Republican to serve in the Florida legislature.
The seventy-ninth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 3,1995. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the general election of November 3,1992,and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the general election of November 8,1994.
Ruth Small Stockton represented Jefferson County for 24 years as a Republican state representative in the Colorado General Assembly. Stockton was the Senate Majority Caucus leader (1967-1968) and the first woman to serve as the state's president pro tempore (1979-1980). She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1985.
