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The 1968 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate. Held on November 5,the 34 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections. They coincided with the presidential election of the same year. The Republicans picked up five net seats in the Senate. This saw Republicans win a Senate seat in Florida for the first time since Reconstruction.
Kenneth Barnard Keating was an American politician,diplomat,and judge who served as a United States Senator representing New York from 1959 until 1965. A member of the Republican Party,he also served in the United States House of Representatives,representing New York's 40th and 38th congressional districts from 1947 until 1959. Additionally,he served as a judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1966 until 1969 and was U.S. ambassador to India from 1969 until 1972 and Israel from 1973 until 1975.
In American politics,a conservative Democrat is a member of the Democratic Party with more conservative views than most Democrats. Traditionally,conservative Democrats have been elected to office from the Southern states,rural areas,the Rust Belt,and the Midwest. In 2019,the Pew Research Center found that 14% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters identify as conservative or very conservative,38% identify as moderate,and 47% identify as liberal or very liberal.
Floyd Davidson Spence was an American attorney and a politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina. Elected for three terms to the South Carolina House of Representatives from Lexington County as a Democrat,in 1962 Spence announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party,as he was unhappy with shifts in the national party.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was United States Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1911. He was succeeded by Henry L. Stimson. He was an attorney,politician,and businessman in Nashville,Tennessee,where he also taught at Nashville University. He came to have a national role after moving to Chicago,Illinois,in 1899.
Kenneth Lamar Holland was an American politician and attorney who as the Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina between 1975 until 1983.
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South Carolina v. Katzenbach,383 U.S. 301 (1966),was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States. The preclearance provisions were ruled constitutional and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enforced in full.
Bert Andrew Bandstra served one term as a Democratic U.S. Representative from south central Iowa,winning election in 1964 but losing elections in 1966 and 1968.
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The Clariosophic Society,also known as ΜΣΦ,is a literary society founded in 1806 at the University of South Carolina,then known as South Carolina College,as a result of the splitting in two of the Philomathic Society,which had been formed within weeks of the opening of the college in 1805 and included virtually all students. At what was called the Synapian Convention held in February,1806,the members of Philomathic voted to split into two separate societies,one of which became known as Clariosophic,while the other society became known as Euphradian. Two blood brothers picked the members for the new groups in a manner similar to choosing up sides for an impromptu baseball game. John Goodwin became the first president of Clariosophic. Other early presidents include Stephen Elliott,Hugh S. Legaré. George McDuffie and Richard I. Manning. The Society was reactivated in 2013.
Grady Leslie Patterson,Jr. was a Democratic Party politician who served as the South Carolina Treasurer and a United States Air Force Lieutenant General.
Speedy Oteria Long was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 8th congressional district from January 3,1965,until January 3,1973. He was a member of the Long family,a cousin of Huey Long,Earl K. Long,Russell Long,and Gillis William Long.
Malcolm Buie Seawell was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as North Carolina Attorney General from 1958 to 1960. Seawell was raised in Lee County,North Carolina. After law school,he moved to Lumberton and joined a law firm. From 1942 to 1945 he worked for the U.S. Department of War in Washington,D.C. He then returned to Lumberton and successfully ran for the office of mayor in 1947. He held the post until the following year when he was appointed 9th Solicitorial District Solicitor. While working as solicitor Seawell gained state-wide prominence for his aggressive efforts to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan (KKK),and was credited for ultimately pushing the organization out of Robeson County. Governor Luther H. Hodges later made him a judge before appointing him Attorney General of North Carolina in 1958 to fill a vacancy.
