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Hilda Lucia Solis is an American politician and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 1st district. Solis previously served as the 25th United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013,as part of the administration of President Barack Obama. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009,representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
Daniel (Dan) Hamburg is an American politician and a former one-term Democratic Party Congressman from 1993 to 1995. In 1998,he was the Green Party gubernatorial candidate from California. He remains active in the Green Party and was an elected member of the Mendocino County (California) Board of Supervisors.
The 2006 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7,2006,to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. It took place in the middle of President George W. Bush's second term in office. All 435 seats of the House were up for election. Those elected served in the 110th United States Congress from January 3,2007,until January 3,2009. The incumbent majority party,the Republicans,had won majorities in the House consecutively since 1994,and were defeated by the Democrats who won a majority in the chamber,ending 12 years of Republican control in the House.
Leslie Larkin Byrne is an American businesswoman and politician. In 1992,she became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party,she served for one term (1993–1995) in the 103rd Congress.
Lynn Alice Schenk is an American politician and lawyer from California. A Democrat,she served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995.
Vivien Bronshvag is an American politician from California and a member of the Democratic Party and has lived in Kentfield,California since 1975.
Katherine Keith "Kate" Hanley is an American Democratic politician in Virginia. She currently serves as Secretary of the Fairfax County Electoral Board. She previously served as Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2006 to 2010,Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 2003,as a County Supervisor for the Providence District from 1986 to 1995,and on the Fairfax County School Board.
Mary Casillas Salas is an American politician from Chula Vista,California. She is a former California Assembly member who represented the 79th Assembly District from 2006 to 2010. She ran for the California State Senate in 2010 but lost. In 2012 she was elected to the Chula Vista City Council,a position she previously held from 1996 to 2004. She was elected Mayor of the city of Chula Vista in 2014.
Gloria Negrete McLeod is an American politician who was the United States representative for California's 35th congressional district from 2013 to 2015. The district included portions of eastern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County. She was a California state senator,representing the 32nd district,from December 2006 until her election to Congress. Prior to that,she served in the California State Assembly from 2000 to 2006,after having lost in a 1998 bid for the Assembly. A resident of Chino,she defeated Joe Baca,Jr.,in the Democratic primary for the Senate seat. She defeated Joe Baca,Sr.,in her 2012 election to Congress. In February 2014,she announced her intention not to stand at the following elections,and instead to run for the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. Negrete McLeod lost the November election to Republican state Assemblyman Curt Hagman.
Wilma Chan was an American politician in California serving on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. A Democrat,she served in the California State Assembly from 2000 to 2006 before being termed out,representing the 16th District,which at the time included Oakland,Alameda,and Piedmont. She served as Assembly Majority Whip from 2001 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2004 as Assembly Majority Leader,the first woman and the first Asian American to hold the position. In 2008,Chan lost a Democratic Party primary election for the California State Senate District 9 seat.
Marian C. Bergeson was an American Republican politician from California. The first woman ever to serve in both the California State Assembly and California State Senate,she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1978 to 1995,a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 1995 to 1996,and California State Secretary of Education from 1996 to 1999. In 1986,Marian Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel was named after her.
The 2008 congressional elections in Virginia were held on November 4,2008 to determine who would represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives,coinciding with the presidential and senatorial elections. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 3,2009 until January 3,2011. Primary elections were held on June 10,2008.
Grantland L. Johnson was a Sacramento-area politician and former Secretary of California's Health and Human Services Agency,the first African-American to hold the position. He was born in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood in northern section of Sacramento,California. He was raised by his grandmother,Irene Wallace and mother Mae Willie Johnson and grew up with his two sisters,Rosemary and Cathy. Grantland attended Grant High School where he participated in extra curricular activities such as football,the violin,the debate team and baseball.
Connie Conway is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2014. Prior to serving in the Assembly,Conway served as a member of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors from 2000 until 2008. Conway is a member of the Republican Party. She is a candidate in the 2022 special election in California's 22nd congressional district to replace Devin Nunes,who stepped down in January 2022.
The 2010 congressional elections in Alabama were held on November 2,2010,to determine will represent the state of Alabama in the United States House of Representatives. Alabama has seven seats in the House,apportioned according to the 2000 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected will serve in the 112th Congress from January 3,2011 until January 3,2013. The primary elections were held June 1,with the runoff on July 13.
Ted Lempert is a Democratic politician who served two stints in the California State Assembly from 1988 until 1992 and from 1996 until he was term limited in 2000. Lempert represented the Peninsula subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. Lempert is currently the President of Children Now and previously served as CEO and founder of EdVoice. Both organizations advocate for changes to the California educational system. Lempert is also a trustee on the San Mateo County Board of Education representing Trustee Area.
The 2018 United States Senate election in California took place on November 6,2018,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent California,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
The Cook County,Illinois general election was held on November 8,1994.
A general election will be held in the U.S. state of Colorado on November 8,2022. All of Colorado's executive officers are up for election,as well as all of Colorado's seats in the United States House of Representatives,and Colorado's U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Michael Bennet.
Stephen Bennett is an American activist,educator,and politician serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 37th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state legislature,he was active in local politics in Ventura,California,and Ventura County,California,with him serving on the city council and board of supervisors.
