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Many states require elected municipal officers to be over 18 years of age or be a registered voter in the city thereof. Montana requires mayors to be at least 21 years of age. As of November 2016, most U.S. cities with populations exceeding 200,000 required their mayor to be a registered voter in the city thereof or at least 18 years of age.
In 1934, Rush Holt of West Virginia was elected to the Senate of the United States at the age of 29. Since the U.S. Constitution requires senators to be at least 30, Holt was forced to wait until his 30th birthday, six months after the start of the session, before being sworn in. [4] In 1954, Richard Fulton won election to the Tennessee Senate ...
The most concrete scenario would be a candidate who is affected by the age limit, he said. The oldest member of North Dakota’s three-seat congressional delegation is Republican Sen. John Hoeven ...
Members in the House of Representatives and Senate must be at least 25 and 30 years old, respectively, to be sworn into Congress, but there is no upper limit on their age in the Constitution.
A ballot measure to institute an age limit on members of Congress will pass in North Dakota, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. The measure will prohibit anyone from being elected or ...
Term limits have not proven to reduce campaign spending, [102] reduce the gender gap in political representation, [103] increase the diversity of law-makers, [104] or increase the constituent service activities of law-makers. [105] Term limits have been linked to lower growth in revenues and expenditures. [106]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is 81 and has experienced cognitive difficulties on the job this year. ... Most Americans think there should be an age limit for presidential candidates. Yet ...
In 1934, Rush D. Holt Sr. was elected to the Senate at the age of 29; he waited until he turned 30 (on the next June 19) to take the oath of office. On November 7, 1972, Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at the age of 29, which was only 13 days prior to his 30th birthday on November 20, 1972. Therefore, he reached his 30th birthday before the ...