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Jennings Randolph (March 8, ... On August 26, 1970, ... In 1972, when the amendment passed the Senate, Randolph was a co-sponsor. [14]
Which state was the first to officially ratify the amendment was a matter of dispute: the Minnesota legislature approved the amendment at 3:14 p.m. CST (4:14 p.m. EST), minutes before U.S. Senate president pro tempore Allen J. Ellender officially approved the federal law at approximately 4:35 [39] or 4:40 pm. EST. [40] Legislators in Delaware ...
Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, and the seventh Governor of Virginia. As a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail .
These were the first elections in which all citizens at least 18 years of age (instead of 21, and older) could vote, due to the 1971 passage of the 26th Amendment. As of 2024 [update] , this is the last time in which a Republican won a Senate election in New Jersey.
Byrd was re-elected to the Senate eight times. He was West Virginia's junior senator for his first four terms; his colleague from 1959 to 1985 was Jennings Randolph, who had been elected on the same day as Byrd's first election in a special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Matthew Neely. Byrd official portrait as a congressman
He stayed true to a path set by stalwarts like Robert C. Byrd, Jennings Randolph and Jay Rockefeller, even as he navigated the shifting terrain of national energy policy.
A day after Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100, CNN political commentator Scott Jennings tore into the 39th president’s legacy, calling him a “terrible president” with a “big ego ...
A Los Angeles judge has thrown out portions of Leah Remini’s lawsuit against Scientology, finding that some of the church’s attacks on her are protected under the First Amendment. But in a ...