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Switched parties after being censured by the Nebraska Democratic Party for voting against abortion rights. [109] Andy McKean: Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 58th district April 2019: Republican: Democratic [110] Stanford Morse: Member of the Mississippi State Senate from Harrison and Stone Counties March 27, 1963 ...
2007 – Lincoln Chafee, former Independent and Democratic governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015), former Republican U.S. senator for Rhode Island (1999–2007), switched from Republican to Independent in 2007, switched from Independent to Democrat in 2013 while serving as governor of Rhode Island, ran for President in the 2016 Democratic Party ...
Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938 75th: Democratic: Republican: Lost Democratic renomination, defeated for re-election as a ...
(The Center Square) – A second Florida state House Democrat has switched to the Republican Party, building on momentum that has expanded the Republican Party under Gov. Ron DeSantis. On Dec. 9 ...
The chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Anderson Clayton, at the time called Cotham’s party switch “a deceit of the highest order.”. In August, Mecklenburg County Democrats ...
The transition into today's Democratic Party was cemented in 1948, when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform and, in response, many Democrats walked out and formed the Dixiecrats. Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade, but in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act .
The Republicans used to favor big government, while Democrats were committed to curbing federal power. So why did the party switch occur?
Caucused with the Democrats. Gave Democrats temporary control of the senate. Joe Lieberman: Connecticut: 2006 110th: Democratic: Independent Democrat: Caucused with the Democrats. Lieberman was re-elected on the Connecticut for Lieberman ticket; however, he never formally joined that political party. Arlen Specter [2] Pennsylvania: April 28 ...