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The legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada has convened many times since statehood became effective on October 31, 1864. It continues to operate under the amended Constitution of Nevada of 1864 . [ 1 ]
Nevada State Capitol in 1875. For seven years after Nevada's admission as a U.S. state in 1864, the Nevada Legislature did not have a proper meeting place. In 1869, the Legislature passed the State Capitol Act, signed into law by Governor Henry G. Blasdel, providing $100,000 for the construction of a capitol building. [15]
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Twelve members of the Nevada Assembly were termed out with the 2010 election serving their last legislative session in 2011. The Nevada Assembly met at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City until 1971, when a separate Legislative Building was constructed south of the Capitol. The Legislative Building was expanded in 1997 to its current ...
Speaker Term Party County/Residence Notes Charles W. Tozer: 1864–1867 Union: Storey: James A. Banks: 1866–1867 Union Humboldt: Robert D. Ferguson: 1867–1869
There have been three self-identified Asian Americans to serve in the Nevada Legislature. Although Sharron Angle said at a campaign stop in 2010 when running against Harry Reid for the United States Senate that, "I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly, [2]" Angle never in fact identified herself as Asian ...
The Nevada Senate is the upper house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of U.S. state of Nevada, the lower house being the Nevada Assembly. It currently (2012–2021) consists of 21 members from single-member districts. [1] In the previous redistricting (2002–2011) there were 19 districts, two of which were multimember.
John Ellison [1] (born 1953) is an American politician who is a member-elect of the Nevada Senate from District 19. A Republican , he previously served in the Nevada Assembly from 2010 to 2022, representing District 33.