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A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. [1] Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor ...
A resign-to-run law is a law that requires the current holder of an office to resign from that office before they can run for another office. This is distinct from a dual mandate prohibition, where a person has to resign from their old office to assume the new office, rather than to run for the new office. Resign-to-run laws exist in several ...
The seniority date for an appointed senator is usually the date of the appointment, [citation needed] although the actual term does not begin until they take the oath of office. An incoming senator who holds another office, including membership in the U.S. House of Representatives, must resign from that office before becoming a senator. In the ...
Vance, who has served in the Senate since early 2023, resigned around two years into his six-year Senate term. "I hereby resign my office as a United States Senator from the State of Ohio ...
The first-term senator has to resign from his seat before he and President-elect Donald Trump are sworn into office on January 20. Now, it’s up to Ohio’s Republican governor to appoint Vance ...
New Jersey's senior senator, Sen. Bob Menendez, announced his plan to resign Aug. 20 from the U.S. Senate to his staff.
1861 – Hannibal Hamlin, United States Senator of Maine (January 17), to take office as Vice President of the United States. 1867 – Rutherford B. Hayes, United States Representative (July 20), to run for Governor of Ohio; 1873 – Henry Wilson, United States Senator of Massachusetts (March 3), to take office as Vice President of the United ...
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is slated to resign by the end of the day Tuesday, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges. Menendez signaled his resignation last month in ...