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  2. Seneca Nation of New York - Wikipedia

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    According to J.C. Seneca, a former Seneca Party politician who defected from the party in 2014, the ruling class has ensured that only the Seneca Party has had enough candidates to qualify for straight-ticket voting in which voters can select all of a party's candidates for office with a single ballot mark by intimidating candidates from other ...

  3. George Heron - Wikipedia

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    George D. Heron (February 22, 1919 – May 26, 2011) was president of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Seneca Nation of New York) from 1958 to 1960 and again from 1962 to 1964. In addition to his cultural and community work, he is known as a leader of the Seneca opposition to Kinzua Dam, and for his work organizing the tribal resettlement.

  4. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    The Seneca (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik ... In 1763 a Seneca war party ambushed a British supply train and soldiers in Battle of Devil's Hole, also known as the ...

  5. Straight-ticket voting - Wikipedia

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    To qualify, a political party must field candidates in each seat up for election in a given year. In practice, only the Seneca Party, which has been the dominant party in the nation's politics for decades, has ever received the straight-ticket option. Opponents of the Seneca Party have accused the party of using the straight-ticket option to ...

  6. Tara Setmayer - Wikipedia

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    Tara Olivia Setmayer [1] (born September 9, 1975) is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Seneca Project.She is a former CNN political commentator, contributor to ABC News and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill.

  7. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Once the party reached Fort Duquesne, Mary was given to the two Seneca women, who took her downriver to their settlement. After a short ceremony, a Seneca family adopted Mary, renaming her as Deh-he-wä-nis (other romanization variants include: Dehgewanus, Dehgewanus and Degiwanus, Dickewamis). She learned this meant "a pretty girl, a handsome ...

  8. Steve Pigeon - Wikipedia

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    Gerald Steven Pigeon, (August 12, 1960 [1]) usually cited in newspaper accounts as Steve Pigeon, is a Democratic politician from Western New York.A controversial figure in contemporary Western New York politics, Pigeon was Erie County Democratic Chairman from 1996 to 2002, parlaying his clout to become an advisor to State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., Tom Golisano, and Clare Bronfman of NXIVM.

  9. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first women's rights convention was the Seneca Falls Convention, a regional event held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. [3] Five women called the convention, four of whom were Quaker social activists , including the well-known Lucretia Mott .