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The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...
Governor Branstad resigned on May 24, 2017, to become the United States Ambassador to China. He held the title of Governor of Iowa for 22 years. On December 14, 2015, he became the longest-serving governor in US history, breaking the record held by George Clinton of New York, who served 21 years from 1777 to 1795 and from 1801 to 1804.
In the vast majority of states, the Senate districts provided proportionately greater representation to rural areas. However, in the 1964 decision Reynolds v. Sims, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, unlike the United States Senate, state senates must be elected from districts of approximately equal population.
New interest was aroused in abolishing the provision for the Senate appointment by the governor. [67] Accordingly, Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin [68] and Representative David Dreier of California proposed an amendment to remove this power; senators John McCain and Dick Durbin became co-sponsors, as did Representative John Conyers. [67]
Senator Joseph McCarthy began a series of investigations in the Senate, and his practice of wide, unsubstantiated accusations became known as McCarthyism. The United States military structure was reorganized with the National Security Act of 1947, which created the Department of Defense.
Delaware Senate: 21 2 or 4 None 1.952381 62 Florida Legislature: Florida House of Representatives: 120 2 Four terms Florida Senate: 40 2 or 4 Two terms 3 160 Georgia General Assembly: Georgia House of Representatives: 180 2 None Georgia Senate: 56 2 None 3.214286 236 Hawaii State Legislature: Hawaii House of Representatives: 51 2 None Hawaii ...
Governors and lieutenant governors are elected in all states, in some states on a joint ticket and in some states separately, some separately in different electoral cycles. The governors of the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands are also elected.
Historical graph of party control of the Senate and House as well as the Presidency [1]. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.