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He was first elected as a Republican, and left the Republican Party to become an independent in early 2020 before switching to the Libertarian Party in April 2020. He did not seek re-election in 2020 [ 2 ] and switched back to the Republican Party in 2024 to run for the U.S. Senate election in Michigan .
James Sidney Rollins (April 19, 1812 – January 9, 1888) was a 19th century Missouri politician and lawyer. He helped establish the University of Missouri at Columbia, and led the successful effort to get it located in Boone County, and gained funding for the proposed state university with the passage of a series of legislative acts in the General Assembly of Missouri (state legislature) at ...
The Libertarian Party of Missouri is the Missouri affiliate of the Libertarian Party.The state chair is Bill Slantz. The party has been an established party in Missouri with ballot access since 1992 due to the state's threshold of vote percentage required for ballot access (2% of the votes in a statewide race).
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Missouri. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Missouri. The list of names should be complete, but ...
In April 2020, Representative Justin Amash from Michigan's 3rd congressional district became the first Libertarian member of Congress, after switching from the Republican Party and spending time as an independent. However, Amash has never been elected as a Libertarian, and did not seek re-election in 2020. [92]
Libertarian members often cite the departure of Ed Crane (of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank) as a key turning point in the early party history. [206] Crane (who in the 1970s had been the party's first executive director) and some of his allies resigned from the party in 1983 when their preferred candidates for national committee ...
Dougherty was elected city attorney of Liberty, Missouri, in 1881 and served five years. He was editor and proprietor of the Liberty Tribune 1885–1888. Dougherty was elected prosecuting attorney of Clay County, Missouri, in 1888 and served six years. He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
The 2008 congressional elections in Missouri were held on November 4, 2008, to determine who will represent the state of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives. The primary election for candidates seeking the nomination of the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, and the Libertarian Party was held on August 5.