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Recorded September 23, 2010. John Eric Ensign (born March 25, 1958) is an American veterinarian and former politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 2001 until his resignation in 2011 amid a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into his attempts to hide an extramarital affair.
John Ensign scandal. The John Ensign scandal related to revelations in 2009 of an extramarital affair between United States Senator John Ensign from Nevada and campaign aide Cynthia Hampton from 2007 to 2008 and actions taken by Ensign to keep the affair secret. He was investigated for potential violations of federal rules about conflict of ...
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
Two of them, Senator John Ensign, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate and the fourth-ranking member in his party's Senate leadership, and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, immediate past chair of the Republican Governors Association and U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2001, were considering running for president in ...
The 2000 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democrat Richard Bryan decided to retire instead of seeking a third term. Republican nominee John Ensign won the open seat. John Ensign defeated Ed Bernstein in a landslide despite George Walker Bush carrying the state by a very narrow margin in the ...
t. e. The 2006 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican John Ensign defeated Democratic nominee Jack Carter to win re-election to a second term. This election was the only Senate election in Nevada where the incumbent Republican Senator was re-elected or won re-election since 1980 and the only ...
Serving since (in the House/Senate) Date of birth Place of birth U.S. Congress John H. Bankhead Democratic Alabama : March 1, 1920 77 Myocarditis, [109] influenza [110] Washington, D.C. Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Alabama: B. B. Comer: June 11, 1907 (U.S. House tenure March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1907) September 13, 1842 Marion County, Alabama: 66th
Dole opens a Senate Aging Committee hearing on Medicare drug benefit implementation. Recorded February 2, 2006. Mary Elizabeth Alexander Dole (née Hanford; born July 29, 1936) [1] is an American attorney, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, she ...