Gail Buckner was a candidate for Secretary of State of Georgia in 2006, but lost to a woman who was the first Republican woman to be elected to the US Congress from Georgia, after defeating who?
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Gail Buckner Gail Buckner is a Democratic member of the Georgia State Senate, representing its 44th District since 2008. She was formerly a Georgia State Assembly representative of district 76, encompassing parts of Clayton County  from 1990 to 2006. Buckner represented district 76. Buckner was a candidate for Secretary of State of Georgia  in 2006, but lost to Republican Karen Handel.
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Karen Handel Karen Christine Handel (née Walker; born April 18, 1962) is an American businesswoman, politician, and member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 6th congressional district. In 2017, she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Georgia after defeating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff on June 20 in the 2017 special election to fill the vacancy in Georgia's 6th congressional district in the most expensive congressional race in American history.
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United States Senate election in Georgia, 1986 The 1986 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8, 1986. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mack Mattingly decided to run for re-election and lost a close race to Wyche Fowler.
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United States elections, 2006 The 2006 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 in the middle of Republican President George W. Bush's second term. All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state and two territorial governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and many state and local races. The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and won a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party.
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Gwenyfred Bush Gwenyfred Bush, better known as Gwen Bush, is an American politician from South Carolina, a member of the Republican Party.
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Katharine Byron Katharine Edgar Byron (October 25, 1903 – December 28, 1976), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27, 1941 to January 3, 1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland.
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Bev Perdue Beverly Eaves "Bev" Perdue (born Beverly Marlene Moore; January 14, 1947) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 73rd Governor of North Carolina from 2009 to 2013. She was the first female governor of North Carolina.
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Rick Boucher Frederick Carlyle "Rick" Boucher ( ; born August 1, 1946) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for  's 9 congressional district from 1983 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2010 elections, while trying to be elected to a 15th term, when he was challenged by Morgan Griffith.
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Suzanne Haik Terrell Suzanne Haik Terrell (born July 8, 1954) is the first and only Republican woman elected to statewide office in Louisiana. A practicing attorney, Terrell was the state's final commissioner of elections, a position which she held from 2000 to 2004. In 2002, she was the Republican nominee for United States Senate, losing a hotly contested and closely watched race against incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush appointed Terrell to a position as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Terrell is currently a partner with the New Orleans firm of Hangartner, Rydberg, and Terrell.
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United States Senate election in Georgia, 1996 The 1996 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic United States Senator Sam Nunn decided to retire instead of seeking a fifth term. The Republican Party nominated Guy Millner, a multi-millionaire businessman who was also the unsuccessful candidate that ran against Zell Miller in the 1994 gubernatorial election. Millner emerged as the victor from a crowded 6-person primary in July 1996. However, Max Cleland, the Secretary of State of Georgia ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.
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Judy Manning Judy Manning (born October 24, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former member of the House of Representatives in the U.S. state of Georgia. Manning is a Republican and represented District 34, which encompasses parts of Cobb County. She is married to Aymar Manning and has two grown children and three grandchildren.
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Dar'shun Kendrick Dar'shun N. Kendrick (born August 28, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American politician and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 93rd district; she previously represented the 94th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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United States Senate election in Michigan, 2006 The 2006 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow won re-election to a second term.
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Jean Schmidt Jeannette Marie Schmidt (born November 29, 1951) is a former U.S. Representative for Ohio 's 2 congressional district , serving from 2005 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party. She represented a district which stretched from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth.
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Kim McMillan Kim McMillan ("née" Ambrester, born 1963) is a Democratic politician who is mayor of Clarksville, Tennessee, and was the first woman in Tennessee history to be elected Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives. She was a candidate in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, but dropped out to run for mayor of Clarksville.
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Mary Margaret Oliver Mary Margaret Oliver (born March 7, 1948) is an American politician. She is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 82nd District, serving since 2002. She is a member of the Democratic party that has proposed gun control in Georgia. She previously served in the House from 1987 to 1992, and in the Georgia State Senate from 1992 to 1998.
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Georgia gubernatorial election, 1978 The Georgia gubernatorial election of 1978 was held on November 7, 1978. George Busbee was re-elected, the first time a Governor of Georgia was re-elected to the office.
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Buck McKeon Howard Philip "Buck" McKeon (born September 9, 1938) is a former U.S. Representative, serving from 1993–2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Bob Irvin Bob Irvin was an early leader of the modern Republican Party in Georgia in the United States. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives in the 1970s and again in the 1990s. He was the House Republican Leader. He ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2002, losing to Saxby Chambliss. He attracted attention in early 2005 by publicly calling for Ralph Reed to withdraw from the race for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.
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Mack Mattingly Mack Francis Mattingly (born January 7, 1931) is an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a United States senator from Georgia, the first Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
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United States elections, 2010 The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate were contested in this election along with 39 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia), four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races.
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Mae Nolan Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. She took her seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1923.