when was claire mccaskill elected to the senate?
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United States Senate election in Missouri, 2012 In 2006, Claire McCaskill was elected with 49.6% of the vote, narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Jim Talent. Time featured the race in their Senate article. Similar to other races, the article mentioned how McCaskill was fading in pre-election polls, and she was considered the most vulnerable/endangered Democratic incumbent that year.
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Dianne Feinstein title / office. Dianne Feinstein, née Dianne Emiel Goldman (born June 22, 1933, San Francisco, California, U.S.), American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and began repesenting California later that year. She was the first woman to serve as senator from that state.
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The effort to block the FCC's repeal of net neutrality just hit an important milestone A 30th senator — Claire McCaskill of Missouri — has signed on to sponsor a resolution that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission's vote to repeal its net-neutrality rules. That's significant because 30 senators are needed to force a floor vote on the resolution.
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- Photos of the Week. 1  Senator Jim Beall gives a thumbs-up after a legislative vote. 2  Senate President pro tem Kevin de León recognizes Minority Leader Jean Fuller for her contributions to the Senate as the first woman leader of the Republican Caucus.
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List of United States Senators from Illinois List of United States Senators from Illinois. Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818, and has been represented in the United States Senate by 47 senators. Senators from Illinois are elected to Class 2 and Class 3. The Senate twice refused to seat Frank L. Smith, in December 1926 for an appointed term and in March 1927 for an elected one, due to corruption, but he is included in this list because Smith and the Governor considered him to be a senator for approximately two years.
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Women in the United States Senate In fact, the first time there were three women in the Senate simultaneously was in 1992, when Jocelyn Burdick of North Dakota joined Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. The number increased to four in November, when Dianne Feinstein won a special election in California.
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Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937â) Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937–) Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated to be the first woman Secretary of State by President William Jefferson Clinton on December 5, 1996, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 22, 1997, and sworn in the next day. She served in the position for four years and ended her service on January 20, 2001. Rise to Prominence.
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway Hattie Wyatt Caraway. Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American political figure who became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Caraway represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside over the Senate.
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- Felton, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, was appointed for a day in November 1922. The fourth generation of women in Congress—those elected after 1977—enjoyed unprecedented growth and influence.
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Claire Underwood Claire Hale Underwood (born 1965) is the 47th and current President of the United States, assuming office after the resignation of her husband Francis Underwood. She is the first woman to serve as President.
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- United States Senate. John McCain was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982. Senator McCain’s reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, after serving two terms in the U.S. House.
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- • First elected (in a Special Election [re: passing of Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka [Republican]): 2016 • Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018 : Candidate list (3) Democratic : Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza : Republican : former state Representative Darlene Senger : Libertarian : Claire Ball
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List of Republican Women in the US Senate for 2017â2019 Five women represent Republicans as senators in the 115th Congress, running from 2017 through 2019. The number is one fewer than for the previous Congress as New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte lost re-election by only about 1,000 votes. Alaska: Lisa Murkowski. First Elected: 2004 (Appointed in 2002 to fill a vacancy) Next Election: 2022
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- Senate Run. In January 2015, Kamala Harris announced her bid for U.S. senate. She defeated her opponent Loretta Sanchez to become the second woman of African or Asian descent to hold such a position. Both Carol Moseley Braun (D-Illinois) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) predated her.
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United States Senate election in Missouri, 2012 Incumbent U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill was unopposed in the Democratic primary and U.S. Representative Todd Akin won the Republican nomination with a plurality in a close three-way race. McCaskill was re-elected to a second term.
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Andy Harris (politician) Harris was first elected to the Maryland Senate in 1998 for District 9 for Baltimore County. He defeated his predecessor, Minority Leader F. Vernon Boozer, in the 1998 primary election.
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James Lankford James Lankford (b. March 4, 1968, in Dallas, Texas) is a Republican member of the U.S. Senate from the state of Oklahoma. He was first elected to the Senate in the 2014 special election for the seat left vacant by the retirement of Tom Coburn (R). Lankford is seeking re-election in 2016. Lankford was previously a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Oklahoma. Lankford was first elected by the voters of Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District in 2010 and served two consecutive terms prior to his successful 2014 bid for U.S. Senate.
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Rebecca Latimer Felton Felton thus became the first woman senator and only woman seated in the Senate from Georgia, and served until George took office on November 22, 1922, one day later. Final years Felton was engaged as a writer and lecturer and resided in Cartersville, Georgia.
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Trump considering Scott Brown to head Veterans Affairs Brown was elected to the Senate in Massachusetts in the 2010 special election following the death of veteran Sen. Ted Kennedy. In 2012, Democrat Elizabeth Warren unseated him; Brown then tried to run for Senate in neighboring New Hampshire in 2014, but lost his race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
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- An inelastic demand is one that is not very sensitive to price change, such that the percent change in quantity demanded will be less than the percent change in price. As seen in the price point elasticity of demand example, inelastic demand has a price elasticity between zero and negative one, not inclusive.
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Women who ran before Hillary Clinton: 'I cannot vote, but I can be voted for' Belva Lockwood was the first woman to practice law in front of the US supreme court. Photograph: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. Margaret Chase Smith, 1964, a Republican from Maine who served in Congress for 34 years, was the first woman to run for a major party’s nomination. She received 227,007 votes in her party’s primary and lost to Barry Goldwater. Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Margaret Chase Smith served in Congress for 34 years.
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Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937â) Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937–) Introduction. Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated to be the first woman Secretary of State by President William Jefferson Clinton on December 5, 1996, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 22, 1997, and sworn in the next day.
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- Dianne Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992 with more votes cast for a senator in U.S. history to fill the remaining two years of then-Senator Pete Wilson's term when he resigned to become California's Governor.
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Translations for atomic number The atomic number, Z, should not be confused with the mass number, A, which is the number of nucleons, the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom. The number of neutrons, N, is known as the neutron number of the atom; thus, A = Z + N (these quantities are always whole numbers).
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Are Spurs for You? Finally, spurs should be used only if your horse does not respond to your leg cue. “You always want to apply your calf first, then your spur,” says Mike Hachtel of Collinsville, Texas, an American Paint Horse Association and National Snaffle Bit Association judge and multiple world-champion western pleasure trainer.
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Claire Underwood Claire Hale Underwood (born 1965) is the 47th and current President of the United States, assuming office after the resignation of her husband Francis Underwood. She is the first woman to serve as...