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Jesse Helms - Wikipedia  Helms was the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's history. He was widely credited with shifting the one-party state into a competitive...
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Party switching in the United States - Wikipedia  In the United States politics, party switching is any change in party affiliation of a partisan public figure, usually one who is currently holding elected office. Use of the term "party switch" can also connote a transfer of held power in an elected governmental body from one party to another. .... 1970  Jesse Helms, later U.S. Senator from North Carolina (19732003)...
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Joe Manchin - Wikipedia  Joseph "Joe" Manchin III (born August 24, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia. Manchin, a member of the Democratic Party, served as the Governor of West ... Political party, Democratic. Spouse(s) ... His father and his grandfather both once served as Mayor of Farmington, West Virginia. His uncle...
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Former N.C. Senator and conservative firebrand Jesse Helms dies ...  Jul 4, 2008 ... Raleigh, N.C.  Jesse Helms, the firebrand United States senator whose ... in 1950, when he worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of segregationist ... He won his first public office in 1957, serving one term on the Raleigh City Council, ... His switch to the Republican Party in 1970 paved the way for many...
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Jim Jeffords - Wikipedia  James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (May 11, 1934  August 18, 2014) was a U.S. Senator from Vermont. Sworn in to the Senate in 1989, he served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party ... Political party, Republican (before 2001) .... Jeffords' party switch made him only the second Senator from Vermont to caucus with...
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"It All Began at DePauw," Says Former VP Dan Quayle '69 in ...  Mar 31, 2015 ... A 1969 graduate of DePauw, Quayle engaged in a discussion with Jeffrey ... More than 30 years later, "I think one of the reasons that we don't see ... not even a famous senator," and his eldest son said, "You know he's going to pick Bob Dole. .... long after the spotlights and microphones had been turned off.
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TNReport Time Served in U.S. Senate has Tempered Lamar ...  Nov 3, 2014 ... The 12-year incumbent Republican U.S. Senator, now running for his third ... Gordon Ball, the Democratic candidate for Senate, has hit him on it. ... Alexander says he followed the rule when he served as governor from 1979-1987. ... like Kansas Republican Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee,...
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Aiken and Leahy leave different marks on Vt. - Rutland Herald  Jan 3, 2009 ... MONTPELIER  In 1974 Patrick Leahy was the upstart Democratic prosecutor ... But Leahy, running in the first election after the Watergate scandal had ... 27, Leahy surpassed Aiken as Vermont's longest-serving United States senator. ... At 68, he still enjoys his job and is looking forward to working with the...
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Rockefeller's exit from Senate paves way for Capito - Conservative ...  Jan 11, 2013 ... Jay Rockefeller had decided not to seek re-election in 2014. At age 75 and after 30 years in the Senate, Rockefeller had decided to end a political ... Gaston Caperton, who last held office in 1996, State Senate President Jeff ... The controversial votes she cast included support for the cash for clunkers...
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Jesse Helms - Wikipedia  Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921  July 4, 2008) was an American politician and a leader in the conservative movement. He was elected five times as a Republican to the United States Senate from North Carolina. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001 ... Helms was the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's...
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Dale Bumpers, former U.S. senator and Arkansas governor, dead at 90  Jan 2, 2016 ... Dale Bumpers, a former U.S. senator and Arkansas governor who ... "He was a man of policy and honor and not politics," Bumpers said. ... from 1971 to 1975, and represented The Natural State in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1999. He is ... Bumpers entered politics a decade later at the urging of his father,...
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Bill Bradley - Wikipedia  William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player and politician. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. ... He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990, left the Senate in 1997, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the ..... November 9, 1978. p.
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James J. Gresham Barrett, former Representative for South ...  James J. Gresham Barrett [R-SC3, 2003-2010], the former Representative from South ... Barrett, a Republican, was the representative for South Carolina's 3rd...
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United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 1966 ...  The 1966 South Carolina United States Senate special election was held on ... However, former Governor Fritz Hollings won the Democratic primary election and went ... district , in office since 1963, defeated Democratic challenger Fred LeClercq. ... Hartnett attacked Hollings for co-sponsoring a bill in 1983 that would have...
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Robert Byrd - Wikipedia  Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the .... He was West Virginia's junior senator for his first four terms; his colleague...
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One Other Journalist Recalls Gore's Drug Use, But Says  Only two of the 36 journalists who worked at the newspaper with Gore and were ... while serving in the Army in Vietnam and later while living in Nashville, where he worked as a Tennessean reporter and editorial writer and attended classes at ... of times" and quit only after announcing he would run for Congress in 1976.
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Longest-serving senator dies after changing nation - tribunedigital ...  June 27, 2003|By Karen Hosler | Karen Hosler,SUN NATIONAL STAFF ... He was 100 and had been the longest-serving senator in history. ... 5, at the age of 100 after more than 48 years in office. ... became the first senior Democrat to bolt his party for the GOP in a region that has now witnessed almost a complete turnover.
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Democrats Lose Senate Seat With Switch by Coloradan - NYTimes ...  Published: March 4, 1995 ... They said Mr. Campbell had become increasingly estranged from his party since ... But no one seemed under any illusion that Senator Campbell, 60, who roars ... Don Bain, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said he saw no reason for Mr. Campbell to quit only to run as a Republican.
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GOP Wins Senate Control For First Time in 28 Years - CQ Almanac ...  Not only will the Senate be more Republican, it will be noticeably more ... blitz, where he won a runoff election against a well-known businessman by a 21 margin. ... new members who will replace them have served a total of 30 years in Congress. ... a liberal Democratic symbol ever since his election to the Senate in 1962.
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John Lindsay - Wikipedia  John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician, lawyer, and broadcaster who was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, ... He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and .... In 1965, Lindsay was elected Mayor of New York City as a Republican with the support of the...
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The Senate & Senators Flashcards | Quizlet  John Glenn. Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip. ..... Dick Cheney. You want to break ties in the U.S. Senate, so use recess to study hard & become VP like this man is today.