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American politicians with a disability. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American politicians . It includes politicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, MP 1924-29 and 1931–64, Prime Minister 1957–63 (had slight limp and weak right hand, affecting handwriting, by a series of wounds in World War I) Cecil Manning, MP 1944–50 (lost right arm serving in World War I) Frederick Martin, MP 1922–24 (blinded during military training in 1915)
Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. The state's current senators are Republicans John Cornyn (serving since 2002) and Ted Cruz (serving since 2013). A total of 27 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Liberal Republican have served or are serving as U.S. senators from Texas.
U.S politicians so frequently campaign for the middle class, but do they really understand our plight? In many cases, they seem just too rich to be able to sympathize with people who aren't...
Despite citizenship rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), and voting rights more explicitly by the Fifteenth Amendment (1870), African Americans faced institutional barriers to voting ...
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. 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 Texas. The list of names should be complete as of ...
Glen Maxey (born February 23, 1952) is an American politician from Austin, Texas, who was the first openly gay member of the Texas Legislature. [1] Active in the fight for gay rights, Maxey was a central figure in the establishment of facilities for the education and care of HIV-infected individuals, especially the AIDS Services of Austin (ASA).
Wendy Russell Davis [2] (born Wendy Jean Russell; [3] May 16, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician from Fort Worth, Texas.A member of the Democratic Party, Davis represented the 10th district in the Texas Senate from 2009 to 2015.