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The Senate originally met, virtually in secret, on the second floor of Federal Hall in New York City in a room that allowed no spectators. For five years, no notes were published on Senate proceedings. A procedural issue of the early Senate was what role the vice president, the President of the Senate, should have. The first vice president was ...
James Wilson was the only member of the Constitutional Convention who supported electing the United States Senate by popular vote. Originally, under Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, each state legislature elected its state's senators for a six-year term. [3]
Prior to the Amendment, Article I, Section 3 provided that the Senators were chosen by their state legislatures for a term of six years. The 17th Amendment changed the selection process to an ...
The 64th Congress of 1915–1917 was the first full session to not have any contemporary or former slaveholders in its roster. The last slaveholder to ever hold office in Congress was Rebecca Latimer Felton, who was appointed to represent Georgia in the United States Senate for one day during the 67th Congress. In addition to being the first ...
Representative Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman to serve in Congress. From the first United States Congress in 1789 through the 116th Congress in 2020, 162 African Americans served in Congress. [1] Meanwhile, the total number of all individuals who have served in Congress over that period is 12,348. [2]
The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total population. This count would determine: the number of seats in the House of Representatives; the number of electoral votes each state would be allocated; and how much money the states would pay in taxes.
As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1860 and 1861, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. [1] In these elections, terms were ...
“Senator Graham has called slavery ‘the original sin of the country,’” an aide said in a short written statement in response to a detailed briefing on the Reuters findings about Maddox.