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Incumbent resigned April 29, 1981, before a planned expulsion vote, having been convicted of bribery in the Abscam sting operation. New member elected July 21, 1981. Democratic hold.
Resigned January 27, 1981, to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Maryland 5: May 19, 1981 Gladys Spellman: Steny Hoyer: Incapacitated since last Congress and seat declared vacant February 24, 1981. Ohio 4: June 25, 1981 Tennyson Guyer: Mike Oxley: Died April 12, 1981. Mississippi 4: July 7, 1981 Jon Hinson: Wayne Dowdy ...
The legislature met again on September 16, 1981, to enact amendments to the election laws, concerning the primary elections in New York City. [4] The legislature met again from October 26 [5] to 30, 1981, to consider welfare and tax matters. [6] The legislature met again on December 3, 1981, to override Governor Carey's veto of a new property ...
Secretary Hillary Clinton (born 1947), first lady from 1993 to 2001, Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee; Governor Howard Dean (born 1948), Democrat from Vermont [28] Vice President Al Gore (born 1948), Democrat from Tennessee; Senator Elizabeth Warren (born 1949), Democrat from Massachusetts
Massachusetts has since gained a reputation as being a politically liberal state and is often used as an archetype of liberalism, hence the usage of the phrase "Massachusetts liberal". [2] In the 1920s, Democrats Joseph Buell Ely (governor in the early 1930s) and David I. Walsh (governor in the 1910s, then US Senator) successfully organized a ...
1977–1981: Secretary of State: Cyrus Vance: 1977–1980: ... The establishment of an NHI plan was the top priority of organized labor and many liberal Democrats ...
Reagan is reelected in a 49-state landslide victory over liberal Democrat Walter Mondale. [144] 1986. September: Associate Justice William Rehnquist is confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. [145] Reagan chooses Rehnquist in a deliberate effort to move the Court to the right, knowing he has the conservative constitutional agenda ...
Reacting to all these perceptions of American decline internationally and domestically, a group of academics, journalists, politicians, and policymakers, labeled by many as "new conservatives" or "neoconservatives", since many of them were still Democrats, rebelled against the Democratic Party's leftward drift on defense issues in the 1970s ...