Brice " Buzzy " Flynn, ( 1970 – 1988 ) Democrat

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

Instead of holding Lincoln in contempt of court as was expected, the judge, a Democrat, reversed his ruling, allowing the evidence and acquitting Harrison.

A former Democrat Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

In 1999, Love stated that she was a Democrat.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

Stewart and Harlan were conservative Republicans, while Brennan was a Democrat who became a leading voice for liberalism.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

In March 1976, the Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe was established, which gradually evolved into the ELDR Party with a matching group in the European Parliament, the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

The new Senate was formed in March 1917 by Social Democrat and trade union leader Oskari Tokoi.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former foreign affairs minister, was the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor in 2009

Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and chairman of the appropriations committee, said he initially had favored keeping Guantanamo open until Obama produced a " coherent plan for closing the prison.

In 1967, after the formation of the Grand Coalition between SPD and CDU, he became chairman of the Social Democrat parliamentary party, a post he held until the elections of 1969.

The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by the chairman ( kommunstyrelsens ordförande ), since 1996 Social Democrat Lennart Holmlund ( b. 1946 ).

Instead, the Social Democrat Oskari Tokoi was elected, with Ståhlberg being appointed as chairman of the Constitutional Council.

During that time, Burnside, who had been a Democrat before the war, ran as a Republican, playing a prominent role in military affairs as well as serving as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in 1881.

The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat and avid segregationist from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely.

Since 1986, he has been deputy chairman of the International Democrat Union ( IDU ), and he has been President of the Deutsch-Norwegische Gesellschaft ( German-Norwegian Society ).

Effective August 28, 2011, Pearce was named chairman to replace Democrat Wilma Liebman, whose term had expired.

Two Republicans sought U. S. House seats on the Rockefeller ticket in 1966, John Paul Hammerschmidt, the outgoing party chairman won in the northwestern Third District, and A. Lynn Lowe, a Texarkana farmer who would serve as party chairman from 1974 – 1980, lost in the southern Fourth District race to the Democrat David Pryor.

Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He was chairman of the International Young Democrat Union from 1998 to 2002.

During the period 1995 to 1997, Reinfeldt was chairman of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe.

" Democratic National committeewoman for California from 1940 to 1944 ; vice chairwoman of the Democratic State central committee and chairman of the women ’ s division from 1940 to 1944 ; member of the national advisory committee of the Works Progress Administration and of the State committee of the National Youth Administration in 1939 and 1940 ; member of the board of governors of the California Housing and Planning Association in 1942 and 1943 ; appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Voluntary Participation Committee, Office of Civilian Defense ; appointed by President Harry S. Truman as alternate United States Delegate to the United Nations Assembly ; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, and Eighty-first Congresses ( January 3, 1945-January 3, 1951 ); ... lecturer and author.

He was a chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, ranking member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, and third-ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.

Obey served as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee from 2007 to 2011 ; he briefly chaired this committee from 1994 to 1995 and served as its ranking Democrat from 1995 to 2007.

The seat had opened up when 36-year incumbent Democrat and former House Armed Services Committee chairman F. Edward Hébert retired.

In 1971, just a year out of school, he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Democrat from a predominantly blue-collar district in Baton Rouge and served eight terms, eventually becoming chairman of the Transportation Committee.

Bissell was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and as an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress ( March 4, 1849-March 3, 1855 ); he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs ( Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses ).

He currently serves as one of the chairmen ( and the only Democrat to be a chairman ) of the House Appropriations committee.

The five senators, Riegle, Alan Cranston ( Democrat of California ), Dennis DeConcini ( Democrat of Arizona ), John Glenn ( Democrat of Ohio ), and John McCain ( Republican of Arizona ), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board ( FHLBB ).

The 120 members of the Constituent Assembly met at the opening session on 23 April, and elected as chairman, Social Democrat August Rei.