A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives ( 1835 – 1839 ) and Governor of Tennessee ( 1839 – 1841 ).

A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican since the 1980s, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office, for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U. S. Attorney.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

In the April 4, 1989 general election Daley faced Aldermen Timothy C. Evans, candidate of the newly created Harold Washington Party, and Republican candidate Edward Vrdolyak, a former Democrat who had antagonized Washington on the city council while Washington served as mayor.

Rayburn's successor, Democrat John William McCormack ( served 1962 – 1971 ), was a somewhat less influential Speaker, particularly because of dissent from younger members of the Democratic Party.

Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, served as a United States Representative from 1937 – 1949 and as a Senator from 1949 – 1961, including six years as United States Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader and two as Senate Majority Whip.

The current governor is Jerry Brown, a Democrat who was elected on November 2, 2010, and previously served as governor of California from 1975 to 1983.

James Oliver Eastland ( November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986 ) was an American politician from Mississippi who briefly served in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1941 ; and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978.

From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside John Stennis, also a Democrat.

During his last Senate term, he served as President pro tempore of the Senate since he was the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate.

He was elected as a " reform Democrat " in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as Majority Leader.

In 2003 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution to designate Interstate 16 in honor of James L. Gillis, Sr., a Democrat who served as a State Representative, State Senator and Director of the Georgia Department of Transportation, as the Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway.

With the support of both Opposition parties and Labour rebel MPs on 29 April 2009, a Liberal Democrat motion that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence was passed, allowing Gurkhas who served before 1997 residence in the UK.

She served as mayor of Juneau from 1983 to 1985 and in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1987 to 1994 as a Democrat.

Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death.

" R. Sanford Jordan, a Democrat, served from 1956 to 1976.

* Joseph Ransdell, a Democrat who served in Congress from 1913 to 1931.

The current sheriff is Democrat Randy Maxwell, who has served since August 31, 1990. In June 2011, Maxwell announced his retirement effective in 2012.

Mount Vernon is served by a weekly newspaper, The Mount Vernon Democrat, and radio stations WRCY-AM 1590 and WYFX-FM 106. 7.

Astin also served as the campaign manager for his friend, Democrat Dan Adler, a businessman in the entertainment industry, for California's 36th congressional district special election, 2011.

A former Democrat, Adley also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1980-1996.

* Roy McArthur " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born 1943 ) served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 until his death in office in 2006.

Winfield Scott Hammond, a Democrat who served in 1915.

The 1924 monument was the subject of several stories in the Natchez Democrat, as reporters noted it lacked representation of black Army troops who had served in the war.

* Birthplace of Oregon Republican politician Norma Paulus who served two terms each as Oregon Secretary of State and as Superintendent of Public Instruction, and who lost the 1986 Oregon governor ’ s race to Democrat Neil Goldschmidt.

The panel's action depends on the return of Representative James W. Trimble, Democrat of Arkansas, who has been siding with Speaker Sam Rayburn's forces in the Rules Committee in moving bills to the floor.

Clinton then pointed to his moderate, " New Democrat " record as governor of Arkansas, though some on the more liberal side of the party remained suspicious.

* The Watauga Democrat is published on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday of each week,

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.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

The Social Democrat city government obliged in 1927 with an eight-month ban on the party, which Goebbels exploited to the limit.

* 2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

He had worked on Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaigns, including the 1940 presidential election against Wendell Willkie.

Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter asking for a formal investigation of the time between the start of Rove's investigation and John Ashcroft's recusal.

His mother considered herself a Communist, while his father was a Social Democrat, and both were committed nudists, and the young Lars went on several childhood holidays to nudist camps.

A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.

Further public criticism and disputes between Democrat senators resulted in Stott Despoja's resignation as leader on 21 August 2002, following presentation by four of her six colleagues ( those who had earlier enabled the passage of the GST ) with a ten-point ' reform ' agenda proposed by John Cherry.

In 2004, Stott Despoja took 11 weeks ' leave from the Senate following the birth of her first child before returning to full duties as Democrat spokesperson on, inter alia, Higher Education, Status of Women, and Work and Family.

Harding was the only Republican presidential candidate to ever defeat Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt on a presidential ticket.

The threshold requirements have no bearing on the two main political parties ( the Republican and Democrat Parties ) as they easily meet the requirements, but have come into play for minor parties such as the Green and Libertarian Parties.

November 7: U. S. presidential election, 1848 | The first US presidential election held in every state on the same day sees United States Whig Party | Whig Zachary Taylor of Virginia defeat United States Democratic Party | Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan.

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1848: Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana defeats Democrat Lewis Cass of Michigan in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

At the Convention, Bush's primary campaign opponent Pat Buchanan gave his famous " culture war " speech, criticizing Clinton and Gore's social progressiveness, and voicing skepticism on his " New Democrat " brand.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.