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As a congressman, LaGuardia represented an ethnically diverse slum district in East Harlem and, although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes.
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As a congressman, LaGuardia was a tireless and vocal champion of progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families.
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Lansing currently lies mostly within the boundaries of Michigan's 8th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Mike Rogers since 2001.
The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in Michigan's 7th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Tim Walberg since 2011.
The district was one of the seats that the Democrats lost to the Republicans during the election ; before the 2010 election, congressman John M. Spratt had represented the district since 1983 but was defeated 55 % to 45 % in 2010.
* Charles Haight ( 1838 – 1891 ), United States congressman who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1867-1871.
* Kenny Hulshof, former Republican 2008 Missouri gubernatorial candidate and congressman who represented the Missouri's 9th Congressional District was born in Sikeston in 1958.
She was also the great-granddaughter on her father's side of Oakes Ames ( 1804 – 1873 ), an industrialist and congressman who was impeached in the Crédit Mobilier railroad scandal of 1872 ; and Governor-General of New Orleans Benjamin Franklin Butler, an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.
The district's second congressman, Rayburn ( the longtime Speaker of the House ), represented the district for 48 years.
The district's best-known congressman, Wright Patman, represented the district for 47 years — the second-longest tenure of anyone in Congress from Texas.
Henry Bonilla ( born January 2, 1954 ) is a former congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
The bridge's namesake, Herbert Covington Bonner, was a Democratic congressman who represented the area between 1940 and 1965.
In 1990 unimpressed by the 12 term congressman Chalmers Wylie who represented his district, Arnebeck challenged him in the GOP primary.
William Oswald Mills ( August 12, 1924 – May 24, 1973 ), was a Republican U. S. congressman who represented the 1st Congressional district of Maryland from May 25, 1971 until his death.
Bingham represented the 23rd District until 1972, when, as a result of re-districting following the 1970 census, he was elected to the House from the 22nd District of New York following a bruising primary with neighboring Democratic incumbent congressman James H. Scheuer.
The people of an area or district who vote in their congressman and are represented by him / her for the congressional period.
The district's best-known congressman, Floyd Spence, represented the district for over 30 years and was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1995 to 2001, when he died a few months after being elected to a 16th term.
was an American congressman who represented the state of New York.
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The Republican congressman for Texas's 14th district, Ron Paul, is a proponent of the Austrian School.
* Allen West, U. S. congressman, FL-22 district
* Mike Sodrel-Former congressman of Indiana's 9th district.
Schuyler Colfax, the congressman in the district was asked to name the post office.
* Lee E. Geyer, California's 17th congressional district congressman.
He was an attorney who had moved to Philadelphia after serving as the last black Republican congressman representing North Carolina ’ s 2nd Congressional district.
He is also a congressman representing North Carolina's 11th congressional district.
* Patrick Kennedy-former U. S. congressman for Rhode Island's First district ( 1995 – 2011 )
* Francis Condon, US congressman representing Rhode Island's 1st congressional district ; born in Central Falls
* Charles Risk, US congressman representing Rhode Island's 1st congressional district ; born in Central Falls
Both the city and the county were named for Collin McKinney, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and a congressman for the Red River district of the Republic of Texas.
One Republican congressman who voted against the initial bill accused Pelosi of unethically benefiting Del Monte Foods ( headquartered in her district ) by the exclusion of the territory, where Del Monte's StarKist Tuna brand is a major employer.
Owens won the election in a district where portions had not had a Democratic congressman since the 19th century.
A hero of the American Revolution, he later served as a member of the New York Assembly ( 1792 – 1793 ) and as a congressman in the U. S. House of Representatives ( 1793 – 1794 ) from that district.
* Paul Ryan, Republican congressman for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, 1999 – present, also Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 United States presidential election.
* Peter DeFazio, US congressman from Oregon 4 district
Although each district should have a population of at least 250, 000 people, all provinces have at least one legislative district, regardless of population, whose residents vote for their own congressman ; several cities have representation on their own independent of provinces, although they should have at least a population of 250, 000.
In 1888, Dolliver challenged the incumbent congressman for Iowa's 10th congressional district, Adoniram J. Holmes, for the Republican nomination.
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Storm works for the Bureau of Disabled Veterans Affairs, Gunner is a veterinarian in memory of the now-dead Pooch, Sarge owns a string of service stations along the East Coast and Johnny Cloud is a third-term congressman.
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" Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., a congressman from Harlem, branded the film an " insult to American minorities " and " everything that America as a whole stands for.
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" He also blamed tobacco companies for lying to consumers about cigarettes, although congressman Ron Paul ( also a physician ) had advised him, in 1988, while on his show, that smoking was highly unhealthy and responsible for a huge number of deaths every year.
It was mentioned that during his third term as a congressman he had received a spot on the prestigious House Committee on Ways and Means, although he also served on the House Administration Committee (" the Siberia of committees ") with then-congressman Bob Russell.
The town will long remember the election in 1957 and 1959 of a favorite son, Dr. Godofredo S. Reyes, who became the first, and so far the only congressman and provincial governor of Ilocos Sur, from the town, although another son, Atty.
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Matthew Lyon, born in Ireland, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont.
* Dutch Ruppersberger, U. S. congressman from Maryland
* Wesley E. Disney, former US congressman from Oklahoma
* John Duncan Young ( 1823 – 1910 ), US congressman from Kentucky
For example, when a vote on behalf of a tariff is traded by a congressman for a vote from another congressman on behalf of an agricultural subsidy to ensure that both acts will gain a majority and pass through the legislature, logrolling occurs ( Shughart 2008 ).
It would not be resolved until the congressman who was supposed to have reined in its excesses but instead wound up profiting from it was dead.
The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.
The regular Democratic candidate was John W. Davis, a little-known former congressman and diplomat from West Virginia.
Cold War tensions were exacerbated by the downing near Moneron Island by Soviet fighters of a civilian jet liner, Korean Air Flight KAL-007 with a complement of 269 passengers and crew, including a congressman from Georgia, Larry McDonald.
* Luther Badger ( 1785 – 1869 ), US congressman from New York
David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, and a group of other Barnburner Democrats including Preston King of New York, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Gideon Welles of Connecticut, and Jacob Brinkerhoff of Ohio, had already been meeting in early August strategy meetings.
One group of lawmakers led by Georgia congressman Lynn Westmoreland came from some preclearance states, and claimed that it was no longer fair to target their states, given the passage of time since 1965 and the changes their states had made to provide fair elections and voting.
* John P. Leedom, ( 1847-1895 ), born in Adams County, United States congressman from Ohio and Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives.
Tradition holds that a congressman was particularly disgusted by the appearance of a midshipman returned from cruise.
* Charles Pelham ( congressman ) ( 1835 – 1908 ), U. S. Representative from Alabama
* Brad Sherman ( born 1954 ), U. S. congressman from California
He was a U. S. congressman from Wisconsin before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon.
He was a rarity in politics at the time — a truly senior Republican congressman from a former Confederate state.
Mizell was elected as a three-term Republican congressman from North Carolina, serving from 1969-1975.
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