The idea of hosting the 1967 World Exhibition dates back to 1956, but it was in 1958 that Conservative Senator Mark Drouin suggested during his speech at the Brussels Exhibition that Canada should host a World Exhibition to celebrate its centennial.

Once in the Senate, Johnson was known among his colleagues for his highly successful " courtships " of older senators, especially Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia, and the leader of the Conservative coalition and arguably the most powerful man in the Senate.

Led in Congress by Senator Robert A. Taft and the Conservative coalition, they blocked almost all New Deal proposals after 1936, and shut down the WPA, CCC and many other programs by 1943.

However, this gambit was not entirely successful: in March 2006, Senator Ruth joined the new Conservative Party and switched caucuses.

Finally, following the 2004 federal election, Conservative Senator Jean-Claude Rivest left the party to sit as an independent ( choosing not to join Senators Doody, Atkins and Murray in their rump Progressive Conservative caucus ).

With the 29 November 2010 retirement of former Liberal Senator Peter Stollery, Harper was in a position to appoint another Conservative Senator, bringing the Conservatives an absolute Senate majority with 53 of 105 seats.

Senator Grassley has 100 percent ratings from the National Right to Life Committee, Eagle Forum, and Family Research Council, an 84 percent rating from the American Conservative Union, and a 20 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign.

Inhofe is one of the most conservative members of either house of Congress ( the eighth-most conservative Senator, according to the March 2007 National Journal rankings of Liberal / Conservative members of Congress.

In a Maclean's article covering the March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin mused that if Bachand had remained elected and participatory in the new party, he would have likely replaced Peter MacKay as deputy leader, and would have served as the new Conservative Party's chief Quebec lieutenant as part of Stephen Harper's attempts to woo Quebec voters into supporting the Tories.

Similarly, after the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged in 2003, Senator John Lynch-Staunton was named interim leader of the new Conservative Party until the first leadership convention selected Stephen Harper.

Conservative writers and lawmakers including Hugh Hewitt, BigGovernment. com's Rich Muny, and Senator James Inhofe ( R-OK ) immediately defended both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, crediting them with gains in both the House and the Senate.

To represent " labour " and the working class, Borden appointed to the Cabinet Conservative Senator Gideon Decker Robertson who had been appointed to the Senate in January and had links with the conservative wing of the labour movement through his profession as a telegrapher.

In 2006 Stoffer withdrew his own private members bill aimed at preserving Canada's neglected heritage lighthouses, in order to support similar legislation, Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act introduced by Conservative Senator Pat Carney.

* Archibald Woodbury McLelan ( Liberal-Conservative Senator, resigned and elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative after 1881 )

* After failing to receive the Republican Party's 1990 Wilson Pakula nomination, incumbent and registered Conservative New York State Senator Serphin Maltese won the party's nomination as a write-in candidate.

*" Taking on FDR: Senator Josiah Bailey and the 1937 Conservative Manifesto " by Troy Kickler, December 13, 2006

Senator John Abbott succeeded Macdonald as Conservative leader and Prime Minister after Macdonald's death on June 6, 1891.

He was elected with the support of defiant Liberal senators after moderate Conservative Senator Michael Meighen resigned his position at the direction of the Prime Minister's Office who reportedly wished to install a more ideologically conservative co-chair.

His supporters included former cabinet ministers Don Mazankowski and Charlie Mayer, Senator Consiglio Di Nino, and Jim Jones, the sole Progressive Conservative representative in the Canadian House of Commons from Ontario.

He was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee until he " reluctantly " agreed to resign on the request of the government who reportedly wished to appoint a more ideologically conservative Senator to the role after the committee issued a report critical of the Conservative government's foreign aid policy.

Conservative Congressmen led by Republican Senator Robert A. Taft argued that business cycles in a free enterprise economy were natural and that compensatory spending should only be exercised in the most extreme of cases.

He was appointed as a Conservative Senator on January 2, 2009.

* 1992 – John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

John Major's Back to Basics campaign backfired because of media focus on its moral aspects, where they exposed " sleaze " within the Conservative Party and, most damagingly, within the Cabinet itself.

* Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council leader T. Dan Smith and others ( 1972-4 ): Maudling resigned, Smith sentenced to imprisonment.

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics until 1852 ; this time, having differed from the policy of Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for Hertfordshire as a Conservative.

Conservative scholars consider internal evidences, such as the lack of the mention of the destruction of the Temple and a number of passages that they consider characteristic of an eyewitness, sufficient evidence that the gospel was composed before 100 and perhaps as early as 50 – 70: in the 1970s, scholars Leon Morris and John A. T. Robinson independently suggested earlier dates for the gospel's composition.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

* John Young ( Scottish politician ) ( 1930 – 2011 ), Conservative and Unionist Member of the Scottish Parliament

* 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

Sir John Major, ( born 29 March 1943 ) is a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

During his leadership of the Conservative Party, Major was portrayed as honest (" Honest John ") but unable to rein in the philandering and bickering within his party.

John Ashcroft at Conservative Political Action Conference | CPAC in February 2010.

* 1986 – John Spence, British Conservative Party politician ( b. 1920 )

In 1999, Kehilat Nitzan, Melbourne's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation was established, with foundation president Prof John Rosenberg.

Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.

The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a transfer of power from his Conservative government to a Liberal government led by Alexander Mackenzie.

In the general election of 1997, for example, 13. 5 million people voted for the Labour Party led by Tony Blair ; 9. 6 million for the Conservative Party, led by John Major, the previous Prime Minister ; and, 5. 2 million for the Liberal Democrat Party led by Paddy Ashdown.

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Swift had been appointed rail regulator in 1993 by the then Conservative transport secretary John MacGregor MP.

A lawyer speaking for one of those groups remarked on GMTV that his strategy was to sue the government for incorrect and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when John Major was Conservative Prime Minister.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

" Yale historian Gaddis Smith notes " an ethos of organized activity " at Yale during the 20th century that led John Kerry to lead the Yale Political Union's Liberal Party, George Pataki the Conservative Party, and Joseph Lieberman to manage the Yale Daily News .< ref >

* In 1960, the Canadian Bill of Rights becomes law, and Universal suffrage, the right for any Canadian citizen to vote, was finally adopted by John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government.

* July 4 – UK Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party.