A third contender, Shreveport journalist and then public relations representative Stanley R. Tiner, a Democrat, was eliminated in the first round of voting.

Other candidates running were Jeff Sinnard, a civil engineer from Anderson Township, and the most conservative Democrat ; James John Parker, a hospital administrator from Pike County ; and Arthur Stanley Katz, a lawyer originally from New York City who had retired to Mason, who ran as a write-in candidate.

In 1998, Dent won an open 16th District Senate seat when Democrat Roy Afflerbach ( who later served as Mayor of Allentown from 2002 to 2006 ) retired to take up an ultimately unsuccessful bid for Congress.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called Kerry a " Jane Fonda Democrat ".

* Steve Ackerman, Chairman, Democrat

On the advice of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron Lord Patten of Barnes was appointed by the Queen-in-Council as Chairman of the BBC Trust, and he took office on 1 May 2011, in the place of Sir Michael Lyons.

* Howard Dean — Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former Governor of Vermont ( Democrat )

Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, who is a registered Democrat, referred to himself as a " Rockefeller Republican " in a CNBC interview in April 2012.

Leahy serves as second-highest Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and as Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs.

In his position as the second-highest Democrat on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Leahy serves as Chairman of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition and General Legislation.

Paul Volcker, a Democrat, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System in August 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and reappointed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan.

John Barrett was elected to the City of Edinburgh Council for South-East Corstorphine ward in 1995 and was elected Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Group from 1995 to 2001.

He was elected Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly and Chairman of the European Democrat Group, the third largest political group in the Assembly.

Additionally, he served as Chairman of the Democratic Caucus Financial Services Task Force and was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

Morrill was elected Maine's House of Representatives in 1854 as a Democrat and served as Chairman of the Maine's Democratic Party.

Cho was a New Democratic Party candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election and was initially identified as a New Democrat when he joined Metro Council, however, he soon became an ally and supporter of then Metropolitan Toronto Chairman Alan Tonks and dropped his NDP affiliation.

A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee ( 1977 – 1995 ) and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.

In 1930, Governor Allen was defeated for re-election by Democrat Joseph B. Ely, and returned to the Winslow Brothers & Smith Company, where he served as Chairman of the Board until his death.

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Barbara Boxer of California, and the Vice Chairman is Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

He has held numerous leadership positions for the Christian Democratic Party in Germany, including Deputy Federal Chairman of the Junge Union ( CDU youth section ) ( 1973 – 1981 ), Chairman of the CDU Federal Committee on Foreign and Security Policy ( 1989 – 1999 ), CDU District Chairman of Ostwestfalen-Lippe ( since 1996 ), Secretary of the CDU Land Executive of North Rhine-Westphalia ( since 1996 ), Chairman of the CDU Federal Committee on European policy ( since 1999 ), Assistant Chairman of the International Democrat Union ( since 1991 ), Deputy Chairman of the European Union of Christian Democratic Workers ( since 1991 ), and Chairman of the European Union of Christian Democratic Workers.

He is the Chairman of the New Democrat Coalition and the Queens County Democratic Party.

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.

He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson in a landslide, with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years.

Bogart, a liberal Democrat, organized a delegation to Washington, D. C., called the Committee for the First Amendment, against the House Un-American Activities Committee's harassment of Hollywood screenwriters and actors.

** 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.

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

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

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.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

As a House freshman, Reed was appointed to the Potter Commission, which was to investigate voting irregularities in the presidential election of 1876, where his skill at cross examination forced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden to personally appear to defend his reputation.

When Harding joined the U. S. Congress, both houses were controlled by the Democrats, and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, was in the White House ; therefore, the legislative agenda was dominated by the opposition.

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.

Daley's career in politics began when he became a Democratic precinct captain ; although he was a lifelong Democrat, Daley was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936.

John Wentworth ( nicknamed " Long John ") ( March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888 ) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

The Democratic Party's repudiation of the Bourbon Democrats ( their pro-business wing, represented by incumbent President Grover Cleveland ), set the stage for 36 years of Republican control of the White House, interrupted only by the two terms of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Winchester is currently represented in the House of Commons through the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency by Steve Brine of the Conservatives who in the General Election of 2010 beat Martin Tod, the Liberal Democrat candidate, by 3048 votes ( a margin of 5. 4 %).

Running as a Democrat, Thurmond was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1946, largely on the promise of making state government more transparent and accountable by weakening the power of a group of politicians from Barnwell, which Thurmond dubbed the Barnwell Ring, led by House Speaker Solomon Blatt.

The investigation led to media allegations of an affair with married, and then-U. S. Representative, Gary Condit, a five-term Democrat representing California's 18th congressional district and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Passed during the Wilson administration, the legislation was introduced by Alabama Democrat Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the act passed by a vote of 277 to 54 on June 5, 1914.

" Early the following year, Representative Robert E. Andrews, Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to require that " when the legislatures of an additional three states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the House of Representatives shall take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as a part of the Constitution.

Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down.