Bayh ’ s political career began at age 26 with his election to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1954, where he served two years as Speaker and four years as Democratic Floor Leader.

Prior to his election as Speaker served in other positions in the Democratic Caucus such as chairman of the Rules Committee, Majority Floor Leader, and chairman of the Rural West Tennessee Democratic Caucus.

He also served as the Democratic Majority Floor Leader ; another grandson, David Briley, served as a city council representative in Nashville.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

An extended interview with the Leader of the Democratic Left Alliance ), Hamal Books, 2001.

Former Prime Minister and Influential Leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has expressed his support for Nepali Congress ( Democratic ).

" The Trade ", as it came to be known, upset Canadians to the extent that New Democratic Party House Leader Nelson Riis demanded that the government block it, and Pocklington was burned in effigy outside the Northlands Coliseum.

** Roy Jenkins is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party.

** Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People ’ s Republic of Korea ( b. 1941 )

Nineteen Democratic representatives voted for Democrats other than Pelosi, who had been chosen as House Minority Leader and the Democrats ' candidate for Speaker, as a show of dissent.

The incumbent floor leaders are Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

Ryland Leader of the popular Democratic party, Ryland has grand plans for the abolition of nobility before the plague, but is unwilling to govern England during the plague.

He initially attempted to transfer the authority of Senate Majority Leader to the Vice Presidency, since that office made him President of the Senate, but faced vehement opposition from the Democratic Caucus, including members he'd counted as his supporters.

In 1961, after Johnson resigned from the Senate to become Vice President, Mansfield was unanimously elected the Democratic floor leader and thus Senate Majority Leader.

* Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) Leader Margaret Richie MLA was born and also lives in Downpatrick.

He also criticized the leaders of both parties for failing to address the crisis adequately, most notably attacking conservative Senate Democratic Leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas for his apparent closeness with President Herbert Hoover and ties to big business.

A notable former resident was Steny Hoyer, now Democratic Leader of the United States House of Representatives.

* Chris Redfern-Current chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, and former Ohio House Minority Leader.

From 1890 until his death, he was leader of the Democratic Party in the House, as either the House Minority Leader or the Speaker of the House.

* H. Truman Chafin, Democratic State Senator ( Majority Leader ), attorney

Following the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime opponent of the repository, became the Senate Majority Leader, putting him in a position to greatly affect the future of the project.

On November 17, 2010, Pelosi was elected as the Democratic Leader by House Democrats and therefore the Minority Leader in the Republican-controlled House for the 112th Congress.

The term " nouvelle gauche " was already current in France in the 50s, associated with France Observateur, and its editor Claude Bourdet, who attempted to form a third position, between the dominant Stalinist and Social Democratic tendencies of the left, and the two Cold War blocs.

In 2010, Franco-Ontarian New Democratic MP Claude Gravelle introduced a private member's bill in the House of Commons to recognize St John the Baptist Day as a federal holiday in Canada.

* Claude Bowers-Writer, Democratic politician, and ambassador to Spain and Chile

In the 1987 primary for treasurer, she defeated two legislative colleagues, Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., chief executive officer at the time of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, and Claude " Buddy " Leach, a former U. S. representative and the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

State labor president Claude Ramsay sought to broker an agreement between the Democratic Party presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale and the subject when the latter sought a veto over the federal storage of nuclear waste in Mississippi as a condition for his political support of Mondale.

James Claude Wright, Jr. ( born December 22, 1922 ), usually known as Jim Wright, is a former Democratic U. S. Congressman from Texas who served 34 years in the U. S. House of Representatives and was the Speaker of the House from 1987 to 1989.

Roemer finished third in the primary to Democratic State Representative Claude " Buddy " Leach, Jr., with 27 %, and Republican Jimmy Wilson, a former state representative from Vivian in north Caddo Parish.

Re-elected in 1952, Holland defeated former U. S. Senator ( and later U. S. Representative ) Claude Pepper in the 1958 Democratic primary.

Claude Denson Pepper ( September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.

Since 2002, the Democratic Executive Committee ( DEC ) of Lake County has held an annual " Claude Pepper Dinner " to honor Pepper's tireless support for senior citizens.

Claude Augustus Swanson ( March 31, 1862July 7, 1939 ) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Virginia.

Running on the independent platform, Montague solidly defeated Martin's candidate, Claude A. Swanson, for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia.

After leaving the Governor's Mansion on January 5, 1937, Sholtz unsuccessfully ran for the U. S. Senate in 1938, losing the Democratic primary to Claude Pepper.

Claude Gernade Bowers ( November 20, 1878 in Westfield, Indiana – January 21, 1958 in New York City ) was an American writer, Democratic politician, and ambassador to Spain and Chile.

* Spencer, Thomas T. "' Old ' Democrats and New Deal Politics: Claude G. Bowers, James A. Farley, and the Changing Democratic Party, 1933-1940 " Indiana Magazine of History 1996 92 ( 1 ): 26-45.

Smathers challenged the incumbent U. S. Senator Claude Pepper in the Democratic primary, and won by a margin of over 60, 000 votes.

* Anthony Claude " Buddy " Leach, Jr., United States Representative from 1979-1981, chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party