In an apparent effort to head off such a rival primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yesterday with Representative Charles A. Buckley, the Bronx Democratic leader, and with Joseph T. Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic leader.

* Tax policy and the economy: a debate between Michael Harrington and Representative Jack Kemp, April 25, 1979., ( New York, N. Y.: Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1979, no ISBN )

Democratic U. S. Representative John Conyers described this as a " stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation.

William Allen ( December 18 or 27, 1803 – July 11, 1879 ) was an Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.

He defeated incumbent Representative Bennett Stewart in the Democratic primary.

Allen Granberry Thurman ( November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895 ) was a Democratic Representative, Ohio Supreme Court justice, and Senator from Ohio, as well as the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in 1888.

Day offered the dissidents an amnesty at the end of the summer, but seven of them, including Grey and Strahl, turned it down and formed their own parliamentary grouping, the Democratic Representative Caucus.

Democratic Representative Cordell Hull said, " Our foreign markets depend both on the efficiency of our production and the tariffs of countries in which we would sell.

The Ludlow Amendment, requiring a public referendum before any declaration of war except in cases of defense against direct attack, was introduced several times without success between 1935 and 1940 by Democratic Representative Louis Ludlow.

Walker was in turn succeeded by long-term Democratic Representative G. V. " Sonny " Montgomery of Meridian.

A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U. S. Representative ( 1943 – 1953 ) and a U. S. Senator ( 1953 – 1977 ) from Montana.

Tufts alumni in the government sector include Kostas Karamanlis, former Prime Minister of Greece ; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister ; Scott Brown, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts ; Bill Richardson, Democratic Governor of New Mexico ; and Peter DeFazio, Democratic United States Representative from Oregon.

Webb County also voted for the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, State Representative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent John Cornyn.

The three state row offices winners also carried Elk and Democratic incumbent State Representative Dan Surra lost after nine terms to Republican Matt Gabler in 2008.

* Jerry Litton-U. S. Representative who died in a plane on the night he won the 1976 Democratic primary for U. S. Senate

The 2012 State Representative race for the 65th Ohio House district features Steve Myers of Milford, the Democratic nominee, and John Becker of Union Township, the Republican nominee.

McClellan was a member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U. S. Representative ( 1935 – 1939 ) and later as U. S. Senator ( 1943 – 1977 ) from Arkansas.

Previously represented by Democratic State Senator Shane Broadway and Representative Dawn Creekmoore, in the 2010 election cycle, Bauxite's representation switched to all-Republican with the election of former State Representative Jeremy Hutchinson and Andy Mayberry to the State Senate and House, respectively.

Prosecutors allege that Mr. Hubbard had a long standing rivalry with Democratic State Representative Frank Newkirk Jr. whose father Frank Newkirk Sr. was mayor of Salem at the time.

* John J. Cochran ( 1880 – 1947 ), Democratic U. S. Representative from Missouri, 1926-1947

When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

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.

Johnson supported the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, who thought it up to the people in each state to decide on the issue.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

" The Democratic party, proclaiming itself the party of white men, North and South, aligned with Johnson.

The moderates ' efforts to compromise with Johnson failed, and a political war ensued between the Republicans ( both radical and moderate ) on one side, and on the other, Johnson and his allies in the Democratic Party in the North and the conservative groupings in the South.

Horatio Seymour received the Democratic presidential nomination, which Johnson silently endorsed.

In his first and last speech in the Senate, Johnson spoke eloquently in opposition to Grant's military intervention between rival governments in Louisiana, when the gubernatorial election was disputed and Democratic supporters ousted the winning Republican side with armed force in New Orleans.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

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.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

However, Johnson withdrew from the 1968 Democratic Primary, surprising many Americans.

In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.

* August 24 – 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.

** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson edges out antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam.

** U. S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.

Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.