He campaigned successfully for the riddance of `` Death Avenue '' and also brought about the ending of pollution of metropolitan beaches by sewage.

The newer party campaigned heavily, while the older, more confident party expected the Moroccan merchants and small businessmen to support them as they had done for many years.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

He campaigned relentlessly for George Brown, owner of the Reformist paper The Globe in the 1851 election, helping him to win a seat in the assembly.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.

Though he was not impressed by either, he campaigned for the Democratic ticket of Buchanan and Breckenridge.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

He heavily campaigned for George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

He campaigned for Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.

Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

Lomborg campaigned against the Kyoto Protocol and other measures to cut carbon emissions in the short-term, and argued for adaptation to short-term temperature rises as they are inevitable, and for spending money on research and development for longer-term environmental solutions, and on other important world problems such as AIDS, malaria and malnutrition.

The Cornish Nationalist Party ( CNP ),, was a political party in the United Kingdom, led by Dr James Whetter which campaigned for independence for Cornwall.

In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.

The society campaigned for the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in private by consenting adults, a reform which was voted through parliament nine years later.

Various pastors and other religious figures and activists such as Rick Warren, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson campaigned for various social and political causes have achieved celebrity status in mainstream media as well.

Some campaigned for a boycott.

Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a Somali politician who had campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum of 1958, eventually wound up as the nation's first president ( 1977 – 1999 ).

" He actively campaigned for Nixon in the final days and may have done Nixon some harm.

Maximian realized that he could not immediately suppress the rogue commander, and so, for the whole campaigning season of 287, campaigned against tribes beyond the Rhine instead.

During the senate adjournment, the issues of the railroad and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise became entangled in Missouri politics as Atchison campaigned for re-election against the forces of Thomas Hart Benton.

While he campaigned for Conservative candidates in the 1917 federal election he did not stand for re-election himself.

He successfully campaigned for re-election from his own jail.

He subsequently campaigned for Oliver in his successful re-election attempt.

" After he left the cabinet, Blair still campaigned for Lincoln's re-election and Lincoln and the Blair family retained close ties.

The Centre consistently supported Brüning's government and in 1932 vigorously campaigned for the re-election of Paul von Hindenburg, calling him a " venerate historical personality " and " the keeper of the constitution ".

Encouraged by his mother, Hatfield's first experience with politics came at the age of 10, when he campaigned in his neighborhood for President Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign.

Gardiner campaigned for re-election in Reigate, but was not successful, losing to the new Conservative candidate.

Mrs. Roosevelt came out of retirement and campaigned briefly for Herbert Hoover in his bid for re-election, thus campaigning against her nephew-in-law Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Pallister campaigned for re-election at the federal level, and was noncommittal about his provincial ambitions.

He campaigned for re-election in the 2007 Calgary municipal election and was re-elected with 61 % of the votes.

Burrows did not seek re-election in 1903, but campaigned for the federal House of Commons the following year.

Maguire campaigned for re-election as a Wheat Board advisor in 1994 on an openly anti-monopoly platform, arguing that sellers could receive higher prices through an open market.

She campaigned for re-election in 2009 although her tenure during her second term was marred by controversy in response to a City of Houston ethics investigation.

Dougherty campaigned for re-election in 2005 but did not win the Democratic primary, losing to opponent Ron Young.

She decided not to seek re-election in 1992, and instead campaigned for the congressional seat held by incumbent U. S. Rep. Tom Petri.

The Opposition Liberal and Progressive parties both campaigned against repeal and one of Ferguson's ministers, William Folger Nickle, resigned from the cabinet and ran for re-election against the government as a Prohibitionist candidate.

In 1932 he campaigned for the re-election of Hindenburg, calling him a " venerated historical personality " and " the keeper of the constitution ".

Instead, UKIP actively campaigned for his re-election as a result of his anti-EU views.

Copp appears to have left the Liberal-Progressives before the 1958 provincial election, and campaigned for re-election as an independent candidate in Brokenhead.

Prior to the vote, Lew campaigned heavily spending an estimated $ 10 million campaigning for his re-election focusing mainly on smaller shareholders.

In 1992, Velella campaigned for Senator D ' Amato, who was facing a tough re-election fight against Democratic challenger, New York Attorney General Robert Abrams.

Olson has said that while he campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000, he did not support his re-election in 2004, saying: " Foreign policy and defense blunders aside, the last thing I wanted was an administration combining aggressive social conservatism with uncontrolled spending and big new government programs.

Hennessy campaigned for re-election to the Thunder Bay city council in 1988, and won more votes than any other candidate.