* Spencer Cone Jones ( 1836 – 1915 ), the President of the Maryland State Senate, Mayor of Rockville, Maryland

The election of 1836 is the only election so far where the office of the Vice President has been decided by the Senate.

On February 4, 1836, both the House and Senate passed a bill providing for the formation from western Bartholomew, eastern Monroe, and northern Jackson counties of a county to be named for Gen. Jacob Brown, who defeated the British at the Battle of Sackett's Harbor in the War of 1812.

He was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate from Boston in 1833, and was its president in 1836 – 1837.

After a term in the Ohio House of Representatives ( 1834 ) and the Ohio State Senate ( 1836 – 38 ) as a Jackson Democrat, he purchased a newspaper in Columbus that became the Ohio Statesman, which he edited until 1857.

He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature: the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836, and the Massachusetts Senate in 1850.

He served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1836, and in the Arkansas Senate in 1840, 1842, 1846, and 1848.

In 1836 Sevier was elected as the first member of the United States Senate from Arkansas.

He became the prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County by 1836, and as a member of the Whig Party, Wade was elected to the Ohio State Senate, serving two two-year terms between 1837 and 1842.

He succeeded Andrew Jackson and served in the United States Senate, representing Tennessee, from 1825 until his resignation in 1840, and was a Whig candidate for President in 1836.

Jackson lobbied the U. S. Senate to ratify the treaty in 1836, where it passed by a majority of one vote.

Barbour was formally nominated on December 14, 1830, and two days later he was confirmed by the Senate, and received his commission, serving thereafter until March 17, 1836.

Nominated by Jackson on December 28, 1835, to a seat vacated by Gabriel Duvall, Barbour was confirmed by the Senate, and received his commission, on March 15, 1836.

He also served in row offices in Huntingdon County and then was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 1836.

John Taylor ( October 6, 1836 – February 10, 1909 ) was an American businessman and politician who served in the New Jersey Senate.

Strange was elected as a Jacksonian ( later Democrat ) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willie Person Mangum and served from December 5, 1836, to November 16, 1840, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in Fayetteville, where he died on February 19, 1854 and was buried in the family burial ground at Myrtle Hill, near Fayetteville.

Following his schooling, Abbott worked as a teacher and a lawyer, then became a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836 and a member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1841 to 1842.

In the Senate, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1836 to 1841.

James Pleasants, Jr. ( October 24, 1769November 9, 1836 ) was an American politician who served in the U. S. Senate from 1819 to 1822 and was the 22nd Governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825.

He became politically prominent during the nullification crisis, and from 1836 to 1845 he sat in the United States Senate as a Unionist Democrat.

After retiring from the Senate, Anderson was appointed Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury by President James Madison, and served in that office from 1815 until 1836.

Armstrong continued in his successful printing business, being elected Mayor of Boston in 1836 and to the Massachusetts Senate in 1839

His career as an artist began when his father — the owner of several businesses, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine ( ancient Free and Accepted Masons ) ( 1836 – 1844 ), and Secretary of State for Maine ( 1840 )— was appointed by US President James Polk, after his patron the Governor of Maine John Fairfield entered the US Senate, as Chief Clerk in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair of the Navy Department.

He was a member of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1821, 1822, 1824, and 1834 – 1836, serving as the youngest-ever speaker in 1822 and 1836, and he served in the Alabama State Senate in 1825.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration.

Johnson succeeded in getting the bank appointments he wanted, in return for his endorsement of John Bell for one of the state's U. S. Senate seats.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

On this occasion the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the government of Gough Whitlam when the Senate withheld Supply to the government, even though Whitlam retained the confidence of the House of Representatives.

In October the government became embroiled in another embarrassing controversy over the alleged misuse of VIP aircraft, which came to a head when John Gorton ( Government Leader in the Senate ) tabled documents which showed that Holt had unintentionally misled Parliament in his earlier answers on the matter.

The state's senior ( Class II ) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

* John Ford ( Oklahoma politician ) ( born 1945 ), American political figure ; elected 2004 as Republican member of Oklahoma State Senate ; chairman of Education Committee

John Quincy Adams was elected a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in April 1802.

* John M. Walker ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1905 – 1976 ), former member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, Allegheny County Commissioner and lieutenant gubernatorial nominee

In 1994 Ashcroft was elected to the U. S. Senate from Missouri, again succeeding a retiring John Danforth.

But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.

In the United States, the Senate approved the treaty overwhelmingly, 85 – 1, with only Wisconsin Republican John J. Blaine voting against.

The concept of super-stare decisis ( or " super-precedent ") was mentioned during the interrogations of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

* Senator the Hon John Herron, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs to the Senate Legal And Constitutional References Committee, " Inquiry Into The Stolen Generation " Federal Government Submission, March 2000

Senator John Kerry's 1988 U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on links between the Contras and drug imports to the US concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.