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In the Senate pre-selection Convention in the Sydney Trades Hall in April 1960, with backing from Ray Geitzelt ( but lacking factional endorsement ) and with the luck of drawing first in addressing the delegates, Murphy won support with an impassioned but well structured and infectiously optimistic seven minute speech on the Labor Party's historical commitment to civil liberties and human rights.
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Senate and pre-selection
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An outspoken campaigner on women's issues, Allison won pre-selection on the Democrats ticket, and was elected to the Australian Senate in 1996 and re-elected for a second term in 2001.
Wong ran for pre-selection for the Senate in 2001, and was selected for the top position on the Labor Party's South Australian ticket.
After Simon Crean's win in the Hotham pre-selection, where Conroy supported Martin Pakula for the position, Crean attacked Conroy repeatedly, calling on him to resign his position as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
Prior to the pre-selection of Handshin, No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon had been considering running in the seat as an independent, before deciding to run for the Senate instead.
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Senate and Convention
On August 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon formally transmitted the Biological Weapons Convention to the United States Senate for ratification.
In his transmittal, he states: " I am transmitting herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons, and on their Destruction, opened for signature at Washington, London and Moscow on April 10, 1972.
On 31 October 2007 the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, by a vote of 17 to 4, recommended ratification, and President George W. Bush publicly supported U. S. accession to the Convention ; no date has yet been set for action by the full Senate.
James Wilson, the only member of the Constitutional Convention ( United States ) | Constitutional Convention who supported electing the United States Senate by popular vote.
Dole resigned his Senate seat on June 11 and the Republican National Convention formally nominated Dole on August 15, 1996 as the GOP's nominee for President.
Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention gave each state a number of presidential electors equal to that state's combined share of House and Senate seats.
Thompson blamed Ruth Hanna McCormick's lack of support for his loss at the 1928 Republican National Convention, and he returned the favor during her 1930 campaign for the United States Senate.
Initially, Humphrey's support of civil rights led to his being ostracized by Southern Democrats, who dominated most of the Senate leadership positions and who wanted to punish Humphrey for proposing the successful civil rights platform at the 1948 Convention.
Convention allows the Prime Minister in the House, and the Leader of the Government in the Senate, to terminate question time by asking that " further questions be placed on the Notice Paper ".
* William Blount-Delegate to the Philadelphia Convention and Senator for Tennessee who was expelled from the Senate.
* July 2005: EPIC testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in opposition to the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.
Prior to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, Wallace and his aides Bill Jones and Seymore Trammell met in the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery with Alabama Republican leader James D. Martin, who had narrowly lost the U. S. Senate election in 1962 to J. Lister Hill.
Robinson gained influence in the Senate and later served as Chairman of the 1920 Democratic National Convention.
He was a member of the Vermont Constitutional Convention in 1843, and served as State ’ s attorney, as a member of the Vermont Senate, the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and a delegate to the 1856 Democratic National Convention.
An influential member of the state's Constitutional Convention, he was elected as a member of the first session of the State Senate in 1850.
Henry Simpson Johnston ( December 30, 1867 – January 7, 1965 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, the first President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate, and the seventh Governor of Oklahoma.
The Romanian Democratic Convention emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 122 of the 343 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 53 of the 143 seats in the Senate.
He served as prosecutor, judge, mayor of Havana, secretary of the Constitutional Convention, Senator 1905, president of the Senate 1906, vice-president 1908 – 1913 and President of Cuba from May 20, 1921 to May 20, 1925.
He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress, the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the U. S. Senate.
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* Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan of Texas, the first African-American congresswoman to come from the Deep South and the first woman ever elected to the Texas Senate, who had received widespread recognition as a key member of the House Judiciary Committee during President Nixon's impeachment, delivered the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.
In the Senate, Wright served as delegate to the Farmers ’ National Convention in 1803.
Senate and Sydney
During this enquiry, the Senate of the University of Sydney put in a submission which highlighted ‘ the immediate need to establish a third university in the metropolitan area ’.
In April 2007 Bashir was elected by the University Senate to take up a four-year appointment as Chancellor of the University of Sydney on 1 June 2007.
At a meeting of the University of Sydney Senate in May 2012, Bashir announced her intention to retire as Chancellor.
Despite acquiring almost all the land necessary for the building of the Badgerys Creek airport, and multiple studies and reports commissioned that recommend building the airport, in 1995 new airport leasing legislation was blocked in the Australian Senate, and construction was delayed until after the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
" Sydney Morning Herald ( 2007 ) Backpackers fake Aboriginal art, Senate told
Bares had been supported by Roemer as Senate president over Sydney B. Nelson of Shreveport, who had been politicking behind the scenes for months for the position.
He was born in Sydney, the son of Doug McClelland, who was a Senator for New South Wales 1962 – 87, a minister in the Whitlam government and President of the Senate 1983 – 87.
It was flown within each State Parliament building in Australia, the Federal Senate, and most prominently atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
* On the Senate of Sydney University 2009 – 2013 ;
He was a member of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1851-61 and his brother John helped to select its academic staff.
Willis served as a Fellow of University of Sydney Senate in 1972.
* Bohdan Bilinsky – Lawyer and legal academic, Fellow of Senate, University of Sydney and Honorary Fellow of the University.
Donald MacLennan Grant ( 26 February 1888 – 11 June 1970 ) was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, Australia, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and elected to the Australian Senate in 1943 where he served for sixteen years.
On 23 October 1867, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by royal proclamation, where he sat as a Liberal-Conservative representing the senatorial division of North Sydney until his death.
For four years he was an elected Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney.
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