In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

The House of Representatives has 18 members, elected for a two year term, 17 in single-seat constituencies and one by a public meeting on Swain Island.

He was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served a total of five terms.

In addition, owing to the city's legal status, citizens of West Berlin were unable to vote in elections to the Bundestag, and were instead represented by 20 non-voting delegates, indirectly elected by the city's House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives was elected on the basis of separate voters ' rolls.

Atchison was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1834.

When the United States ( US ) government was formed in 1789, Boudinot was elected from New Jersey to the US House of Representatives.

* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

In 1916, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he had a reputation as a fiery and devoted reformer.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

The 695-member MPR includes all 550 members of the People's Representative Council ( DPR ) ( the House of Representatives ) plus 130 " regional representatives " elected by the twenty-six provincial parliaments and sixty-five appointed members from societal groups

A permanent 275-member Council of Representatives was elected in the December 2005 Iraqi legislative elections, initiating the formation of the Government of Iraq, 2006-2010.

The President, Prime Minister and Ministers of the region are elected by simple majority, in contrast to the Iraqi Council of Representatives which requires two thirds support.

* 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

He was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives as a State Representative in 1970 at the age of 22.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

* John Brown ( Australian politician ) ( born 1931 ), elected to the Australian House of Representatives, 1977 – 1990

The Assembly is composed of 120 Representatives, who are elected for a period of four years.

The president is elected by the House of Representatives for a five-year term.

It began when the government introduced a law permitting the formation of other political parties, announced that it would be prepared to share power with representatives of opposition groups in the event of a coalition government, and issued a new constitution providing for a new bicameral National Assembly ( Meli Shura ), consisting of a Senate ( Sena ) and a House of Representatives ( Wolesi Jirga ), and a president to be indirectly elected to a 7-year term.

The House of Representatives consisted of 205 members directly elected by the people.

The National Council had 60 members, 10 nominated by the king, 35 elected by the House of Representatives and the remaining 15 elected by an electoral college made up of chairs of villages and towns.

Bono was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994 to represent California's 44th congressional district.

" The Supreme Court, as well as other federal courts, have repeatedly barred states from additional restrictions, such as imposing term limits on members of Congress, allowing members of Congress to be subject to recall elections, or requiring that Representatives live in the congressional district in which they represent.

Johnson entered politics in 1804, when he was elected to represent Scott County in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

The following are some of the early citizens elected to represent St. Francois County in the Missouri House of Representatives: Henry Poston ( 1826 ); David Murphy ( 1828 ); Corbin Alexander ( 1830, 1832 ).

* Finly H. Gray was a US Congressman elected to represent Indiana's 6th and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1911 to 1917 and 1933 to 1939.

The town sends four delegates to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, each of whom represent one or more of Chelmsford's nine precincts.

So was Prentiss Walker, the first Republican to represent Mississippi in the U. S. House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

A Republican, Harris won the 2002 election to represent Florida's 13th congressional district in the U. S. House of Representatives.

In recent years, some international organizations, such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or the European Union, have designated their Permanent Representatives in third countries as Ambassadors, although they do not represent sovereign entities.

That year, Cochran and Trent Lott ( who later served alongside him in the U. S. Senate ) became the second and third Republicans to represent Mississippi in the House of Representatives since Reconstruction.

* While members of the United States House of Representatives are only required to live in the state they represent, it has long been expected that they live in the district they represent as well.

The upper House — the Senate — would represent the states equally, while the House of Representatives would be elected from districts of approximately equal population.

Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.

He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional District, and he served for 13 years.

Akaka was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1976 to represent Hawaii's Second Congressional District.

The lower house, the House of Representatives, currently consists of 150 members, who represent districts known as electoral divisions ( commonly referred to as " electorates " or " seats ").

The Resident Commissioners of the Philippines were sent by the Philippines to the United States House of Representatives from 1907 until 1946 to represent the island state, which was a U. S. territory from 13 August 1898 ( on 15 November 1935 it became the Commonwealth of the Philippines ).

He easily won the general election, and began to represent in north-central Iowa in the United States House of Representatives in 1889.

She served one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973, becoming the first female Democrat to represent Massachusetts in the House.

In 1791, he was chosen to represent the town of New Haven in the General Assembly ( Connecticut State House of Representatives ), and was annually re-elected for six years, until 1797, when he was chosen a member of the Connecticut State Council, or Upper House.

In 1944, Powell ran on a platform of civil rights for African Americans: support for " fair employment practices, and a ban on poll taxes and lynching ," and was elected as a Democrat to represent the Congressional District that included Harlem in the U. S. House of Representatives.

In 2002 Beauprez ran to represent Colorado's 7th congressional district in the U. S. House of Representatives, regarded as a " swing " district.