After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature re-elected Douglas to the Senate.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

Violence on behalf of Southern honor reached the floor of the Senate when a Southern Congressmen nearly beat to death Republican Charles Sumner when he ridiculed prominent slaveholders as pimps for slavery.

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 election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House ( by eight votes ) and in the Senate ( actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote ).

Eisenhower had a Republican Congress for only his first two years in office ; in the Senate, the Republican majority was by a one vote margin.

However, Republican Dino Rossi narrowly carried the city over Democratic Senator Patty Murray in the 2010 Senate race with 50. 7 percent of the vote to Murray's 49. 3 percent.

* 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U. S. Congress.

Cleveland faced a Republican Senate and often resorted to using his veto powers.

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

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

Republican Senate candidate Michael Huffington had also endorsed the proposition.

This is said to have been Dole's most crushing political defeat and to have contributed to the Republican loss of control of the Senate.

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

Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement.

The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in the 24th district of the Michigan Senate, which is currently represented by Republican state senator Rick Jones.

Paris is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Kevin Eltife, District 1, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Erwin Cain, District 3.

* Terry L. Punt ( born 1949 ), Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Bono ran for the Republican nomination for United States Senate in 1992, but the nomination went to the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat Barbara Boxer.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Lyman Trumbull ( Republican, Illinois ), became involved in merging different proposals for an amendment.

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.

* 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.

The Floor Leaders are referred to as the Senate Majority Leader, who belongs to the party with the most Senators, and the Senate Minority Leader, who belongs to the other major party.

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.

He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 1984 and served there until elected governor in 1990.

Posthumus later went on to be elected State Senator, Senate Majority Leader and Lieutenant Governor.

Senate Majority Leader Dole and Gingrich appointed Kemp to head a tax reform commission, ( the Kemp Commission ), in response to voter concern that the tax code had become too complicated.

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

" U. S. legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, also condemned both the burning and the violence in reaction to it.

Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.

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.

On November 7, 1983, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.

Willkie left the selection of the candidate for Vice President to convention chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

** Harry Reid, American politician and U. S. Senate Majority Leader

* October 9 – Trent Lott, former United States Senate Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority Leader

* December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

After recovering from his health problems, Dirksen was elected to the Senate in 1950 when he unseated Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas.

Dirksen successfully united the various factions of the Republican Party by granting younger Republicans more representation in the Senate leadership and better committee appointments.

In 1972, one of the Senate's buildings was renamed the Dirksen Senate Office Building in his honor.

* Hulsey, Byron C. Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics.

* Abstract of Byron C. Hulsey, Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: how a Senate giant shaped American politics U. Kansas, 2000.

In 1960, an operator-controlled monorail was installed for the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The Dirksen monorail, which had been extended to the Hart Senate Office Building in 1982, was replaced in 1993 by an automatic train.

The other is a computer-controlled system with three trains of three cars each that connects the Hart Senate Office Building, Dirksen Senate Office Building, and the Capitol.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, restrictions have been placed on visitors using the Senate subway between the Hart and Dirksen buildings.

On June 13, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Senate Minority Leader, and Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader, both voiced support for the president's bill except for provisions guaranteeing equal access to places of public accommodations.

Small electric tramways run from the Capitol building to the Russell, Dirksen, and Hart Senate Office Buildings and to the Rayburn House Office Building.

Election-eve publication of stolen secret committee documents hurt the Democratic Party in Cook County, cost Lucas the election, and gave Dirksen national prominence as the man who defeated the Senate majority leader.

Situated the farthest from the Capitol, the Hart Building was connected underground to an extension of the existing Capitol Subway to the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

* Dirksen Senate Office Building

He became the first senator from Illinois to serve as a Senate Whip since Everett Dirksen did so in the late 1950s, and the fifth to serve in Senate Leadership.

** Dirksen Senate Office Building

Baker's late first wife, Joy, who died of cancer, was the daughter of former Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen.

Sun Myung Moon in a religious ceremony at the Dirksen Senate Office Building honoring the controversial spiritual leader.

* Traces of ricin are found in the mailroom of a Dirksen Senate Office Building.

In 1959, he challenged Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen to become the Republican floor leader in the Senate, but lost by four votes.