The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

In October 1823 Polk voted for Andrew Jackson to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

Image: Andrew_Jackson. jpg | Senator Andrew Jackson of Tennessee

Image: Andrew_Jackson. jpg | Senator Andrew Jackson of Tennessee

* Andrew Jackson ( Tennessee ), former Senator

* Andrew Johnson, Senator from Tennessee

Andrew Johnson was nominated over three other War Democrats: former New York Senator Daniel S. Dickinson, Buchanan cabinet member Joseph Holt, and General Benjamin F. Butler.

In 2010 Andrew Cuomo lost by a wide margin while Senator Chuck Schumer carried it by a narrow margin of 49. 46 % to Jay Townsend's 48. 86 % a margin of 78 votes.

In 2010, Republican Carl Paladino carried Cattaraugus County over Democrat ( and eventual winner ) Andrew Cuomo 65 % to 31 %, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Senator Chuck Schumer, both incumbent Democrats, carried the county by 51 % to 46 % and 54 % to 43 % margins respectively.

On March 3, 1862, Lincoln installed a loyalist Democrat Senator Andrew Johnson, as Military Governor with the rank of Brigadier General in his home state of Tennessee.

* Andrew Jackson Houston, 1854-1941 ( U. S. Senator from Texas )

William Henry Seward ( May 16, 1801October 10, 1872 ) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.

Jackson County was organized on December 15, 1826 and named for Andrew Jackson, U. S. Senator ( and later President ) from Tennessee.

It was named in honor of a U. S. Senator from South Carolina, Andrew Butler ( 1796 – 1857 ), who was one of the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a slave state.

Among the political Seviers were Louisiana State Senator Andrew L. Sevier, who served from 1932 until his death in 1962, and State Representative Henry Clay " Happy " Sevier, Sr., whose tenure extended from 1932 to 1952.

* Isaac Hill ( 1788 – 1851 ), NH State Representative, NH State Senator, Comptroller of the United States Treasury in the Andrew Jackson administration, U. S. Senator from NH, and Governor of New Hampshire.

* William Henry Seward, Sr. ( May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872 ), born in Florida, was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator, and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

The statement made by " Mayor Tilman " to the FBI agents is paraphrased from a quote by U. S. Senator James Eastland, who reportedly said that when the three civil rights workers ( Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman ) went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, " the incident is a hoax and there is no Ku Klux Klan in the state ; the three have gone to Chicago ", and that it was staged by the three young men to call attention to their cause.

* Andrew Butler, U. S. Senator

Among these first adventurous individuals were F. M. Thorp and Charles Splawn, whose families had united with the marriage of Charles Splawn, a brother of Senator Andrew Jackson Splawn of Yakima, to Thorp's daughter Dulcena in 1863.

He then switches back to a consideration of the seven principal Presidential hopefuls: five Democrats -- Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Adlai E. Stevenson and Mr. Kennedy -- and two Republicans -- Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.

When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the " Yes We Can " rally at the Johnson Center atrium.

He placed his name on the ballot in the California state primary election, where he came close to beating popular Senator Hiram Johnson.

* 1968 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

People watching include Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy | Robert Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, First Lady " Lady Bird Johnson ", Rev.

* 1964 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was elected in his own right, defeating United States Senator Barry Goldwater in November.

* August 24 – 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.

** U. S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.

Support for impeachment was very high, but the result was in doubt due to forebodings about the value of President pro tempore, U. S. Senator Benjamin Wade, a Radical Republican, as successor to President Johnson.

Image: Hiram Johnson 2. jpg | Senator Hiram Johnson of California

Image: Hiram Johnson 2. jpg | Senator Hiram Johnson of California

The major candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination were Kennedy, Governor Pat Brown of California, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

Henry Wilson ( 16 February 181222 November 1875 ) was the 18th Vice President of the United States ( 1873 – 1875 ) and a Senator from Massachusetts ( 1855 – 1873 ).

* Jesse D. Bright ( 1812 – 1875 ), U. S. Marshal for Indiana ; later served as U. S. Senator for that state

* William A. Wallace-US Senator of the Democratic Party who served from 1875 to 1881.

* Hiram Bingham III ( 1875 – 1956 ) – U. S. Senator from Connecticut and explorer best known for uncovering Machu Picchu.

* William J. Johnson ( 1821 – 1875 ), New York State Senator and Civil War colonel

William Gannaway " Parson " Brownlow ( August 29, 1805April 29, 1877 ) was an American newspaper editor, minister, and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875.

* Hiram Bingham III ( 1875 – 1956 ), U. S. Senator from Connecticut and explorer best known for uncovering Machu Picchu

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

* John S. Hager ( 1868 – 1890 ), California State Senator and district judge ; United States Senator from California ( 1873 – 1875 )

On November 6, 1875, Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican and the first African-American U. S. Senator, wrote a letter to U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant that was widely reprinted.

William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804August 11, 1875 ) was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a Senator in the Confederate Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.

# William Backhouse Astor, Sr. ( 1792 – 1875 ), married Margaret Rebecca Armstrong ( 1800 – 1872 ), the daughter of United States Secretary of War and Senator John Armstrong, Jr ..

Zachariah Chandler ( December 10, 1813November 1, 1879 ) was Mayor of Detroit ( 1851 – 52 ), a four-term U. S. Senator from the state of Michigan ( 1857 – 75, 1879 ), and Secretary of the Interior under U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant ( 1875 – 77 ).

He was reelected twice and served until February 27, 1875, when he resigned to take the office of U. S. Senator.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 () was a United States federal law proposed by Senator Charles Sumner and Representative Benjamin F. Butler ( both Republicans ) in 1870.

In January 1869, he was elected a U. S. Senator from New York and served from 1869 to 1875.

Along with Republican Senator Charles Sumner, he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a seminal and far-reaching law banning racial discrimination in public accommodations.

Elected as an Anti-Monopolist, he served as a Senator from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881 ; he was not a candidate for reelection in 1880.

His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was governor of Rhode Island ( 1875 – 1877 ) and among his great-uncles were a Rhode Island governor, Charles Warren Lippitt, and United States Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt.

Denver's most illustrious native son was William Alexander Graham ( September 5, 1804 – August 11, 1875 ) who was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852.