Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U. S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow.

During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator Joseph L. Bristow cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned over to one of his clerks and said, " What this country needs is more of this ; what this country needs is more of that.

In 1863, Bristow was elected Kentucky state Senator serving only one term.

On September 23, 1863 Col. Bristow, was honorably discharged from service in the Union Army ; having been elected Kentucky State Senator by Christian County.

Bristow had not known he had been elected and served one term as State Senator until 1865, having resigned office.

Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson ( 1913 – 21 ), was performing his duty of presiding over the U. S. Senate when Kansas Senator Joseph L. Bristow gave a long speech entitled " What This Country Needs.

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.

In 1968, Lancaster actively supported the presidential candidacy of antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, and frequently spoke on his behalf during the Democratic primaries.

LaGuardia supported Roosevelt, chairing the Independent Committee for Roosevelt and Wallace with Senator George Norris during the 1940 presidential election.

Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.

* On March 30, 2000, with Senator Russ Feingold, Ashcroft convened the only Senate hearing on racial profiling, where he stated that racial profiling is unconstitutional and said that he supported the concept of legislation requiring that statistics be kept of police actions.

This theory is supported by a reference within the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " United ": Senator Vrax refers to Vulcans as " our distant brothers " during the first part of the episode.

Democratic Senator Mike Monroney of Oklahoma supported the idea of concessional lending and entertained the idea of the IBRD conducting such lending.

The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

Consistent with his work for liberal causes, Newman publicly supported Ned Lamont's candidacy in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic Primary against Senator Joe Lieberman, and was even rumored as a candidate himself, until Lamont emerged as a credible alternative.

Later, as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator George McGovern to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal that was supported by Kansas farmers.

Senator Robert Menendez ( D-NJ ) introduced the amendment symbolically at the end of the 111th Congress and has supported it in the 112th Congress.

However, the proposed campsite is already part of a dam-building graft scheme included in an appropriations bill framed by the Taylor " political machine " and supported by Senator Paine.

CellAntenna lost its case, but as a response have supported legislation ( The Safe Prisons Communications Act ) sponsored by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Representative Kevin Bradley ; the bill attempting to amend the Communications Act of 1934 was left in committee in the House.

But Warren had to head off a revolt by Senator Richard M. Nixon, who supported General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On multiple occasions, Senator Coats supported gun control measures.

The chief Republican spokesman Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg strongly supported Truman and overcame the doubts of isolationists such as Senator Robert A. Taft.

In 2008, 91. 7 % of voters supported Senator John McCain, whereas only 7. 8 % of voters supported Senator Barack Obama.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.

there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --

Also attending the same meeting were Senator Dick Durbin and John Boehner ; the same day ( trade effective the next day ), Durbin sold mutual-fund shares worth $ 42, 696, and reinvested it all with Warren Buffett.

" Senator Barry Goldwater noted that Conservatives " believed the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded was antithetical to all the Judeo-Christian understandings which are the foundations upon which the Republic stands.

The provision provoked a storm of controversy which within a year led Senator Hatch to propose, and Congress to pass, an amendment to delete from the statute all reference to secular humanism.

That is to say, an amendment that changed this clause to provide that all states would get only one Senator ( or three Senators, or any other number ) could be ratified through the normal process, but an amendment that provided for some basis of representation other than strict numerical equality ( for example, population, wealth, or land area ) would require the assent of every state.

Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin asserted that all Native Americans were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, so that the phrase " Indians not taxed " would be preferable, but Trumbull and Howard disputed this, arguing that the U. S. government did not have full jurisdiction over Native American tribes, which govern themselves and make treaties with the United States.

Only a few reached their targets, and not all exploded when opened, though some people suffered injuries, including a housekeeper in Senator Thomas W. Hardwick's residence, who had her hands blown off.

* Senator John Bell ( with the assent of Texas ) in February 1850: New Mexico would get all Texas land north of the 34th parallel north ( including today's Texas Panhandle ), and the area to the south ( including the southeastern part of today's New Mexico ) would be divided at the Colorado River of Texas into two Southern states, balancing the admission of California and New Mexico as free states.

" According to those accounts, Senator Margaret Guilfoyle laughed and said to a colleague, " That's all he knows.

He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States: Representative, Senator, Vice President, and President.

The Senator pointed out that during the first year of the tariff the cost of living climbed higher than any other year except during the war, presenting a survey of the Department of Labor, in which all of 32 cities assessed had seen an increase in the cost of living.

Out of all Senator Jeff's difficulties there has been evolved the importance of a democracy and there is splendidly emphasized the rich and glorious heritage which is ours and which comes when you have a government ' of the people, by the people, and for the people.

In addition to the normal application process, all candidates must secure a nomination to the Academy, normally from a U. S. Senator or U. S. Representative.

* He was featured as Kansas Senator on the cover of Time magazine, 20 December 1926 and 18 June 1928 ; and as Vice President on the cover of Time, 5 December 1932 ; all with accompanying articles.

Conversely, the county lies entirely within New Jersey's 1st Legislative District, which is currently represented by Senator Jeff Van Drew and Assemblymen Nelson T. Albano and Matthew W. Milam, all Democrats.

The city is represented in the state senate by State Senator Earl Garrison ( D-Muskogee ), in Senate District 9, which includes all of Muskogee County, Oklahoma.

In the 2006 mid-term elections, Ed Rendell ( Governor ), Bob Casey ( U. S. Senator ) and Chris King ( Pennsylvania's 142nd Representative District ), who are all Democrats won the township.

In early August 1794, Washington dispatched three commissioners, all of them Pennsylvanians, to the west: Attorney General William Bradford, Justice Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Senator James Ross.

At the urging of New Hampshire Senator John P. Hale, the United States " Congress banned flogging on all U. S. ships in September 1850.

On October 22, 1999, Senator Gramm and the Clinton Administration agreed a bank holding company could only become a “ financial holding company ” ( and thereby enjoy the new authority to affiliate with insurance and securities firms ) if all its bank subsidiaries had at least a “ satisfactory ” CRA rating.

On 3 August 2004, shortly before the settlement, Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa, sent a letter to GSK, stating that he was concerned that " some drug companies " may not have provided the FDA with all the information at their disposal.

When it came time for newspapers to make their op-ed endorsements, all 22 of Florida's major daily newspapers supported Senator Nelson.

Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, originally wanted to ask for $ 2 billion, or alternatively the ceding of all of Canada to the United States.