For that reason, they contend Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman presidential candidate ; she was nominated at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

** U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus " out just one of our two parents ".

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

* Margaret Reynolds, former Australian Senator

* Margaret Chase Smith ( 1897 – 1995 ), United States Senator from Maine

No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith ( 2000 )

In opposition, Lenihan and Haughey attracted some international criticism when, against the advice of senior Irish-American politicians Senator Edward Kennedy and Speaker Tip O ' Neill, they campaigned against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which the government of Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British government of Margaret Thatcher and which gave the Republic an advisory role in the governance of Northern Ireland.

In 1818 William Backhouse Astor married Margaret Rebecca Armstrong ( 1800 – 1872 ), the daughter of United States Secretary of War and Senator John Armstrong, Jr.

McCallum then selected State Senator Margaret Farrow of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, to be his new lieutenant governor.

Over time, the marriage disintegrated to the point that, as recounted in her book, Margaret had an affair with U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith ( 2000 )

Susan Margaret Collins ( born December 7, 1952 ) is the junior United States Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party.

During her senior year of high school in 1971, Collins was chosen to participate in the U. S. Senate Youth Program, through which she visited Washington, D. C., for the first time and engaged in a two-hour conversation with U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith ( R-ME ).

* In 1964, a write-in campaign organized by supporters of former U. S. Senator and vice presidential nominee Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. won Republican primaries for President in New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, defeating declared candidates Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Margaret Chase Smith.

He defeated renowned incumbent U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith in 1972, but was defeated for reelection in 1978 by Republican Congressman William Cohen.

# 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 ..

1988-1990 saw 3AK again become a purely talk format station, with such high profile names as Darren James ( with Bruce Mansfield as Uncle Roy ), Margaret Peacock, Don Chipp ( a former Federal Liberal Party Minister and later the founder of and Senator for the Australian Democrats ), Peter O ' Callaghan ( an ex 3XY and EON FM DJ ), Keith McGowan and Bill Howie ( a former 3AK Programme Director ).

On 5 May 1981, Margaret Reid was elected by a joint sitting of the Australian Parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the representation of the Australian Capital Territory in the Senate, following the sudden death of her close friend, Senator John Knight.

* when Margaret Reid was elected on 5 May 1981 to replace the deceased ACT Senator John Knight

Descendants of John and Margaretta Brown include Senator Benjamin Gratz Brown, the 20th Governor of Missouri and Vice Presidential candidate in the 1872 election, and children's author Margaret Wise Brown.

* Margaret O ' Neill Eaton, American woman ( wife of a United States Senator ) involved in the " Petticoat Affair "

The Theodor Herzl Mission, co-sponsored by the Mayor of Jerusalem, has brought international leaders to Israel such as Lady Margaret Thatcher, U. S. Senator John Kerry, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Elie Wiesel.

* November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U. S. Senator ( b. 1737 )

* Richard Henry Lee, a signer of United States Declaration of Independence, United States Senator, and the sixth president of the United States in Congress Assembled ( under the Articles of Confederation )

Pendleton was also involved in the education of at least two nephews, John Penn ( signer of the Declaration of Independence ) and John Taylor of Caroline, U. S. Senator.

Patricia Neal dramatized Senator Smith's Declaration of Conscience speech in the 1978 television movie Tail Gunner Joe.

He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U. S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U. S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of Delaware.

Lincoln contrasted his support for the Declaration with opposing statements made by the Southern politician John C. Calhoun and Senator John Pettit of Indiana, who called the Declaration " a self-evident lie.

He was born at Morven, Stockton Street, Princeton, New Jersey into a political family ; his father Richard Stockton was a U. S. Senator and Representative, and his grandfather, Judge Richard Stockton was Attorney General for New Jersey and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

He was grandson of the first popularly-elected Maryland U. S. Senator, Blair Lee I ; direct descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee ; and also Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair, an adviser and friend of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.

She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and the co-organizer ( with Senator Martin Mejstřík ) of its preceding conference.

Rutherfurd was born in Morrisania, New York to Robert Walter Rutherfurd and Sabina Morris, and was the grandson of U. S. Senator John Rutherfurd and great-grandson of Lewis Morris, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

He presided over the Constitutional Assembly, which drafted Mexico's Declaration of Independence in 1813, and served as a Legislator, Senator, and Secretary of State numerous times.

St. Philip's graveyard is the final resting place of Edward Rutledge, the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U. S. Senator and Vice President John C. Calhoun, whose body was exumed during the Civil War and buried near the church in an unmarked grave.

* Philip A. Hart, United States Senator from Michigan, 1959 – 1976, nicknamed the Conscience of the Senate

William Seward was elected as U. S. Senator from New York as a Whig in 1849, and emerged as the leader of the anti-slavery " Conscience Whigs ".

The Conscience of a Conservative is a book published under the name of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1960.

Senator Paul Wellstone's 2001 autobiography was entitled Conscience of a Liberal.

Senator Zell Miller's 2003 critique of the Democratic Party, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat also draws the inspiration for its title from Goldwater's work.

The conservatives united behind the unsuccessful 1964 presidential campaign of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater ( 1919 – 1998 ), who had published The Conscience of a Conservative ( 1960 ), a best-selling book that explained modern conservative theory.