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 Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

He was elected to the Tennessee Senate in 1841, where he served one two-year term.

Two days later the legislature elected the outgoing governor to the U. S. Senate.

In 1874, the Tennessee legislature elected him over five other candidates to the U. S. Senate.

Upon the death of the previous king, Tullus Hostilius, the Roman Senate appointed an interrex, who in turn called a session of the assembly of the people who elected the new king.

The Senate is made up of 38 members elected from regions or subregions.

The censors were also in charge of the membership roll of the Senate, every five years adding new senators who had been elected to the requisite offices.

In the United States Senate, they are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate 1983, a position he held until 1985, when he became the President of Italy.

Following his resignation as president of the Senate in 1985, Cossiga was elected President of Italy ( Head of State ).

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.

Some parallels can be drawn between the general election in parliamentary systems and the biennial elections determining all House seats, although there is no analogue to " calling early elections " in the U. S., and the members of the elected U. S. Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.

A bicameral parliament was also created, in which an elected lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies ( with one deputy for every 12, 000 people in Albania and one for the Albanian community in the United States ), appointed members of its own ranks to an upper chamber, the Senate.

Following conviction, the Senate may vote to further punish the individual by barring him from holding future federal office, elected or appointed.

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

John Quincy Adams was elected a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in April 1802.

The Massachusetts General Court elected Adams as a Federalist to the U. S. Senate soon after, and he served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party.

He took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 he was elected to the Senate of the first United States Congress, where he joined the Jeffersonians.

On September 20, 1819, Polk, with Grundy's endorsement, was elected clerk for the Tennessee State Senate.

* 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.

On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

Rejections are relatively uncommon ; the Senate has explicitly rejected twelve Supreme Court nominees, most recently Robert Bork in 1987.

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.

The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic Congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, but appeased the agrarians by placing controlling interest in the System in a central board appointed by the president with Senate approval.

* November 20 – Robert Byrd, U. S. senator from West Virginia and President pro tempore of the United States Senate ( d. 2010 )

** The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.

** On a vote of 58 – 42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

Thurmond became President pro tempore of the US Senate in 1981, and held the largely ceremonial post for three terms, alternating with his longtime rival Robert Byrd depending on the party composition of the Senate.

** Set the then-record for longest cumulative tenure in the Senate at 43 years ( 1997 ), increasing to 47 years, 6 months at his retirement in January 2003, surpassed by Robert Byrd in July 2006

Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden, John Stennis and Ted Stevens served longer in the Senate than Hollings.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Clay as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

This was revealed by a declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson released in August 2000 from Senate intelligence committee's inquiry on covert action.

Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Webster as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators with Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

He served in various positions under Robert Menzies and Harold Holt, including Minister for the Navy from 1958 – 63, Minister for Works, Minister for the Interior and Minister for Education as well as Leader of the Government in the Senate.

The late President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in office for a few months until leaving in 1964, to run for the Senate.

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