There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out, Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation ( a tactic often acceptable to the Rayburn-Johnson congressional leadership to avoid embarrassing votes ).

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

Usually five epagomenal days are included within every year ( Egyptian, Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ), but a sixth epagomenal day is intercalated every four years in some ( Coptic, Ethiopian and French Republican calendars ).

Earlier meetings of groups that later formed the Republican Party were held in Ripon, Wisconsin ; Exeter, New Hampshire ; and Crawfordsville, Iowa, and all four cities bill themselves as the " Birthplace of the Republican Party.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

The cartoon depicted four leading Republicans trying to push an elephant ( the traditional symbol of the Republican Party ) to stand on a teetering stack of ten tar buckets, the topmost of which was labeled " McCarthyism ".

The Greens now had four seats in the Assembly and sat with the PCF in the Democratic and Republican Left group.

McCormick, a vigorous campaigner for the Republican Party, died in 1955, just four days before Democratic boss Richard J. Daley was elected mayor for the first time.

Ohio County currently has four magistrates: Charles W. Murphy, Patricia Murphy, and Harry Radcliffe ( Democrats ) and Joseph Roxby ( a Republican ).

After winning four terms to the Massachusetts House of Representatives between 1962 and 1970 ( and winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970 ), Dukakis was elected governor in 1974, defeating the incumbent Republican Francis Sargent during a period of fiscal crisis.

On 5 October 1974, bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army went off in two Guildford pubs, killing four off-duty soldiers and a civilian.

This region was heavily Republican — in fact, Republicans had represented this district for all but four years since 1859, and was one of the few regions in the former Confederacy where Republicans won on a regular basis.

When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.

Emilio Mola, a Nationalist General during the Spanish Civil War, told a journalist in 1936 that as his four columns of troops approached Madrid, a " fifth column " of supporters inside the city would support him and undermine the Republican government from within.

While in the 2004 U. S. presidential election the county was carried by Republican George W. Bush by a margin of four votes, Democrat Barack Obama carried Monroe County in the 2008 U. S. presidential election by a 17 point margin, 58 % to 41 %.

Fairbanks was elected Vice President of the United States in 1904 on the Republican ticket with Theodore Roosevelt and served all four years.

Ellis County gave a plurality to Bill Clinton over Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election, but has been in the Republican column in each of the past four elections, giving 66 percent to Republican John McCain to 32 percent for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 election, higher than the 57 percent McCain won statewide.

In the last four Presidential elections, the Republican candidate has received over 60 % of the vote.

In the four elections since then, the Republican candidates has never received less than 75 % of the county's vote.

He was elected in 1870 as a Republican to the state legislature and filled four local offices with his brother and three brothers-in-law, the latter native to the parish.

As one of Kentucky's largest counties, Graves's history of legends and leaders includes a US Vice President, four US Congressmen, famous and infamous heroes, singers and songwriters, noted writers and a legacy of historic sites.

The four Congressmen also wrote House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms Wilson Livingood a letter the same day asking that he work with members of the House Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Intelligence Committees to determine if CAIR was successful in placing interns in the committees ' offices, to review FBI and DOJ evidence regarding CAIR's Hamas ties, and to determine whether CAIR is a security threat.

The spectacular Mays, who reaches a decade in the big leagues come May 25, joined six other sluggers who walloped four home runs in a span of nine innings.

Just four credits short of earning a degree, Bixby dropped out of college and joined the United States Marine Corps after being drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

Later, during the first four years of Henry II's reign, all three siblings joined Eleanor's royal household.

* The Scaled Composites Model 367 BiPod is a developmental hybrid using joined fuselages, and twin combustion engines powering four 15 kW electric propellers.

In May 1884 Koechlin, working at his home, made an outline drawing of their scheme, described by him as " a great pylon, consisting of four lattice girders standing apart at the base and coming together at the top, joined together by metal trusses at regular intervals ".

For much of the 20th century most scholars agreed that the five books of the Pentateuch — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy — came from four sources, the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source, each telling the same basic story, and joined together by various editors.

During November 1870 the four southern states joined the North German Confederation by treaty.

After working as a clerk for four months, he joined the crew of the frigate, which reached Boston in October 1844.

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

It begins with a marking of half-notes ( woodblock, soon joined by the four trumpets ) and eighths ( clarinets and synthesizers ); the ( amplified ) woodblock is fortissimo and the other instruments play forte.

These were joined by four L-39C Albatros aircraft purchased from Kazakhstan as part of the intended 16 to be used by the 1st fighter ( training ) squadron.

During the four years that the plan was operational, US $ 13 billion in economic and technical assistance was given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation.

The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, consists of four red maple leaves joined at the stem on a white field (" Argent four maple leaves conjoined in cross at the stem Gules "); the augmentation has, so far, been granted either as a canton sinister or centred in the chief.

In 1969, the San Diego Padres joined the ranks of Major League Baseball as one of four new expansion teams, along with the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals ), the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots ( now the Milwaukee Brewers ).

They were joined by then-Congressman Steve Largent, who represented the newest inductees to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ; of the four others who had been named to Hall's Class of 1995, two of them, Lee Roy Selmon and Kellen Winslow were also in attendance.

Large numbers of semi-armed civilians joined the revolt and put the Guard garrisons of the latter four cities under siege.

For example, four such concave pentagons can be joined together to make one with twice the dimensions.

Also of note is that there are many more people who identify as UU on surveys than those who attend UU churches ( by a factor of four in a recent survey ), reflecting those who have never joined ( and lapsed members ) but nonetheless consider themselves part of the UU movement.

When the WHA folded, the Oilers joined the NHL, where he established many scoring records and led his team to four Stanley Cup championships.

The same success was not immediate when they joined the NHL, but within four seasons, the Oilers were competing for the Stanley Cup.

After more than four years of trench warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead, those powers who had formed the Triple Entente ( France, Britain, and Russia, later replaced by the United States and joined by Italy ) emerged victorious over the Central Powers ( Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire ).

The pieces of the Soma cube consist of all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at their faces, such that at least one inside corner is formed.

That summer, workers from Handyfat Trading joined the IWW, and were soon followed by workers from four more warehouses.