At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

The last not to name a Vice Presidential choice, leaving the matter up to the convention, was Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1956.

Smith referred to Nixon's " last press conference " after his disastrous losing campaign against Democrat Edmund G. " Pat " Brown, Sr., for governor of California.

This was the last election in which a candidate who was not a Republican or Democrat came second in either the popular vote or the Electoral College, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous United States participated.

The last major instance where a representative voted for the other party's candidate was in 2000, when Democrat Jim Traficant of Ohio voted for Republican Dennis Hastert.

In the last of these, Cattaraugus County's votes proved pivotal in the 2008 elections: incumbent Republican Randy Kuhl, who had strongly carried the county in 2004 and 2006, lost Cattaraugus County to Democrat Eric Massa in the 2008 elections.

The last Democrat prior to Obama was Bill Clinton who carried it with a purality each time.

" This 1992 re-election victory was the last time a Democrat won a statewide race in Ohio until 2006 ; DeWine later won Metzenbaum's seat upon his retirement.

During his last Senate term, he served as President pro tempore of the Senate since he was the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate.

The last time the county went for the Democratic candidate for President was when it favored incumbent Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 over Kansas Governor Alf Landon.

The last Democrat to carry the county was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, when the GOP standard bearer was Kansas Governor Alf Landon.

The last Democrat to carry the county was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

In the last thirteen Presidential elections Jimmy Carter was the only Democrat to carry the county.

In the last century the only Democrat to lose the county was George McGovern.

Lewisham Deptford has been one of Labour's safest London seats for many years-it was the party's 25th safest in the entire country at the 2001 election-though social change in the last decade has seen things become a little more competitive, with an active Liberal Democrat party in the area.

The last member to represent only Tensas Parish was Democrat S. S. DeWitt ( 1914 – 1998 ) of Newellton and later St. Joseph.

The last member to represent only Tensas Parish was Democrat S. S. DeWitt ( 1914 – 1998 ) of Newellton and later St. Joseph.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 74 % of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received 16 % ( Independent Ralph Nader received the last 10 %).

The first was Washington's Tom Foley, the last Democrat to hold the post before Pelosi.

One of the most prominent self-styled Reagan Democrats includes Virginia Senator Jim Webb, whom columnist David Paul Kuhn asserts is the quintessential Reagan Democrat and one of the last of an ' endangered species ' within the Democratic Party.

The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.

Brooke would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993, and was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until the 2010 election of Scott Brown.

The Republican People's Party ( CHP ), Turkey's principal center-left party has a traditionally strong presence across the political landscape of Muğla Province, closely followed by the traditional center-right represented by the Democrat Party ( DP ) in Turkey's politics, although the incumbent Justice and Development Party ( AKP ) obtained the first place in the ballots cast during the last national-scale elections that were the 2004 local elections, with 31, 25 % of the votes.

When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle.

Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

The Toronto Blue Jays are the only team to have never played in the ALDS and are the last team to win the World Series under the old 4 division format.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.

He took his last win in the opening race of the 1970 season and was competitive throughout the year, although mechanical failures blunted his challenge.

It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.

The last Cowboys game with Tom Landry as coach was a win over Washington on December 11, 1988.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

His designs were the last British ones to win a Grand Prix.

With Milan, Baresi won six scudetti ( Serie A league titles ) and three European Cups – though he did not take part in the last win, his club's 1994 Champions League victory, through suspension.

The Marlins are also the last team to win a World Series at the Old Yankee Stadium.

England ultimately joined Brazil in the last eight after a win in the final group game against Czechoslovakia.

It looked like a 3 – 2 win for England with Hurst as the hero with the winning goal but in the last seconds, as the Germans were pushing everyone forward to seek the equalizer, Moore cleared his lines with a long ball over the German defence.

In an attempt to win last minute votes from moderate pro-democracy lawmakers, the government amended its reform package on 19 December by proposing a gradual cut in the number of district council members appointed by the Chief Executive.

Three years later Unitas would end his NFL career by starting four games for the 1973 Chargers ; his last win was a 34-7 win over the Bills.

He is to date, the last Conservative leader to win an outright majority in a general election.

Going into the last round Polgár needed only a draw to achieve the GM title, but she won her game against GM Tibor Tolnai to win first place with six points in nine games.

She secured a clear third place with a 21-move win over Shirov in her last game.

An accomplished career saw him making 55 further appearances ( the last 22 as captain ) for the national side, with perhaps his best game being 1958 at Wembley Stadium when he scored a hat-trick against the Soviet Union in a 5-0 win.

On the last day of the league season, his goal in a 1 – 0 away win over Chelsea gave Liverpool their 16th league title.

Iván Rodríguez won for the Texas Rangers in 1999, previous to that, the last catcher to win an AL MVP was the New York Yankees Thurman Munson in 1976.

Using an updated ' C ' version on the M7, a further three podium finishes followed for Bruce in, but the team's fifth win had to wait until the last race of the 1969 championship when Hulme won the Mexican Grand Prix.

However, they would fall victim to the Dallas Cowboys in week 14, going on to end the season with a 3 game losing streak ( Saints became the first team to win a Super Bowl after losing its last three regular season games ).