As of 2011, its state senator is Republican Janéa Holmquist Newbry, and its two state representatives are Republicans Judy Warnick and Bill Hinkle.

Doom prompted fears that the then-emerging virtual reality technology could be used to simulate extremely realistic killing, and in 1994 led to unsuccessful attempts by Washington state senator Phil Talmadge to introduce compulsory licensing of VR use.

As a senator, he argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.

At the state level, Lansing is located in the 23rd district of the Michigan Senate, which has been represented by Democratic state senator Gretchen Whitmer since January 1, 2007.

The small portion of the city that extends into Eaton County is located in the 24th district of the Michigan Senate, which is currently represented by Republican state senator Rick Jones.

While the PDP Democratic faction controls the Democratic party chapter under the state chairmanship of former senator Roberto Prats, two of the five DNC members residing in Puerto Rico, Senate president Kenneth McClintock and Francisco Domenech are statehooders.

If a senator died, resigned, or was expelled, the legislature of the state would appoint a replacement to serve out the remainder of the senator's term.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

Harding, as a Republican state senator, was a partisan regular and did favors for political bosses Mark Hanna and Harry M. Daugherty.

He was nominated by the party convention and then elected an Ohio state senator in 1859, serving until 1861.

He was the first Democrat elected senator from the state of Minnesota since before the Civil War.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

By convention, senators appointed by the state legislature to fill casual vacancies were from the same political party as the former senator.

* Howard County, Arkansas, named for James H. Howard, Arkansas state senator

* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )

In the early years of Archie, Riverdale was located in Massachusetts, with Mr. Lodge being a senator for that state, but this is no longer considered canon.

James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a state senator from Alachua County, built a school, the Gainesville Academy, around the same time.

Owing to the influence of Taylor's machine, newspapers and radio stations in Smith's home state, on Taylor's orders, refuse to report what Smith has to say and even distort the facts against the senator.

* LaFayette Fayette McMullen ( 1805-1880 ), American politician and banker ; Virginia state senator, member of both the U. S. and Confederate House of Representatives, and Territorial Governor of Washington

In the spring of 1965, Jack McGregor, a state senator from Kittanning, began lobbying campaign contributors and community leaders to bring an NHL franchise back to Pittsburgh.

In Warren's California, Los Angeles County had only one state senator.

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

As a state senator and governor, Seward promoted progressive political policies including prison reform and increased spending on education.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

they will destroy the shrines, temples, museums, and churches of the state that is the implacable enemy of the life they believe in.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

Actually it amounts to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering the additional half-million dollars Gov. Vandiver allocated last year from the state surplus.

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

There is no charge and no state aid.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Purchase of state vehicles is handled similarly to all state purchases.