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Mark Anderson (Arizona Politician)
Mark Anderson (born November 23, 1954) was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate The Arizona State Senate is part of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Arizona. The Senate consists of 30 members each representing an average of 219,859 constituents (2009 figures). Members serve two-year terms w ..., serving two stretches in the House and a single term in the Senate. He was first elected to the House representing District 29 in November 1994, and was re-elected three times, in 1996, 1998, and 2000. Due to Arizona's term limit policy, Anderson could not run for the House again in 2002, so instead ran for the Senate. Due to redistricting, he ran in the new 18th District, and won the Senate seat, where he served from 2003 to 2005. In 2004 he again ran for the House, winning the seat from the 18th District. He won re-election in 2006. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Mark Republican Party members of the Arizon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona 18th Legislative District
Arizona's 18th legislative district is one of 30 in the state, consisting of a section of Pima County. As of 2023, there are 65 precincts in the district, all in Pima, with a total registered voter population of 162,116. The district has an overall population of 243,411. Following the 2020 United States redistricting cycle, the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) redrew legislative district boundaries in Arizona. According to the AIRC, the district is outside of competitive range and considered leaning Democratic. Political representation The district is represented in the 56th Arizona State Legislature, which convenes from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, by Priya Sundareshan ( D-Tucson) in the Arizona Senate and by Christopher Mathis ( D-Tucson) and Nancy Gutierrez ( D-Tucson) in the Arizona House of Representatives. Election results The 2022 elections were the first in the newly-drawn district. Arizona Senate Arizona House of Representative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Johnson (politician)
Karen Johnson is an American politician. She served as a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate from 1997 to 2008. Biography Early life Karen Johnson was born in Mesa, Arizona. Career She worked in the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. She served as a Republican state congresswoman and senator for the 18th district from 1997 to 2008.Matthew BensonEx-state Sen. Karen Johnson weighs 2010 governor race '' The Arizona Republic'', April 16, 2009 In 2000, she introduced a bill to have Arizona secede from the Union if martial law was declared or guns confiscated. In 2008, she sponsored a bill to allow concealed weapons on college and university campuses in Arizona.Randal C. ArchibaldArizona Weighs Bill to Allow Guns on Campuses '' The New York Times'', March 5, 2008 She lost her senate seat to Russell Pearce Russell Keith Pearce (June 23, 1947 – January 5, 2023) was an American far-right politician who was a Republican (GOP) member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona 29th Legislative District
Arizona's 29th Legislative District is one of 30 in the state, situated in central Maricopa County. As of 2021, there are 33 precincts in the district, with a total registered voter population of 95,481. The district has an overall population of 247,936. Political representation The district is represented for the 2021–2022 Legislative Session in the State Senate by Martín Quezada (D, Phoenix) and in the House of Representatives by Richard C. Andrade (D, Phoenix) and Cesar Chavez Cesar Chavez (born Cesario Estrada Chavez ; ; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged ... (D, Phoenix). References {{Reflist Maricopa County, Arizona Arizona legislative districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lela Steffey
Lela may refer to: People * Lela (footballer) (born 1962), Brazilian football player * Lela Alston (born 1942), American politician * Lela Autio (1927-2016), American modernist painter and sculptor * Lela B. Njatin (born 1963), Slovene writer and visual artist * Lela Bliss (1896-1980), American actress * Lela Brooks (1908-1990), Canadian speed skater * Lela Chichinadze (born 1988), Georgian footballer * Lela Cole Kitson (1891-1970), American freelance writer * Lela E. Buis, American writer, playwright, poet, and artist * Lela E. Rogers (1891-1977), American journalist, film producer, film editor, and screenwriter * Lela Evans, Canadian politician * Lela Javakhishvili (born 1984), Georgian chess player * Lela Karagianni (1898-1944), Greek resistance leader * Lela Keburia (born 1976), Georgian politician and philologist * Lela Lee, American actress and cartoonist * Lela Loren (born 1980), American television and film actress * Lela Mevorah (1898-1972), Serbian librarian and medicin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Ash
Cecil Ash was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. The House convenes in the legislative chambers at the Arizona State C ..., representing Arizona's 18th District from January 2009 until January 2013. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ash, Cecil Republican Party members of the Arizona House of Representatives 1948 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Court
Steve Court (born July 21, 1950) is an American politician who served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 18. He was the majority leader of the Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. The House convenes in the legislative chambers at the Arizona State C .... First elected in 2008, he retired after the expiration of his second term in January 2013. Early life and education Court was born and raised in Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. Career In 1974, Court moved to Arizona, where he spent the next twenty years working in the Accounting and Financial Analysis department for the telecommunications company Motorola. After working in Motorola, he opened a small business in 1996, and sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve, New Mexico
Reserve is a village in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 289 as of the 2010 census, down from 387 in 2000. It is the county seat of Catron County. Currently the village has two grocery stores, a hardware store, a bar, fairgrounds, and a health clinic. It is the site where Elfego Baca held off a gang of Texan cowboys who wanted to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarty. History Catron became a county in 1921. It was named after an attorney and political leader from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Thomas B. Catron. In the 1860s, Mexican-Americans established a string of villages along the San Francisco River (central Arizona), San Francisco River, naming them the Upper, Lower, and Middle San Francisco Plazas. In the late 1870s European American, Anglo settlers began arriving. They renamed Upper Frisco Plaza as Milligan's Plaza, naming it after a merchant and saloon owner. Milligan's Plaza was the site of the Frisco shootout of Elfego Baca. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesa, Arizona
Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the most populous city in the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe, Arizona, Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler, Arizona, Chandler and Gilbert, Arizona, Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek, Arizona, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction on the east. Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona after Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, the List of United States cities by population, 37th-largest city in the US, and the largest city that is not a county seat. The city is home to 504,258 people as of 2020 according to the Census Bureau, which makes it more populous than Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Miami. Mesa has been described as "America's most Conservatism in the United States, conservative city". More than 40,000 students are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona House Of Representatives
The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. The House convenes in the legislative chambers at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix. Its members are elected to two-year terms, with a term limit of four consecutive terms (eight years). Each of the state's 30 legislative districts elects two state house representatives and one state senator, with each district having a population of at least 203,000. The last election occurred on November 8, 2022, with the Republican Party currently holding a narrow majority in the House. Leadership of the House The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus along with the Majority Leader, the Assistant Majority Leader, and the Majority Whip. The House as a whole shall pass a House resolution confirming the Speaker and the Chief Clerk of the House. In addition to presiding over the body, the Speaker is also the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
