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Ronald Whitney (politician)
Ronald Whitney is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ... from 1995 to 1997. He was elected to the House in 1995 in a special election to succeed Michael Sullivan, who was appointed Plymouth County District Attorney. He was defeated in his bid for a full term by Kathleen Teahan. References Living people Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Year of birth missing (living people) {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub ... [...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] |
Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 7th Plymouth District
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 7th Plymouth district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Plymouth County. Republican Alyson Sullivan of Abington has represented the district since 2019. Towns represented The district includes the following localities: * Abington * part of East Bridgewater * Whitman The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district, Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, and 2nd Plymouth and Bristol district. Former locales The district previously covered: * Marion, circa 1872 * Wareham, circa 1872 Representatives * John M. Kinney, circa 1858 * Marshall E. Simmons, circa 1859 * John W. Delano, circa 1888 * Morrill S. Ryder, circa 1920 * Adolph Johnson, circa 1951 * Charles A. Mackenzie, Jr., circa 1975 * Andrew Card * Emmet Hayes * Michael J. Sullivan * Ronald Whitney * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sullivan (U
Michael Sullivan (or variants) may refer to: Politicians * Michael Sullivan (U.S. Attorney) (born 1954), former Boston-based federal prosecutor and acting ATF Director *Michael Sullivan (Canadian senator) (1838–1915), Canadian senator *Michael Sullivan (MP) (1809–1878), UK MP for the Irish constituency of Kilkenny, 1847–1865 * Michael D. Sullivan (judge) (1938–2000), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi * Michael J. Sullivan (mayor) (born 1956), mayor of Lawrence, MA * Michael J. Sullivan (Wyoming politician) (born 1943), Wyoming Labor Commissioner * Michael A. Sullivan (born 1959), former mayor of Cambridge, MA * Michael Quinn Sullivan (born 1970), president of Empower Texans and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility * Michael S. Sullivan (1876–1929), Newfoundland politician *Mike Sullivan (Wyoming politician) (born 1939), 29th Governor of Wyoming and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland * Mike Sullivan (Canadian politician) (born 1952), Canadian Member of Parliament Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Teahan
Kathleen M. Teahan (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician. She represented the 7th Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007. She resides in Whitman. Biography Kathleen M. Teahan was married and had four children. She taught school at the Gordon W. Mitchell Middle School in East Bridgewater and then at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School. Achievements During her tenure in office, Teahan was named ''Legislator of the Month'' by the Massachusetts Medical Society. Teahan was a member of the Joint Committee on Health Care, and the Joint Committee on State Administration, since her first term. She served on the Committee to Study Adoption, the Committee to Study End-of-Life Issues, the Special Commission on Oral Health, and the Special Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She has been a member of the Girl Scout Council of Southeastern Massachusetts Board of Directors and the Whitman-Hanson Citizen Scholarship Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts House Of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in Boston. Qualifications Any person seeking to get elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives must meet the following qualifications: * Be at least eighteen years of age * Be a registered voter in Massachusetts * Be an inhabitant of the district for at least one year prior to election * Receive at least 150 signatures on nomination papers Representation Originally, representatives were apportioned by town. For the first 150 persons, one representative was granted, and this ratio increased as the population of the town increased. The largest membership of the House was 749 in 1812 (214 of these being from the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Massachusetts House Of Representatives
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
