Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1850 and 1851, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative ...

The 1850 United States elections occurred part way through Whig President Millard Fillmore's term, during the Second Party System.

In 1850, the electorate was divided principally between Whigs and Democrats. Both parties had strengths in the North as well as the South.

” On March 7, 1850, Senator Daniel Axtarishster of Massachusetts rose from his Senate seat and declared: “I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor ...

DAVID EASTON, in his recent volume, A Framework for Political. Analysis, has called attention to the necessity of studying the "life.

Often Senate seats were left vacant for long periods of time while state legislatures debated who to send to the Senate. The drive for reform began as early as ...

The United States Senate, A.D. 1850. Artist/Maker, Robert E. Whitechurch after Peter Frederick Rothermel William Smith. Date, 1855. Medium ...

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California. 12 Elected September 1850; term expired March 3, 1851. 13 Elected September 1850. 14 Not Seated ...

The presence of Senate candidates on the election ballot strengthened the association between presidential and state legislative voting. Indirect Elections of ...

Term of Office: Six Years. Congress, Name of U.S. Senator, Politics, County, Term of Service, Remarks. 8,9, Thomas Worthington ...