Sentence examples for has ever elected from inspiring English sources

(Actually, no predominantly-white country in the world has ever elected a black person to its highest political office).

Escobar and Rep.-elect Sylvia Garcia (D) are the first Hispanic women Texas has ever elected to federal office.

Democrats Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia won their House seats Tuesday night, becoming the first Hispanic women the state has ever elected to federal office. .

But as Jerry Karabel and I pointed out, none of them has ever elected a non-white person of any extraction to its highest political office -- that is, head of state or head of government.

Forces that lead to the election of one of the brightest, most charismatic president's we've ever elected.

MATTHEWS: We might soon have the first woman president, the first african-american president or a man older than we've ever elected before.

Begala and James Carville are the only practicing Democratic consultants who have ever elected a Democrat to the presidency--twice--and although Obama might not feel as comfortable with Carville, whose bare-knuckles style would probably not be his cup of tea (green or black), he and Begala would be a natural combination.

Certainly the Republican Party has plumbed unconventional depths with its nomination of Donald Trump as its presidential candidate: no person without military or elected or appointed governmental service has ever been elected to that office.

A Republican elected from El Paso — no one from El Paso has ever been elected to a statewide office, by the way — is sometimes out of step with colleagues from other parts of the state because of local issues: The late Jack Vowell, who served in the House throughout the 1980s and early '90s, became his era's Republican legislative expert on health and human services.

While there have been third party or independent candidates before – businessman Ross Perot ran in both 1992 and 1996, and activist Ralph Nader has stood in numerous elections – no independent candidate has ever been elected to the White House.

Yet no Asian-American has ever held elected office in the city, though this year's City Council election is likely to change that.