On Tuesday, 18-year-old Saira Blair won a seat in West Virginia's state legislature, securing the distinction of being the youngest lawmaker in the nation.
Of the 341 women running for state legislatures, 255 secured their party's primary nomination as of Wednesday morning, said Chelsea Hill, information services coordinator for the Center for American Women and Politics.
Today, there isn't even a need to secure state legislature approval for these "special" Yonkers education allotments; the executive branch can just cut a check from its lump sum "special" appropriations.
Dennis Pennington, a leading member of the territorial legislature, was able to secure the election of many anti-slavery delegates to the constitutional convention.
Johnson's term in the House expired March 3, 1819, but by August, he had returned to the state legislature where he helped secure passage of a law that abolished imprisonment for debtors in Kentucky.
The efforts of the club members included leading the petition for women's suffrage to the California legislature in 1910; securing a grant of $7,500 from the Carnegie Corporation for a public library, which opened in 1915 (now the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts); and petitioning Occidental College to accept women.
Many of those who opposed him proposed Congressman Theodore E. Burton for the Senate seat; Foraker stated that the first thing to do was secure a Republican legislature, with the question of who should be senator left until victory was obtained.
Johnson was elected even though this became known during the 1836 campaign, a fact that Stevens notes, and expresses his bitterness about his inability to gain election by the legislature to the Senate, or to secure a Cabinet position.
Mr. Beebe overcame a Republican-controlled legislature and a constitutional requirement that he secure a three-fourths supermajority to expand Medicaid coverage.
Toward this end, on December 31 , 1851 Gadsden asked Green to secure from the California state legislature a large land grant located between the 34th and 36th parallels, along the proposed dividing line for the two California states.
Mr Calderón has negotiated with the PRI in order to secure a workable majority in the legislature.
