Blount returned to Tennessee, where his popularity was undiminished, and was elected in 1798 to the Tennessee senate, serving as speaker until his death.
In the city-states the municipal senates serve also as provincial parliaments, and the municipal offices assume the nature of provincial ministries.
LAST week's joint meeting of the foreign policy committees of the American and Mexican senates served as a reminder of the unique position that Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, holds in American foreign policy today.
They will have roughly the same boundaries as the 46 existing districts but each will have a governor, extra staff and a senator who will sit in a newly created senate serving as the upper house of parliament.
He retired from the latter position when Maryland passed a law forbidding members of the state senate to serve in the U.S. Congress.
Everywhere, the imperial government continued to count on the members of the municipal senate to serve it, above all in tax collection but also in the supply of recruits, in rural police work, billeting for troops, or road building.
In 1865 he accepted the tsar's invitation to leave Moscow University and the senate to serve as a tutor to the tsar's sons and their families in St . Petersburg
Plenty of U.S. senators with distinguished tenures--think Hillary Clinton or William Cohen or Lloyd Bentsen--gave up the senate to serve their presidents, so Burris would be in esteemed company.
He is somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the United States senate, somebody who served this country with valour in Vietnam," Obama said.
In the senate, Mount served on a variety of committees, chairing the Senate Committees on Coastal Restoration and Flood Control, Revenue and Fiscal Affairs, and also serving as Vice-Chair of the Senate Committee on Education.
