Backers of Bob Dole and Alan Keyes joined forces Saturday at the Missouri Republican Convention to prevent Pat Buchanan from taking control of the state's delegation to the national convention.Leaders for Dole, the retiring Senate majority leader who virtually has won the GOP presidential nomination...
The Missouri Republican Party held its presidential caucuses on Saturday, offering state voters their only chance to weigh in on who should represent the party on the November presidential ballot. Voters lined up outside a church in Columbia, home to the University of Missouri, before the doors ...
With the elected governor absent from the capital and the legislators largely dispersed, the state convention was reassembled with most of its members present, save 20 that fled south with Jackson's forces. The convention declared all offices vacant, and installed Hamilton Gamble as the new ...
shall be republican and not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States; and that the legislature of said state shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to ...
Shortly after passing Arkansas’ Ordnance of Secession, the Arkansas Secession Convention created the “Provisional Army of Arkansas”, commonly known as the Arkansas State Troops. These forces cooperated with (and fought along side) Confederate Forces, but were ultimately under Arkansas state control....
Unless this is more deflection from various, uh, storms brewing for various Republicans? Sigh. I remember when being a Republican meant having some class. I’m sorry, but what gives any legislation to know…much less create laws about their constituents bodies, body parts, or identity. Mind ...
Trump prevailed twice under Missouri's old presidential primary system. The Democratic caucuses aren’t until May 23. The last GOP caucuses in Idaho were in 2012, when about 40,000 of the state’s nearly 200,000 registered Republican voters showed up to select their preferred candidate....
Six U.S. states held primaries on Tuesday for voters to select their prefered presidential candidate this year. The other four states are Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota and Washington. Trump is expected to win the Republican primaries as he faces no major challenges in the party. On the Democr...
Harry went to the 1900 Democratic Convention for William Jennings Bryan and Adlee Stevenson of Illinois. Harry admired Bryan’s common man aesthetic. The Republican’s won in 1900. John Truman networked to advance his agricultural prospects. There was massive racism in Missouri. Truman learnt an ...
Missouri has always voted for the Republican Presidential candidate, with the last Democrat winning the state being Bill Clinton in 1996. Missouri voted for John McCain and Mitt Romney over Democrat Barack Obama of neighboring Illinois, despite Obama being elected to the Presidency in both 2008 and...