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thanks/jim jeffords

I was slowly plodding through completing entries for all of Texas' congressmen, but you saved me the trouble, thank you. Also I noticed that Jim Jeffords, the gentleman from Vermont, is missing from your list of party switchers. Thanks again. Thepedestrian 05:03, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Linda Smith

The Linda Smith page that your user page links to is now a disambiguation page. I think that Linda Smith (politician) is the name of the article about the person mentioned in your table. Tim Ivorson 15:13, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

156.63.253.3

You may complain on WP:VIP (an hope someone will notice) or directory to some Admin. This is case for block, IMHO. Pavel Vozenilek 05:23, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tom Metzger

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I immediately recognized this name but cannot think of the details. I think he has something to do with the "Radical Right" in CA. User:Billy Hathorn

Christian Nationalist Crusade

As a writer, back in 2004 on Gerlad (not O. K.) Smith, I though I might invite to to visit the site above for which I've just written a stub. Also, I would like to see a separate article on the Christian Nationalist Party, and I cannot think of anyone better to write it than you.

My interest in Smith is related to his distribution of G. F. Green's, British, abridged edition of The International Jew.

Yours truly, --Ludvikus 02:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Akin

Thanks for adding Akin's quote about Davy Crockett and his Blackberry to Akin's page. It's ridiculous. =D 152.23.196.162 08:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Theodore G. Bilbo

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Thank you for those compliaments. --RobbieFal 16:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1938

You are right about the primary figures for the 3rd Cong. Dist. in the 1938 SC US House elections. I acquired the figures from the book The Primary State: A History of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, 1876-1962, but I might have wrote it down wrong. If I wrote it down correctly, then I'll try to look up the results in a 1938 newspaper. And my local newspaper probably won't have those results so I would need access to the SC Dem papers at USC or if someone in Anderson would look up the results in a 1938 newspaper. Gamecock (talk) 00:13, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy

Attacks in the article William E. Riker

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Congressional terms in 19th century

Thank you for your comments. I know that there was some time ago a discussion about when the tenure of congressmen began. I do not want to waste time to read all that stuff, but I will give you the general rule which, in my opinion, complies with common sense: Congressmen elected before the term began hold office for the legal term (i.e. March 4, XXXX, to March 3, XXXX+2); congressmen elected after the term began, hold office from the day they take the seat. Option one covers almost all regularly elected congressmen from New York since they held election in even-numbered years, long before the term began. There were only two exceptions 1793 and 1821. 1793 the elections were held in January, so there is no problem. In 1821, the elections were held in late April, the results published in late June, well into the term, although Congress had not met yet. I strongly oppose a "retroactive" tenure in this case (and all similar ones). Think about it, people holding office before they are elected, in my opinion that is utterly absurd. I do make an exception for the congressmen who were re-elected, not interrupting their tenure, because they stayed in office one way or another, not missing any sessions. Kraxler (talk) 14:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Answering your last message, I have to disagree in a way. The seats are vacant, there can be no doubt, "unfilled" is just another word (implying an imminent filling though), but in Legalese they use always the word vacant, both for temporary (like when a Governor is out of the State) and definite vacancies (like after a resignation or death). If nobody is elected to succeed, the seat becomes vacant. That Congress was not actually in session complicates the thing very much, no doubt. It led also to that unsettled controversy about the begin of tenure, except for the First Congress, none actually convened on March 4. That should be common knowledge but, since Congress is sitting now all year round, I suspect that most people don't know. (A similar problem arises with federal appointive offices when it comes to 19th century "recess appointments" and 20th century "acting" or "interim" office-holders.) As I said, I think that the abovementioned general rule stands to reason, since in case of a late election, the only unquestionable date is when the man took his seat, it's recorded in the journal of the House. Some people never took their seats, like Selah Tuthill, he was never in Washington, D.C., elected late, and died before Congress met... Kraxler (talk) 17:17, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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