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• Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary?
• Richard A. La Vay was a Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates for Montgomery County, Maryland and once shared his district with Mark K. Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver?
• Rafael Fraguela was elected to the N.J. Assembly 33rd District as a Democrat, became a Republican to run for the N.J. Senate, and returned to the Democrats to vote for a stem cell research bill?
• Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush?
• Ronnie Thompson, the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century, also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music?
• Woody Freeman, one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of Arkansas, claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account?
• William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
• W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency?
• Paul Eggers, the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush, by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats?
• Parker Watkins Hardin became the first Democrat to be defeated in a Kentucky gubernatorial election against a Republican candidate, losing to William O'Connell Bradley in 1895?
• Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
• Marsha Looper, a Republican state legislator elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a systems engineer, real estate broker, and rancher?
• John S. Treen, the choice of the Republican leadership, lost the 1989 special election which sent David Duke to the Louisiana House of Representatives?
• Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
• Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian American state legislator in the USA?
• Page Cortez, a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, gained vital name recognition in part from television ads promoting his furniture store?
• official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?
• Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
• John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
• after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention?
• the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?
• retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican-leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?
• in a June 2009 "parliamentary coup", Democrats Pedro Espada, Jr. and Hiram Monserrate agreed to vote with Republicans, giving the minority Republicans control of the New York State Senate?
• the Texas Republican politician Kenn George was involved in the formulation of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative?
• the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats?
  
• while serving in the California Assembly, Republican Michael D. Duvall was described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize gay marriage?
• when Mark DeSantis lost the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?
• the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968?
• in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber, Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff, after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
• former Louisiana State Senator Lynn Dean, a Republican, led the move in 2003 to repeal his state's anti-sodomy law?
• as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas, Lynn Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War?
• as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet, the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee, co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating?
• after unseating long-term incumbent Sixty Rayburn for the Louisiana State Senate in 1995, Republican Phil Short resigned in 1999 to return to the United States Marine Corps?
• before he switched to the GOP, Gerald Theunissen, a Democrat, won a special election in 1996 to the Louisiana Senate by defeating Republican state chairman Mike Francis?
• during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression?
• former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?
• former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?
• early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate?
• John "Bam" Carney, a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach?
• Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
• Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China?
• Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil?
• New Jersey State Senator John P. Scott was described by The New York Times as "one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature"?
• Republican California State Assemblyman Van Tran is the first Vietnamese-American to serve in a state legislature in U.S. history?
• Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County, Kentucky, considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government"?
• Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
• Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
• Republican New York City City Councilman Dan Halloran is also the leader of the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief, a neopagan religious group?
• Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie, would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
• Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election?
• Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?
• Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary?
• Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican, Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
• Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
• Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
• Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
• Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
• Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election?
• Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson, a Democrat, to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate?
• Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
• Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South?
• Dick Jones, a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
• Debra Lehrmann won the Republican nomination for the Texas Supreme Court in the only contested statewide race on the April 13, 2010, runoff ballot?
• George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
• Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?
• James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?
• Jay Riemersma, tight end for the Michigan Wolverines, Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers, is currently a Republican candidate for Congress from West Michigan?
• James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County executive of Essex County, New Jersey, even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy?
• Chet D. Traylor, a former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, has entered the 2010 Republican primary to challenge U.S. Senator David Vitter?
• Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?
• screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day and declaring himself a Republican?
• Richard Nixon was approached to run in California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 only after local Republicans failed to interest General George Patton in the race?
• Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
• American trade union leader William McFetridge switched from Democrat to Republican in 1948 and supported Thomas E. Dewey for president even though Dewey had successfully prosecuted his predecessor for labor racketeering?
• American politician Dean Alfange (pictured) held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
• Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?
• white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey's 2001 redistricting plan, stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
• Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?