Event class: elected, served, house, representatives, delegate, member, district, state, county, senate

Events with high posterior probability

B. H. Roberts	Roberts became a fervent Democrat and was elected Davis County Delegate to the Utah State Constitutional Convention in 1894.
Jefferson Hunt	He served as a representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1863, representing Weber County.
Rick Hube	A Republican, he served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, representing the Windham-Bennington-Windsor 1 District, from 1999 until his death.
Waggoner Carr	Carr was elected to the Texas House of Representatives from Lubbock District 19 in 1950.
Sean Eldridge	Eldridge served as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention for NY-19.
Joe Lieberman	He was elected as a'' reform Democrat'' in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as Majority Leader.
Jeremy Harris	A biologist by training, Harris started his political career as a delegate to the 1978 Hawai'i State Constitutional Convention.
George Washington Covington	He was a delegate to Maryland's 1867 constitutional convention.
John Otis (Maine)	He served as member of the State House of Representatives in 1841.
Byron G. Stout	He was also member of the Michigan Senate in 1860 and served as president pro tempore.
Wilford Woodruff	Woodruff served as a member of the 1862 Utah Constitutional Convention and as a member of the committee that drafted the appeal to the U. S. Congress to approve the constitution and grant statehood for Utah.
Ted Schwinden	A member of the United States Democratic Party, Schwinden was elected to the Montana House of Representatives in 1958.
Richard J. Daley	Daley's career in politics began when he became a Democratic precinct captain ; although he was a lifelong Democrat, Daley was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican in 1936.
George W. Della	Trained as a lawyer, Della was appointed to the Maryland Senate in 1939 to represent a district in Baltimore and served until his retirement from politics.
Joe Lieberman	Lieberman was elected as a'' reform Democrat'' to the Connecticut Senate in 1970, where he served for 10 years, including the last six as Majority Leader.
Robert Evander McNair	He practiced law in Moncks Corner and Allendale, South Carolina, from which he was elected in 1950 to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Rashida Tlaib	Upon her swearing in on January 1, 2009, for her first term which she served in the 12th district, Tlaib became the first Muslim-American woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature, and only the second Muslim woman in history to be elected to any state legislature in America.
Lindsay Applegate	In 1862, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican representing Jackson County.
David R. Craig	Craig was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1990, representing District 34 (Harford County).
Juan Cancel R?os	In 1960, he was elected as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for the District of Manatí-Barceloneta.
Buzz Thomas	In 1996, one hundred and four years after his great grand uncle, William Webb Ferguson, was the first African-American elected to the Michigan Legislature, Thomas was elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives.
Claiborne Fox Jackson	Jackson was first elected to the Missouri General Assembly in 1836, representing Saline County.
Dan Rostenkowski	(Cohen 24) After two years in the House, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1954.
Alan Seabaugh	Alan Seabaugh has been a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2010.
Thomas Hackney	He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1901.
George B. Schwabe	He began his service in state government in 1918 when he represented Nowata County, Oklahoma in the State House of Representatives.
Mike Turzai	Turzai has represented the 28th legislative district since 2001 and is a member of the Republican Party.
George Washington Bowie	He became a delegate to the Second Constitutional Convention, which met at Iowa City in 1846.
Cherubusco Newton	He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888.
Bob Nettle	Originally elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1976, Nettle went on to serve five terms in the lower chamber.
Samuel S. Koenig	He was a delegate to the New York State convention to ratify the 21st Amendment in 1933.
Hosea Townsend	He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1869.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr.	He returned to the House in 1897, representing District 37 and Multnomah County as a Republican, and only served during the regular session that failed to organize that year.
William N. Barrett	He continued his four-year term at the 1911 secession when his district included Washington, Yamhill, Lincoln, and Tillamook counties.
Terry L. Dunn	Dunn was elected as an alternate delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Jeremy Harris	Harris was elected by his fellow Kaua‘i residents to serve as their delegate to the 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention.
Robert Woodward Barnwell	Robert Woodward's political career began in 1826 when he served in the South Carolina state House of Representatives for Beaufort County.
John Denison Baldwin	He became a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1847.
Dan Rostenkowski	In 1952, while still a student at Loyola, the twenty-four-year-old Rostenkowski was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield, Illinois.
Gael Tarleton	; Washington State House Representatives In January 2013, Tarleton began serving a two-year term as Washington State House Representative for the 36th District.
Augustus Hill Garland	He was elected to represent Pulaski County at the 1861 secession convention in Little Rock, where he voiced his opposition.
Leonidas Sexton	He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1856.
Acharya Ilaram Das	He became the State Organiser, member of the Sharan (initiation) Committee, and was the Sangha's Upa-Padadhikar for two consecutive two-year terms from 1968.
Kate Barnard	She served as the first Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four year terms (this position was the only one that the 1907 Oklahoma State Constitution permitted a woman to hold).
Pat Grassley	He has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2006.
Francis A. Chenoweth	Now a Republican, he was elected to the Oregon House in 1866 representing Benton County.
Thomas R. Hudd	He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880.
Morton D. Hull	He served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1920.
William West Bond	He served in that capacity until 1921, when he was elected to the Tennessee Senate, this time representing Haywood and Fayette County (21st District).
Marvin Griffin	In 1934, Griffin, a lifelong Democrat, was elected to the Georgia General Assembly.
Amanda Simpson	At the Arizona Democratic State Convention in 2008, Simpson was elected as an Arizona Delegate for Hillary Clinton to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
John F. Slade III	Prior to that, he was originally elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1982 to represent District 29C, which represented St. Mary's and Calvert Counties.
Isaac Van Zandt	He returned to Texas in 1845 to serve as a delegate to the Texas state constitutional convention.
Jerry Moran	He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996 and served six terms with little electoral opposition.
William Claiborne Owens	He served as delegate to the 1892 Democratic National Convention.
Karen McCarthy	First elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1976 as a Democrat, McCarthy was re-elected eight times, generally with little opposition.
James Page (minister)	Page served as a Leon County delegate to the Republican Convention in 1867.
Ron Ramsey	He was elected to the General Assembly as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1992, and served two terms.
Samuel Hamilton Buskirk	He served as a district judge and as a state representative in Indiana, and was also elected Speaker of the House, in 1869.
James C. Alvord	He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1837.
William Horn Battle	He became a lawyer, court reporter for the state Supreme Court, a member of the North Carolina House of Commons representing Franklin County, delegate to the 1839 Whig National Convention, and a state superior court judge.
Cleveland M. Bailey	Bailey served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1932.
Vicki Berger	Her district covers parts of Salem, Independence, and Monmouth, and switched from a primarily Republican district to a primarily Democratic district in 2008.
William Ball Gilbert	A Republican, he represented Portland, serving only during the 1889 legislative session.
Paul J. Curran	Curran was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1962 representing a district on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Ken Armbrister	After two terms in the house he was elected to the Texas Senate in 1986, representing the 18th Senatorial District, which encompasses 18 counties and a portion of Fort Bend County in southeast Texas.
Charles Ready	In 1835, Ready was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Ferral C. Dininny	In 1850, he was a member of the New York State Assembly from Steuben County, New York.
Steny Hoyer	In 1975, Hoyer was elected President of the Maryland State Senate, the youngest in state history.
Earle C. Clements	Clements was elected to the Kentucky Senate in 1941, representing Union, Webster, and Henderson counties.
Edmund William McGregor Mackey	As an active Republican, he was nominated to be a delegate from Charleston for the constitutional convention of South Carolina in 1868.
James D. McGinnis	McGinnis first won elected office in 1962, when he was elected to the Delaware House of Representatives.
Richard H. Austin	He served as a delegate for the Wayne County 6th District to the constitutional convention that produced the 1962 Michigan Constitution.
Emanuel Shultz	In 1873, he was a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention that revised the Ohio Constitution.
Charlie Summers	He was elected in 1990, becoming the first Republican to represent Maine's 31st Senate District.
Holly Benson	On December 31, 2006, Benson resigned from the Florida House of Representatives, ending her legislative service to the State of Florida.
Don Van Patten	He was a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Rockingham 8th District elected in 2008.
Anton Gunn	Gunn was elected to the House on November 4, 2008, and was the first African American to be elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives from District 79.
Liz Stefanics	A former member of the New Mexico Senate, she was the first openly LGBT member of the New Mexico legislature, serving a single four-year term that began in January 1993.
James M. Tuttle	In 1871 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives and served one term.
Debbie Phillips	Debbie Phillips is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 92nd District since 2009.
John Lesch	Lesch was first elected in 2002 and has been re-elected every two years since then.
David S. Walker	He was elected to the first session of the Florida State Legislature in 1845, serving Wakula and Leon Counties as Senator.
Joe Wilson (U.S. politician)	Wilson was elected to the South Carolina Senate in 1984 as a Republican from Lexington County.
John Franklin Kinney	During the 1893 electoral season, Judge Kinney served as delegate for the New York State Democratic Party's Monroe County, Second Assembly District, representing county interests at the party convention held at Saratoga Springs.
George Plescia	Plescia was elected to the California State Assembly in 2002 to represent the 75th Assembly District, which covers parts of northern San Diego County, California.
David Zuckerman (politician)	He ran again two years later and become the fourth Progressive Party member to serve in the Vermont State House, a seat that he held through 2010.
Elmer Holt	Holt was elected to the Montana House of Representatives in 1912, and served one term.
Timothy R. Ferguson	In 1994, Timothy Ferguson was first elected to the Maryland State Senate to represent District 4, which covers parts of Carroll and Frederick Counties.
Louis Stokes	Later in 1968, he was elected to the House, representing the 21st District of Ohio on Cleveland's East Side.
Franklin S. Richards	Richards was a member of the 1895 Utah State Constitutional Convention.
Douglas McKay	McKay served four terms in the state senate, served in World War II, and was then elected as the twenty-fifth Governor of Oregon in 1948.
Dave Pine	In 2002, Pine sought elected office for the first time since serving in the New Hampshire House of Representatives over 20 years before, running to represent California's 19th State Assembly district.
Sam Johnson	He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984 and was re-elected four times.
Benigno Aquino, Sr.	Benigno'' Igno'' Aquino was first elected to the Philippine Legislature (as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives) in 1919 representing the 2nd District of Tarlac.
George W. Summers	Later in 1840, Summers was elected as a Whig to the U. S. House of Representatives serving in the Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-Eighth Congresses.
John Quincy Smith	In 1861, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, and served two years.
Al Edwards	• He is a thirteen term elected member of the Texas House of Representative and has been serving in that capacity since 1978.
Edgar Chatto	Prior to this, he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines as representative of the first legislative district of Bohol which he served for three terms since 2001.
Nathaniel Macon Burford	He returned to private practice and, in 1866, was elected to the House of Representatives of the Eleventh Texas Legislature.