Event class: governor, appointed, elected, term, office, supreme court, resigned, senate, fill, seat

Events with high posterior probability

Benjamin F. Tracy	In December 1881, he was appointed by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell to the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Judge Charles Andrews as Chief Judge after the resignation of Charles J. Folger.
Charles M. Egan	On January 11, 1934 New Jersey State Chancellor Luther A. Campbell appointed Egan to succeed John J. Fallon as Vice-Chancellor of the State Chancery Court.
Todd Stroger	In 2001 Stroger was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley to replace Lorraine Dixon, who had died while in office.
Pat Quinn (politician)	On February 20, 2009, Quinn called for the resignation of US Senator Roland Burris, the man appointed to the United States Senate by Blagojevich to fill the vacant seat created by the resignation of Barack Obama.
Ed Case	On November 30, 2002, Case was elected in a special election to fill her vacancy in the remaining weeks of the 107th Congress, gaining over 50 % of the vote in a field of over forty.
Thomas E. Caldecott	In 1930, he was appointed to fill out the remaining term of Mayor Michael B. Driver.
Stephen Breyer	Breyer's appointment came shortly thereafter, however, following the retirement of Harry Blackmun in 1994, when Clinton nominated Breyer as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on May 13 of that year.
James Ronald Chalmers	His father, an attorney, was elected in 1845 to fill out an unexpired term as a United States Senator from Mississippi following the previous senator's resignation.
Marc Dann	After Ryan won election to Congress in 2002, Dann convinced the state Senate's Democratic caucus to appoint him to fill the balance of Ryan's term.
Jack Sinagra	After Lewis M. Eisenberg left his post as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in September 2001, Sinagra was nominated by Acting Governor of New Jersey Donald DiFrancesco as his replacement.
Michelle Larkin	Pawlenty appointed her to the Court of Appeals on June 24, 2008, to the seat previously occupied by Christopher Dietzen, whom Pawlenty had named to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Mike Parry (politician)	A Republican, he won a special election on January 26, 2010, succeeding Senator Dick Day, who resigned on January 8, 2010, to head Racino Now, an organization dedicating to lobbying for slots at the state's two horse-racing tracks.
Michael W. McConnell	In June 2005, amid expectations that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist would retire at the end of the Court's term, some sources cited McConnell as a frontrunner for Rehnquist's seat, which ultimately went to John Roberts.
William Horn Battle	Battle was appointed to serve on the state Supreme Court by Governor William Alexander Graham in 1848 until the legislature could meet to select a replacement for Judge Joseph J. Daniel.
Carl McCall	In 1993, McCall was elected by the New York State Legislature to fill the unexpired term of Republican Edward Regan as state comptroller.
Roy Hughes Williams	He ran for the Supreme Court of Ohio in November 1934 as a Republican, to fill an un-expired term, and defeated Howard Landis Bevis, who had been appoint after Reynolds R. Kinkade resigned.
A. W. Sheldon	President Chester A. Arthur nominated Sheldon to replace Wilson W. Hoover as Associate Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court on March 30, 1883.
Paul Laxalt	To give the Republican Laxalt a leg up in seniority, Senator Bible resigned three weeks early and on December 18, 1974 Nevada Governor Mike O'Callaghan appointed Laxalt to finish out Bible's term.
Vickie D. McDonald	She was appointed to the legislature on August 10, 2001 to replace her husband, deceased senator Richard N. McDonald.
Martin Nesbitt (politician)	In February 2004, Martin Nesbitt was appointed to the North Carolina Senate by Governor Mike Easley to fill the vacant seat left by the resignation of Steve Metcalf.
Karla M. Gray	Governor Stan Stephens appointed Gray as an Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court in 1991, following the resignation of Diane G. Barz.
Paul J. Sorg	At a special election held in May 1894 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Houk, Paul Sorg was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third congress from Ohio's Third district.
John Marshall Stone	Governor Adelbert Ames resigned in 1876, making Stone, the President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi Senate at that time, the acting governor.
Charles Barrow	In 1962, both his parents were killed in a car accident and Barrow was elected to replace his father, who, at the time of his death had been an Associate Chief Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals.
Frank R. Gooding	In 1918 Gooding was the Republican nominee in a special U. S. Senate election to complete the term of James H. Brady, who died in office early in the year.
Melissa Noriega	Noriega's campaign was the third special election since 1997 where Chris Bell served the remainder of former councilmember John Peavy, who resigned in the wake of an ethics investigation.
James R. Winchester	Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating appointed Winchester to the Oklahoma Supreme Court on January 4, 2000.
Richard A. Snelling	His daughter Diane B. Snelling has served in the Vermont Senate since being appointed to succeed her mother in 2002.
Melvin Laird	Because he had stated repeatedly that he would serve only four years (only Charles E. Wilson and Robert McNamara among his predecessors served longer), it came as no surprise when President Nixon on 28 November 1972 nominated Elliot L. Richardson to succeed him.
Earl Warren	But before it was announced, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson died suddenly in September 1953 and Eisenhower picked Warren to replace him as Chief Justice of the United States.
Daniel F. Miller	He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as judge of the Iowa Supreme Court in 1860, losing to George G. Wright, who would serve an additional ten years on the Court and eventually serve one full term in the U. S. Senate.
R. Harmon Drew, Sr.	Then in 1988, when his son vacated the city judgeship for the district court, Drew, Sr., returned to the city bench as an interim appointee selected by the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Guy Otto Farmer	But Farmer was passed over in favor of George J. Bott (who remained General Counsel for most of Farmer's term as chair of the NLRB, his term of office ending on December 20, 1954).
John Hickenlooper	According to The Denver Post, he was considered to be the frontrunner to fill the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Ken Salazar upon his expected confirmation to be Secretary of the Interior in the Obama Administration.
Bibb Graves	In 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt named Senator Hugo Black to the U. S. Supreme Court, Graves appointed his own wife, Dixie Bibb Graves, to serve the remainder of Black's term.
Harold A. Stevens	In 1955, he was appointed by Governor W. Averell Harriman to the New York Supreme Court to fill a vacancy.
Charles Austin Tweed	On April 14, 1870, following Judge John Titus' promotion to Chief Justice, Tweed was appointed an Associate Justice to the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court.
Alfred O. P. Nicholson	In 1840 the Tennessee General Assembly elected him, on an interim basis, to succeed to the U. S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Felix Grundy.
Warren Rudman	Durkin resigned and the Governor appointed Rudman to fill the vacancy in late December 1980.
Conrad Baker	After Hendricks was elected governor in 1872, Baker took on state attorney general Oscar B. Hord and Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Samuel Perkins as partners.
Charles J. Folger	Following the death of Sanford E. Church, Folger was appointed Chief Judge by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell on May 20, 1880, to fill the vacancy temporarily.
Chip Pickering	When Lott announced his resignation as Senator in November 2007, Pickering was rumored to be Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's choice to replace him.
George H. Cobb	He was President pro tempore of the New York State Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	On Friday December 8, 1882, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts associate justice Otis Lord decided to resign, however, giving outgoing Republican governor John Davis Long a chance to appoint his successor, if it could be done before the Massachusetts Governor's Council adjourned at 3 pm.
Eric J. Magnuson	On March 17, 2008, Governor Pawlenty appointed Magnuson Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Russell A. Anderson.
Redfield Proctor	Proctor left the War Department in November 1891 to become a United States Senator, filling a vacancy caused by resignation.
Floyd Thompson (lawyer)	In 1919, a vacancy arose on the Supreme Court of Illinois when Justice George A. Cooke stepped down to become chief counsel of Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, and Thompson ran for this seat, winning election in April 1919.
Kenneth Lay	In December 2000, Lay was mentioned as a possible candidate for President Bush's Treasury Secretary along with head Douglas A. Warner III of J. P. Morgan & Co., but Paul O'Neill was eventually selected.
Ted Kaufman	Kaufman resigned and Coons took office on November 15, 2010, in accordance with Delaware state law and Senate rules.
Warner Cope	In June 1859 he was nominated by Alvinza Hayward, also of Amador County, to be the candidate of the Democratic Lecompton Party for associate justice of the Supreme Court of California.
Vincent J. Murphy	In 1943 Murphy ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey against Republican Walter Evans Edge, who had come out of retirement after serving as United States Senator and United States Ambassador to France, as well as Governor during World War I.
B. Frank Heintzleman	The timing, three months before the end of his term, was occasioned by the outgoing governor's desire to allow for his replacement to be in place before the next territorial legislature convened on January 28, 1957.
Frank W. Benson (Oregon governor)	Governor George Earle Chamberlain was elected to the United States Senate halfway through his term in 1909 and resigned as governor.
John Roberts	Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died on September 3, 2005, while Roberts's confirmation was still pending before the Senate.
William F. Fitzgerald	On February 2, 1893, Governor Henry Markham appointed Fitzgerald to fill the seat on the California Supreme Court left empty by the death of Justice John R. Sharpstein.
Edgar J. Nathan	In 1946 Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey appointed Nathan to the New York State Supreme Court.
William A. Robertson	He was removed as President of the Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor by a vote of that body on Dec. 24, 1881 and was replaced by Senator George L. Walton.
Eugene F. Pigott, Jr.	His selection for a 14-year term to New York State's Court of Appeals, also by Governor Pataki, was confirmed by the New York State Senate in 2006.
Janie Shores	Shores served as a supernumerary justice until 2001, when Roy Moore, then the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, dismissed her and replaced her with retired Justice Hugh Maddox.
Willis B. Hunt, Jr.	He was appointed by Governor Joe Frank Harris to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1986.
William K. Suter	On July 1, 2013, the Supreme Court named Scott S. Harris as Suter's successor, effective September 1, 2013.
David Meriwether (Kentucky)	Meriwether was appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Clay, and served from July 6, 1852 to August 31, 1852, when Archibald Dixon was elected his successor.
Ron Beitelspacher	He was appointed to the Idaho Senate in 1980, again by Evans to fill a vacancy.
Hugh Ike Shott	In 1942, he was a candidate for the special Senate'' short term'' caused by the resignation of Matthew M. Neely.
Lee A. Johnson	Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Johnson to the Kansas Supreme Court in 2007 to replace Justice Donald L. Allegrucci who retired due to state mandated age limits.
Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama	On September 11, 1995, Governor Jim Edgar set November 28 as the date for a special primary election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mel Reynolds following his August 1995 conviction.
William K. Suter	When Clerk of the Supreme Court Joseph F. Spaniol, Jr. announced his plans to retire at the end of 1990, Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist selected General Suter to take his place.
Marshall Rothstein	Appointment Rothstein was one of the candidates (the others being Peter MacKinnon and Constance Hunt) recommended by a committee convened by the outgoing Liberal government to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, following John C. Major's retirement from the bench in early 2006.
T. Semmes Walmsley	In July 1929, Walmsley was appointed acting mayor of New Orleans to fill in for Behrman's successor Arthur J. O'Keefe, who resigned because of illness.
Rick Romley	Rick Romley ended his appointed term on November 3, 2010.
Harris Wofford	On April 4, 1991, Pennsylvania's senior U. S. Senator, John Heinz, died in an aviation accident, leaving his seat in the U. S. Senate open.
Dwight Morrow	In 1930 he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Evans Edge.
Dan Coats	When Quayle resigned from the Senate after being elected Vice President of the United States in 1988, Coats was appointed to Quayle's former seat.
John C. Stennis	Upon the death of Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1947, Stennis won the special election to fill the vacancy, winning the seat from a field of five candidates (including two sitting Congressmen, John E. Rankin and William M. Colmer).
John F. Kinney	In June 1847, he was made president of the Democratic Convention, and before leaving Iowa City, which was then the capital of the new state, he was appointed, by Governor Briggs, as Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa, to fill a vacancy.
Simeon Eben Baldwin	Automatically retired from the position of chief justice of the supreme court, February 5, 1910, because he had reached the age limit of seventy years, he that year was nominated for governor on the Democratic ticket and was elected.
Stuart Rabner	Rabner was sworn in as Chief Justice on June 29, 2007, with Acting Chief Justice Virginia Long administering the oath of office.
Isaac H. Maynard	In January 1893, Maynard was re-appointed to the Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Charles Andrews as Chief Judge, although the Bar Association had urged the Governor against it.
James J. Lanzetta	On July 2, 1947, Mayor William O'Dwyer appointed him as city magistrate of New York City to fill a vacancy ; later that month he was appointed to a full ten-year term.
Eugene A. Philbin	In April 1913, Philbin was appointed by Gov. William Sulzer to the New York Supreme Court (1st D.) to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward E. McCall.
Edwin M. Stanton	Stanton returned to law after retiring as Secretary of War, and in 1869 was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant ; however, he died four days after his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.
Lee E. Emerson	When Arthur unexpectedly became governor in 1950 after Gibson resigned to accept a federal judgeship, Arthur served out Gibson's term but declined to run for a full term himself, clearing the way for Emerson's comeback.
Cliff Hite	Representative Hite was sworn into a third term on January 3, 2011, however, with Senator Steve Buehrer's pending resignation from the Ohio Senate to head the Bureau of Worker's Compensation under Governor-elect John Kasich, Hite was mentioned as a possible successor.
Hjalmar Petersen	Petersen was elected the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1934 and served with Governor Floyd B. Olson.
Steve Beshear	When incumbent Attorney General Stephens resigned in December 1979 to accept an appointment to the Kentucky Supreme Court, Beshear was appointed to fill the vacancy until his term officially began in January.
Buren R. Sherman	Sherman was elected governor of Iowa in 1882 and was the first occupant of the governor's office in the Iowa State Capitol ; however, it was his successor, William Larrabee, who first occupied the office for a full term.
John Augustus Swope	Swope was elected in 1884 as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Duncan.
John Hubert Hall	As second in line of succession, Hall became acting Governor of Oregon until a 1948 special election could be held to elect a governor to complete the term.
Robert Haskell	On January 2, 1959, outgoing Governor Edmund Muskie resigned before the end of his term to take his seat in the United States Senate.
Pat Roberts	Despite being the longest-serving member of the Kansas delegation, Roberts spent the first 14 years of his Senate career as Kansas' junior senator, since Sam Brownback had taken office on election day 1996 to finish out Dole's term.
Howard Baker	When Hugh Scott retired, Baker was elected senate minority leader in 1977 by his GOP colleagues, defeating Robert Griffin 19-18.
Edward L. Jackson	In 1920 Governor of Indiana James P. Goodrich appointed Jackson as Secretary of State after the incumbent William Roach died in January 1920.
Harris Burgoyne	When Mayor Tilleman died suddenly of a heart attack in late 1972, Harris was the President of the Green Bay Wisconsin City Council and, in that capacity, assumed the duties of mayor.
Jeremiah E. O'Connell	O'Connell was elected as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and served until his resignation on January 18, 1956.
Mark B. Cohen	By appointment of current House Speaker Samuel H. Smith, he also continues his service on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, where he has served since his Fall 1995 appointment by House Speaker Matthew J. Ryan.
Ron Beitelspacher	He served briefly in the Idaho House of Representatives in 1979 after being appointed to fill a vacancy by Gov. John V. Evans.
Alfred C. Sikes	Sikes succeeded Dennis R. Patrick as FCC head, and although his term as a commissioner was scheduled to end on June 30, 1993, Sikes announced his resignation on January 19, 1993.
Carlos R. Moreno	In 2010, California voters confirmed Justice Moreno to a full 12-year term.
Jim Edgar	In early 1981, when then-Secretary of State Alan Dixon moved to the U. S. Senate, Thompson named Edgar to fill the vacancy.
William S. Kenyon (Iowa politician)	In 1930, following the death of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Edward Terry Sanford, Kenyon was considered by some as a favorite to succeed him, but President Hoover instead nominated John J. Parker (who failed to win Senate confirmation) and then Owen Roberts (who was confirmed).