Thursday, November 9th, 2006...7:11 am
Trivia From the R-Cubed Library of Fascinating Facts
As all of you no doubt know, Gabrielle Giffords will be the third woman to serve in congress from Arizona. You know this because you read this blog and are thus well informed. Here is something interesting: if she serves two complete terms, she will serve more time in congress than either of the previous distaff occupants, Karan English and Isabella Greenway. She will serve longer than Greenway before she has her fourtieth birthday.
By her second re-election (knock on wood), she will be in congress longer than the two of them combined.
English only managed one term before being defeated by some guy whose name escapes me because he is no longer relevant. Greenway’s first election was to fill the unexpired term of Lewis Douglas, then she was elected to a full term. At the end of that term, she retired from congress.
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November 9th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Karan English was defeated in 1994 by non-other-than JD Hayworth. Of course you knew this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_English
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