Talk:History of the United States Senate
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Frank L. Smith was elected by the people of Illinois to serve as their senator in 1927. The Senate voted to not allow him to take his seat. Why? Did this happen ever again/before? Ydorb 22:00, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
- To partially answer my own question. See the Frank L. Smith article. Others have also been denied, William Vare, Rush D. Holt, Sr., James Shields, Albert Gallatin. Ydorb June 30, 2005 19:14 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the info. One of these days i'm going to finish the article and write the post-WWII history of the Senate. Dinopup 1 July 2005 02:54 (UTC)
[edit] Confusing sentence
This sentence is in the article: "In 1790, it would take a theoretical 30% of the population to elect a majority of the Senate, today it would take 17%." What does that even mean? Couldn't each Senator theoretically be elected by 1 voter, making the % much smaller? Or is there some sort of minimum votes required that I don't know about? I wasn't sure if there's some appropriate tag I can place after this sentence in the article since it seems to be fabricated. Error9900 (talk) 18:46, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Civil War
The article jumps from the Antebellum to the Gilded Age. Readers, like myself, would be well served with some info on how the Senate spent the 1860s. Awg1010 (talk) 05:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
