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- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 abstract "A Special Election to the United States Senate was held in Maryland on November 4, 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sen. Isidor Rayner (a Democrat). The election was historic in that it was the first Senate election held under the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which required direct election of senators. Blair Lee I, a Democrat and former state senator, became the first U.S. Senator directly elected by the people of a state under the Constitution's provisions (although other states had previously elected senators indirectly through party primaries and popular elections, which were then ratified by the state legislature). The election led to a controversy when the incumbent who had been appointed to fill Rayner's seat, Republican William P. Jackson, refused to give up his seat to Lee. Jackson claimed that "since he had been appointed under the original constitutional provision, he was entitled to hold his seat until the regularly scheduled adjournment date of the Maryland state assembly." The Senate considered Jackson's challenge but eventually rejected it and seated Lee.".
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- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 candidate Thomas_Parran,_Sr..
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 candidate "Blair Lee".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 candidate "Finley Hendrickson".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 candidate "George Wellington".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 candidate "Robert Fields".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 change "n/a".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 party "Democratic Party".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 party "Progressive Party".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 party "Prohibition Party".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 party "Republican Party".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 party "Socialist Party".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "112485".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "198205".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "2405".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "2982".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "7033".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 votes "73300".
- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 subject Category:United_States_Senate_elections_in_Maryland.
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- United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Maryland,_1913 comment "A Special Election to the United States Senate was held in Maryland on November 4, 1913 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sen. Isidor Rayner (a Democrat). The election was historic in that it was the first Senate election held under the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which required direct election of senators. Blair Lee I, a Democrat and former state senator, became the first U.S.".
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